Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
What happened is well known. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday Aug 5th that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted. But why? There is a quick easy answer – RFK Jnr is an anti-vaccine crank. His appointment more or less guaranteed that stuff like … Read more
So what has the newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services been up to? If only the answer to that was dull and boring, but alas as a renowned anti-vaccine and whacky conspiracy theorist, that is unfortunately not the case. “wild whacky stuff” is really not what anybody ever wants to hear from the … Read more
As we age our cognitive abilities may become impacted. Our ability to remember, to think, and to reason may decline and worsen over time. The word “Dementia” describes symptoms such as the following … This can lead to personality changes, depression, anxiety, and more. In most cases the root cause is not reversible, and so … Read more
Yes that headline is real, but before we get into it, I first have a few thoughts. In normal times you might occasionally come across something that motivates you to go WTF! or similar. These days are not normal times, and so such encounters are sadly becoming not just daily but almost hourly now. I … Read more
For the short answer, the TL;DR; version, the answer is potentially yes, but don’t panic … yet. COVID is now thankfully under control due to our ability to rapidly create and distribute vaccines that worked very well. It caught many by surprise because it rapidly emerged and spread, and so people are now appropriately conscious … Read more
OK, let’s start with the quick TL;DR; version – No, RFK Jnr is wrong about vaccine skepticism, he is a crackpot. I really should not need to publish any of this … but hey, for what are obvious reasons, here we are. RFK Jnr has long deep dark history of promoting utterly absurd non-scientific BS. … Read more
