The Ideal Form of Government: Jury Democracy
What would be the ideal form of government? I think it would be one where every adult citizen or registered voter is fully informed...
- May 7
Alone 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 7
Henry Aaron was better than Willie Mays
I will take a break from COVID, Jury Democracy, and the governor race to opine on this controversial topic. Joe Posnanski is the best...
- Apr 4
U.S. Senate Votes 100 to 0 For a Bad Idea
The U.S. Senate unanimously--yes, unanimously--passed a bill to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. Here's the story:...
- Apr 4
Kicked Out of My Church for Standing Up for the Downtrodden by Refusing to Wear a Mask
Immediately after a wonderful sermon preaching that we should all get along and maskers and anti-maskers should stop hating each other,...
- Apr 4
Vaccine Mandates are Absolutely Insane
There 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 4
Data and Logic Suggest the Vaccinated Are MORE Likely to Infect Others Than the Unvaccinated
The 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 4
Voting Rights: Democrats Should Take Republicans Up on Their Offer
The Democrats’ Freedom to Vote Act in the Senate, which was agreed to by all Democratic Senators, would do these things: Establish...
- Apr 4
Big Tech Must Be Reined In or Preferably Destroyed
An opinion piece by Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation with the title “Big Tech Has Become an Enemy of the People” appeared today...
- Apr 4
Masks Result in Breathing CO2 Levels Five Times More Than the Legal Workplace Limit
Wearing a mask significantly increases CO2 concentration we breathe and significantly decreases oxygen concentrations we breathe, and...
- Apr 4
This 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 4
Natural Immunity From Infection Is Far Superior to Vaccination
Prior infection with COVID-19 gives much, much better immunity than vaccination. But the powers that be certainly don't want you to know...
- Apr 4
Is 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 4
Prior Infection Gives Far Better Immunity Than Vaccination Against Both Delta and Omicron Strains
In my previous blog post I analyzed the data from the British government disclosed in Ferguson et al., along with South African data in...
- Apr 4
The Omicron Strain Is About as Deadly as the Common Cold
The 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 4
COVID and Evolution: It was always going to get more contagious and less deadly
Since I am a biologist and know how viruses evolve, I never paid much attention to the scary pronouncements from the authorities that the...
- Apr 4
We 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 4
Teenage 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 4
Is 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...