Basic information on how culture works, respect for knowledge, and understanding of science is sorely missing from today’s world. Even those who purportedly are educated people doing science or creating complex global policies do not understand even the basic concepts of social science. We cannot fight ignorance with ignorance… for oh so many reasons. Social science does […]
You Knew A Rant Was Coming!
Why are people so stupid? Why do people support actions and people that work against there own interests? They do you know. It is a Horatio Alger thing. Only smart people will get that reference. Well, I chalk it up (maybe I should say chuck it up) to evolution. Yep. Most people, even really educated […]
Everything Old Is New Again…Like Measles. Part 2
The current outbreak of measles in a Texas community unfortunately illustrates where group-think based in ignorance, power over children to the detriment of those children, and ridicule of non-believers that keeps members in check can lead. I wrote about this yesterday in conjunction with Shot@Life, an international campaign to vaccinate and immunize the world’s children. […]
Everything Old Is New Again…Like Measles. Part 1
I’m writing this as a reminder to myself and others about what we as a people, as humanity, know, and what we should act upon. This post started out as a rant, but the rant will be in Part 2 as tomorrow’s post, and the action item is today’s post. The outbreak of measles in […]