People think you’re a little crazy if you really like going in for surgery because it’s like Disneyland and you’re in Tomorrowland. It’s an E ticket ride, as the geezers say, and you’re on the ride and the last thing you’ll remember is the anesthesiologist telling you he’s giving something to relax you and you […]
This kitty litter was a game changer, the cat litter guy said. A game changer, cat litter? I sighed and switched channels. Hockey news. Guy scores one, two, three times, flipped the lead, a blow out. The commentator calls him a dynamite player, a game changer. I sighed and switched the channel, and then I […]
Respect for the scientific method is little to be found anywhere in the popular culture, with the possible exception of what is simple and dramatic — dinosaurs! Witness the anti-vaccination movement as a particularly depressing example. It doesn’t help that modern physics has produced “theories” which belie the term by being merely elegant mathematical games, which are not testable against reality. Then there’s the fact that we have to have “equal time” for “both sides” (as if every question of fact was divisible into 50% yes and 50% no, instead of one side having overwhelming evidence.)
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