I am an unabashed scientismist. Scientism is often derogatorally described as an overuse, over confidence in science, and an arrogant refusal to see there are other “ways of knowing” usually Continue Reading →
6/22/2021: Israel with 9 million citizens, 55% of whom are fully vaccinated, is experiencing a COVID “surge” of 125 new cases/day – and they’re jumping into action against the new Continue Reading →
Florida has a bit over 21 million people, Texas about just about 30 and California almost 40 million residents as of 2019. Texas and Florida’s Republican governors (Greg Abbot and Continue Reading →
The End of Science (1996) -by the science journalist John Horgan. Mr. Horgan, reflecting on his controversial characterization of the state of modern science, 20 years later from its first Continue Reading →
The 18-29 year olds, the folks I mostly teach, GEN Z, born 1990- to early 2010’s literally shocked the pollster reporting his findings on a recent segment of MORNING JOE. Continue Reading →
I wrote back in July comparing Arizona and Florida to Vietnam, and how badly our US states fared in coronavirus response to Vietnam and other Asian countries. Then in September, Continue Reading →
The map above shows the US states color coded by COVID infection rate per 100,000 residents as of early March 2021. The darkest purple states: So. Dakota, No. Dakota, and Continue Reading →
The USNS hospital ship Comfort arrives in New York harbor in March, 2020, indicative of the out of control COVID-19 outbreak in the US that is still accelerating nation-wide as Continue Reading →
New York ER doctor, Steven MacDonald, in an Oct.17th Yahoo Finance “The Ticker” interview notes a significant fact regarding the peculiar spread of the coronavirus since summer: “To the extent Continue Reading →
I first started blogging about the virus in July in The Virus and the States. Little bitty Mississippi was then just starting to bust out with its HUGE coronavirus explosion. Continue Reading →
