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.
Category: Renewables – Science
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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Tagged with: Distort the Truth
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. …
Tagged with: no cure for COVID-19
Martin Luther: We Are Responsible for Protecting Ourselves and Others from Disease–Of Course, Things Have Changed
Well, these may have been sage words when they were written in the late 15th Century. But that was more the 500 years before tens of millions of conspiracy theorists decided that our media, our medical institutions, and the governments …
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Marcus Aurelius Speaks on “Opinion”
It’s hard not to have an extremely high regard for Marcus Aurelius, a man of peace and honor, and arguably the most famous of the Stoic philosophers. What he says here wouldn’t have raised any eyebrows before now, where, suddenly, …
In a World Gone Insane, Some Things Still Make Sense
From this: A new NPR analysis reveals that since May of this year, people living in counties that voted for Donald Trump have been almost three times as likely to die from Covid-19 than those living in counties that Joe Biden won. NPR published its findings on Sunday …
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Tagged with: people who resist vaccinations
Trusting Vs. Questioning Science
This is a good example of the logical fallacy called “equivocation,” which means using the same word in two different senses. For example, “Good steaks are rare these days, so be sure not to get yours overcooked.” Scientists should question …
“Real America Is Done with COVID-19”
Almost half the country lives in a fairyland in which reason and intelligence have ceased to matter. The irony here, of course, is that Jordan is referring to the anti-vaxxers as “real America,” where the precise opposite is the case. …
Tagged with: anti-vaxxers
Predictably, Oklahoma Announces Deeper Cuts To Education
Oklahoma should cut its educational programs like a starving man needs to go on a diet. It’s already among the states in which Trump did best; it’s hard to imagine why these people need to become even more ignorant. Coincidentally, …
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COVID Disinformation
A reader sent me the chart here, noting that Facebook had labelled it “false information.” He adds, “I guess they don’t like the fact that people are indeed surviving COVID.” I respond: I think the reason that FB called this false …
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