It’s hard to overstate the importance of public safety in a world in which variants of COVID-19 continue to rage. Back in the old days, few people attached any real significance to issues like this. When my wife became pregnant …
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Big Money and U.S. Healthcare
A reader sent me this. Looking up the guy, I have to believe that this was a real and true statement of a licensed physician. My response: Does big money have undue influence in U.S. healthcare? Obviously. Is Dr. Mendelsohn’s suggestion …
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Arrogant Americans Couldn’t Care Less about Scientific Truth
In America, we glorify ignorance. We can’t get enough of it. We bathe ourselves in it. As Isaac Asimov put it: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism …
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Many of Us Can Relate to Today’s Doonesbury
Today’s strip is below. I have a feeling most readers who live in red regions of the country have had some sort of experience like this. Around here, a trip to the grocery store, or God help you, the liquor …
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Religion in the United States
The graph here is from the Pew Research Center. I would speculate on many different causes, and suggest that it’s probably a combination. • Evangelicals are terrifying people. Hypocrisy is everywhere. • Despite the anti-vaxxers and/or QAnon, respect for science …
We’re At War
So much conflict going on in the United States today. Kellogg’s and Amazon vs. their employees, January 6th commission vs. insurrection planners, and, of course, anti-vaxxers vs. public health. As reported in the meme here, the U.S. Air Force isn’t …
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School’s Not for Everyone, But …..
I’ll be the first to admit that K – 12 (elementary and high school) is not right for everyone, and that certainly includes people with IQs in the 190 – 215 range. Those who have been given great intellectual power are …
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The Pandemic: Questioning the Science
A reader sent me this and notes: You must simply comply! Do not question the authorities, do not not concern yourself with opposing views or you will be censored and ridiculed. Sounds like communism to (sic) all right.
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Good People Don’t Deliberately Distort the Truth
A right-wing reader sent me this. OMG, that sounds awful. Googling it, I found that Salk did actually say this. Then I started to wonder how many cases of polio there have been since 1961, and I found the graph …
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Ignorance Won’t Help Us Control the Pandemic
Pessimists believe we’re doomed, and many of them would cite the meme here as evidence. Think for a moment, if you will, how miserably ill-informed you’d need to be to post the meme here. There is no cure for COVID-19. …
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