Who among us hasn’t looked upon a certain development in our culture and said, OK, that’s it; we’re effed. Reader James sent me this, and, I have to say, it brought me that much closer to that most cynical of …
Category: Renewables – Science
COVID Hospitalization Policies
I happen to know the president of a major university in Texas, who told me he can’t understand why hospitals that are overflowing don’t put a percentage limit on the number of ICU beds that they will fill with unvaccinated …
Love Those Metaphors
We are a culture that enjoys creating metaphors to help us make our points. Some of these are better, i.e., more accurate, than others. This guy’s work here is fabulous, IMO.
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Things Go In and Out of Fashion
When we look at the morass our society finds itself in, we need to hope that our rejection of science and affection for conmen is simply a fad that will one day simply disappear. After all, it is possible that …
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Anti-Vaxxers Are Getting Even More Dug In
The ugly part of dealing with the anti-vaxxers is that there are so many different flavors of them. One such sort are the religionists, who believe: “Faith, not fear.” The most extreme view in this category is that those who …
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Senior Epidemiologist Speaking on COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has morphed to the point where we have a fairly mild but extremely transmissible disease. What’s next? No one knows. At least, that’s what my old school chum and now extremely senior epidemiologist Peter Spitzer, MD says. …
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“I Do My Own Research.” No You Don’t
A reader sent me the meme here. What he appears not to understand is that people without scientific training are incapable of performing scientific research. Most hairdressers and swimming instructors are fine people, but the very highest they’ll be able …
Dealing with the Pandemic
Scientists hope the omicron variant of COVID-19 takes us to the point of herd immunity and becomes a manageable, albeit permanent, feature of human society, like the flu. The graphic here illustrates part of the challenge, however. Decent people are …
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Guardian Journalist Nails American Loss of Capacity to Think
Well, Hugo, you’ve nailed precisely how deeply implanted in abject stupidity we people across the pond are. We have lost the ability to process information.
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Becoming a Mystic
I believe it’s possible to have spiritual apprehension of knowledge that is not accessible to the intellect. In fact, I’ll be surprised if some form of spirituality doesn’t come into play as scientists finally wrap their wits around the nature …
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