May 9The Ideal Form of Government: Jury DemocracyWhat would be the ideal form of government? I think it would be one where every adult citizen or registered voter is fully informed...
May 7Alone in this race, I favor your right to control your body.Politico reported this past week that a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court suggests the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade...
May 7Henry Aaron was better than Willie MaysI will take a break from COVID, Jury Democracy, and the governor race to opine on this controversial topic. Joe Posnanski is the best...
Apr 4U.S. Senate Votes 100 to 0 For a Bad IdeaThe U.S. Senate unanimously--yes, unanimously--passed a bill to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. Here's the story:...
Apr 4Kicked Out of My Church for Standing Up for the Downtrodden by Refusing to Wear a MaskImmediately after a wonderful sermon preaching that we should all get along and maskers and anti-maskers should stop hating each other,...
Apr 4Vaccine Mandates are Absolutely InsaneThere is no logical basis for requiring vaccination against COVID to travel or enter a restaurant or work in any context. I get a little...
Apr 4Data and Logic Suggest the Vaccinated Are MORE Likely to Infect Others Than the UnvaccinatedThe arguments that we should require or even encourage vaccination for COVID of people who do not want to get vaccinated, or that one has...
Apr 4Voting Rights: Democrats Should Take Republicans Up on Their OfferThe Democrats’ Freedom to Vote Act in the Senate, which was agreed to by all Democratic Senators, would do these things: Establish...
Apr 4Big Tech Must Be Reined In or Preferably DestroyedAn opinion piece by Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation with the title “Big Tech Has Become an Enemy of the People” appeared today...
Apr 4Masks Result in Breathing CO2 Levels Five Times More Than the Legal Workplace LimitWearing a mask significantly increases CO2 concentration we breathe and significantly decreases oxygen concentrations we breathe, and...
Apr 4This Is Over. We Will Be At Herd Immunity By March. We will be at herd immunity when the Omicron wave subsides by about the end of February. In prior posts I calculated that prior infection...
Apr 4Natural Immunity From Infection Is Far Superior to VaccinationPrior infection with COVID-19 gives much, much better immunity than vaccination. But the powers that be certainly don't want you to know...
Apr 4Is It Courteous to Wear a Mask?Many people feel that the courteous or considerate thing to do during this pandemic is to wear a mask around others, since even if it...
Apr 4Prior Infection Gives Far Better Immunity Than Vaccination Against Both Delta and Omicron StrainsIn my previous blog post I analyzed the data from the British government disclosed in Ferguson et al., along with South African data in...
Apr 4The Omicron Strain Is About as Deadly as the Common ColdThe previous post on evolution brings us to the Delta and now Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. A strain...
Apr 4COVID and Evolution: It was always going to get more contagious and less deadlySince I am a biologist and know how viruses evolve, I never paid much attention to the scary pronouncements from the authorities that the...
Apr 4We deliberately broke the legs of children for a superstition it would somehow benefit 80-year-olds.The Minneapolis StarTribune reported on Oct. 5 the headline “Pediatric Psych Unit a Response to COVID.” The story read: “Children’s...
Apr 4Teenage Boys 4 to 6 Times More Likely to Be Seriously Harmed by Vaccine Than COVID Interesting paper came out recently calculating that teenage boys are 4 to 6 times more likely to be hospitalized because of myocarditis...
Apr 4Is the Fall of Afghanistan a Harbinger of the Soon End of the United States?A couple of fantastic blog posts I found. You won't find this stuff in the New York Times. The first is by Malcom Kyeyune, whom I was...