Hi Phil, the root of the anti truth and anti science movement can be placed directly within the realm of higher education. Today, our university students are forced to take liberal arts classes, 'x' studies, that are not based in fact, but are actually based on ideology. Having been forced to swallow the ideology that is based on a philosophy that is post truth and logic (post modernism) which deconstructs statements of fact (the man is at the door) into statements based on the classes subjective narrative (the white man at the door wishes to subjugate me), it should be no surprise that science gets placed into the same category in their minds as reason and logic, tools used by the white male patriarchy to dominate women and minorities. In our era of post truth, should we not be suspicious when we're forced to believe that narratives such as anthropomorphic run away climate change are true? 2+2 = 5 Phil. Believe it.

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why? b/c it takes a lot of energy & unless that is zero carbon...brine free...
we need negative population growth

liberal arts college require all the departments except business classes - we wouldn't want grads to know how they are being screwed right out the gate

I went to the first Earth Day April 22, 1970, at UMD as a senior at A.D.Johnston H.S. in Bessemer, Mich.,they bused all the seniors there, best thing the school ever did.

Analytical or critical thinking has died. For example, CO2 constitutes 0.04% of the atmosphere with nature providing the bulk of the gas. That's 4 one hundredths of one percent or 1 part per 2500. So if you have one person in a crowd of 2500 walking in the same direction At same pace and that person begins to push, the whole crowd walks faster? I don't understand how that's possible.

Yes, a very good read.

I agree with everything written in this article. Send it to the White House. ( It will disappear )

Thank you for speaking out. It's refreshing to hear from a doctor that's actually looking a the situation and willing to speak honestly about it.

and I dare you do venture into anesthesia

RE: Another conspiracy theory entrenched in the minds of people who should know better;

After writing several rebuttals in response to the pseudo-science and dubious sources of information used by Dr. Gary Kohls to advance his anti-vaccine dogma, I thought that I was done with that effort. But, Well, Gary is at it again—continuing to reference erroneous graphs that are designed to distort and diminish the well-established science which confirms the extremely important role that vaccinations have always played in preventing diseases like the Measles and Polio. Below is a graph Gary Kohls includes as proof that the measles were almost entirely eradicated by other health care advances—such as sanitation, nutrition, labor laws, electricity, chlorination, and refrigeration—all of which he lists (apparently), to prove that modern day Doctors, researchers, and specialist in the fields of vaccinology are all wrong etc., So, why is Gary mistaken?—well, in that none of these factors have ever been denied or ignored by medical professionals who study infectious diseases—Not at all! And not ever! In fact, established medicine lists the dangerous side effects of the measles—such as encephalitis, extreme hydration, ear infections, pneumonia, and even blindness—very openly. Yet here is a graph which Gary uses to deny the successful history of vaccines—one which was posted as part of his latest meme, posted on the Duluth Reader’s website:






Notice that there are small portions of text at the bottom of the graph above, apparently used to attribute the information in the graph to an actual source, Yet the words cannot be read well even if one zooms the image to more than twice its size. However, the name of the person who compiled the graph can be seen—one Suzanne Humphries—whose credential are not nearly as solid as Gary implies.

Before getting into Humphries qualifications, let me point out other disparities in the charts Kohls uses above.

First of all, Humphries graph measures the number of measles “deaths” per 100,000 of the general population, and the chart used by the CDC, reports the (total numbers of measles cases) in the US. Humphries chart begins in 1838, when a host of helpful things Gary mentioned were beginning to greatly reduce the number of deaths caused by the measles and other diseases. However, the CDC chart begins in 1950 with 300,000 cases of the measles that were known to exist in that year, well after the long period of time before improved heath measures began to reduce large numbers of Measles cases! So, Gary is clearly wrong in claiming that health improvements alone completely wiped out the disease! Do 300,000 remaining cases prove that improved health measures virtually eliminated the measles all by themselves?

There are differences in defending the legitimacy of Kohls charts—and analyzing the effects of (all known cases of the measles) any given time, (Which is shown in the CDC’s graphs)! In nearly every infectious disease known to man, the number of deaths caused by them is always much less than the number of cases)—which is self-explanatory! The fact that less people have died, than have become infected, (as illustrated in the more recent graph compiled by the CDC), accurately depicts the continuing large numbers of measles cases (after 1950), compared to the numbers of measles deaths, (per 100,000) depicted in Gary’s graph. The relevance of this unmentioned but false equivalence, is important, because infectious diseases may still threaten human health due to the nasty side-effects they (rarely) cause.

