The implication here is that the sane response to COVID-19 was to ignore what our scientists were telling us about it. COVID is gone (at least for now) because enough people acquired a sufficient degree of immunity to the disease, …
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Selling Garbage to Idiots Has Opened Up Huge New Markets
You might think there is no upside to the demise of the American educational system and the accompanying spike in ignorance. You’d be wrong. It’s made possible a market for products that have no real value. Cunning entrepreneurs are making …
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Returning to the Dark Ages?
Is our planet regressing deep into its bloody past? No. Fortunately, the rejection of science is almost nonexistent outside the United States. You won’t find other people in the developed world believing that the pandemic was a government plot or …
Trump Supporters Are in the Minority, But ….
Let’s assume that this guy is exactly right, and the number is 30% on the nose. But we need to keep in mind that it’s unequally distributed around the 50 states, so you’re going to have places like the Deep …
Is Education the Path to Enslavement?
In the days of antiquity, the victors in wars enslaved the people in the countries they had vanquished. Now, at least according to the meme here, slaves are made in our universities. Reading the world’s great books, asking (and attempting …
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We Have Severed Our Relationship with the Truth
As suggested at left, the truth used to be a big deal to our society. The motto of Harvard University, arguably our nation’s most prestigious institute of learning, is veritas, signifying that truth is something worth a considerable investment on …
One Never Knows
I thought this was funny, though I wonder if its author was serious, and used the graphic here to encourage moron investors to come onboard.
How Your Home Address Correlates to Longevity
Of course, correlation does not imply causation, but common sense suggests that affluence, education, and acceptance of science contribute to longevity. Conversely, ignorance, poor diet and poverty are silent killers. Other minor points: Stay away from Sin City (Las Vegas). …
A Note on Atheism
The meme here is just another, and equally clever way of saying, “A person who is good because he’s worrying about being sent to hell for all eternity is just a bad person on a leash.” I didn’t write either …
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Who Gets Saved From Perdition, and Why?
A reader asked me if I feel sorry for the billions of people believed to be burning in hell because they had the bad luck to be born on this Earth before the birth of Christ, and thus were unable …
