Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
For some, not taking the vaccine and not wearing a mask was very much a political / religious statement of defiance. While a hard core took a solid stance, there was, and still is, a far wider majority carried along by that utterly crazy bit of social insanity. I’m making a couple of assumptions here. … Read more
Give it some thought and you will perhaps appreciate that the advantages of a well-funded public media are abundant. Commercial media is driven by a profit motive. They are literally motivated to provide content that keeps us constantly enraged so that we remain hooked to them and thus generate revenue via advertising income. That is … Read more
The term “Fox News Viewer” generally is a quip deployed to describe people who are completely decoupled from reality and instead live within a carefully crafted bubble of disinformation. Everybody knows this, apart from Fox News viewers, it is not exactly a state secret. What made recent headlines on April 4 were a couple of … Read more
There have been media stories that report that even mild COVID infections can impact the human brain. I don’t simply mean the tabloids, but also reputable sources such as Reuters have run this. For example … Reuters in Early March : COVID-19 can cause brain shrinkage, memory loss – study Permit me to quote the … Read more
Study reveals Spanish Inquisition impact upon modern society. Areas with most persecution are today poorer, less educated, and more religious
Recently published study reveals that the human toll of CO2 emissions will vastly magnify climate change’s economic costs