“Balanced” Reporting
The cartoon here describes the essence of the conversation my mom and I have, when, for instance, anti-vaxxers show up on Fox News. Mom asks me, “Don’t any of these commentators have credentials you respect?”
My reply is that the vast majority of epidemiologists are telling us that vaccines are safe and effective, and, to the degree that there is noncompliance, COVID-19 will be that much more lethal, and will cripple our society for that much longer. The fact that Fox News can find one guy with an MD degree who stands opposed to this broad consensus does not change anything.
Obviously, the case is the same with climate change. I know there are a few climate deniers with PhDs, and I don’t doubt that Fox News can find one to interview on camera. But the vast majority of those who honestly and objectively study this subject hold valid the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
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Here’s a company looking for investors. And who wouldn’t jump at a chance? They claim to have solved a very real problem, i.e., how to 
It would be impossible to list all the forms of damage that the re-election of Donald Trump would inflict on the United States.
I laughed when I saw this because I have many times asserted that Trump’s opponents don’t carry on with lavish public displays about their political belief like the former president’s supporters.
There is no doubt that Washington has its bureaucrats, but what it doesn’t have is a commanding majority of the right-wing extremists we find in the red states. There is precious little support in Congress, and even less in the electorate, for the federal criminalization of abortion, teaching creationism as science, or an energy policy that guarantees the consumption of fossil fuels in perpetuity, and the slow death of most of the Earth’s life forms.
As suggested here, the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump is based exclusively on testimony from Republicans.
From this interview with 
There are so many disgusting elements of Trumpism that it’s hard to know where to start.
If we still have an organized civilization here on Earth 100 years from now, we’ll have many people to thank, one of which will be David Attenborough, whose work has done so much to raise public consciousness about the fragility of nature and the need to act responsibly.