Obviously, large numbers of “cases” may also involve serious side effects, even though Suzanne Humphries graph, depicts the number of actual measles deaths as being nearly non-existent by 1953—something that is just not true! But serious health threats from the measles are far from over! The CDC map makes clear, that there were 300,000 cases of measles in 1950, which then shot up to more than 700,000 cases by approximately 1956 or 1957!—when the number of actual cases increased by more than 400,000 in six or seven years—proving that despite earlier improvements in sanitation, nutrition, and chlorination, for example, the actual numbers of measles cases were still here, and still capable of skyrocketing--until 1963, and then in 1968—when changes occurred in declining numbers--after the live measles vaccine was introduced in 1968 and the numbers of measles cases began to drop rapidly. As one can see, the stats compiled by those who have long kept track of infectious diseases, (the CDC), indicate that measles had fallen to approximately 20,000 cases by 1968—a decrease of 480,000 cases in only about five years, (after the live measles vaccine was also introduced) and later, after MMR vaccinations were used used to halt the spread of Measles, Mumps and Rubella). Soon after, the number of cases all but disappeared from 1980 until 1989 to 1991, when a small upturn developed, but was easily eliminated with double doses of vaccine!







It’s also important to note that Gary’s graph covering the period from 1838 to 1978 is visually weighted on the left side by comparing the very long period of progress needed to eliminate a large numbers of Measles deaths via conventional improvements in sanitation etc., (which Gary claims did the entire job)—while the CDC graph illustrates the reduction in cases during a much shorter period of time after 1950, and when vaccines began to be used — So the differences between the actual numbers of (deaths) caused by the measles and the reduction in actual numbers of (cases) that occurred , make Humphries graph look way more impressive than it is. In truth vaccinations were absolutely needed to finish the job because hundreds of thousands of cases still existed even after 1950—proving that improved health care measures did not wipe out all cases, which only dropped considerably after 1963—in response to vaccinations.


More about Humphries supposed qualification to be an expert in the use of vaccines, at this website:

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2011/02/16/dr-suzanne-humphries-and-the-internation/

Here’s how she describes her credentials;

“I am a Medical Doctor with credentials in internal medicine and nephrology (kidneys). I received a bachelor’s degree in theoretical physics in 1987 from Rutgers University. I mention the college degree in case any doubtful readers question my mental prowess. One can doubt my intellectual ability less if they first realize that I know how to figure out difficult things. I know how to look at something in depth for many hours or days until I understand the inner workings of it. This is what I learned to do in college. In fact the strenuous mind-bending exercise that was part of the physics curriculum made medical school easy. I found the study of the human body, chemistry and biology to be in comparison quite shallow, simple and easy to comprehend.”

Well, my word!--a kidney specialist with a degree in theoretical physics? How could anyone suspect that she is not the world’s foremost authority on vaccines? And she sincerely states that she knows how to figure out difficult things! So why should we believe her? Of course! Because like Putin, she has told us so? How could anyone ask more of a real, genuine scientist?

Peter W. Johnson
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Superior, WI. 54880
Phone 715-395-0008

The web links to the graph used by Gary and the one from the CDC were somehow set up to deny me access to them.

Pete

Don Brewer did NOT write "American Band". Farner did. Brewer asked him if he could have writing credit for it as he never had a song credited to just himself. Brewer didn't even come up with the drum intro... Farner did that to... including the cowbell. Brewer didn't even own a cowbell. Farner is GFR.

Phil, I think this all depends on who you are, and it's not fair to say we all need union jobs. While unions did an amazing things for some labor, generally working for large employers, and trade unions support those who do skilled work, It's best that you don't disparage professional positions. White collar STEM and Finance jobs are filled by people who learn skills in College (as opposed to those who take up space....) and are comparable to trade jobs. While many entry level employees do work long ours, many experienced professionals do it out of passion for the work (programmers and engineers, for example) and are compensated for that extra effort. This is a different world from trades and labor where your individual abilities and effort are NOT counted favorably and generally frowned upon. Anyway, it would be best if all of us from the dishwasher on the labor side, to the neurosurgeon on the professional side would agree that we are similar in more ways than we are different, and should work together so that those of us who WORK for a WAGE get treated fairly, rather than the union folks carving out their space and blaming professionals for wanting to work hard to achieve success.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan

Someday people will feel this way regarding climate alarmism.

And the left is in bed with the Pharmacutical industry which is far responsible for the problems in this country than any Right-wing extremist.

Contributors Note; Much as I had suspected, sometime between writing this article and MN Wild players reporting to camp today, Fiala signed a 2 year deal with the club yesterday. It has been reported to 2years/$6mil. Players will hit the ice tomorrow...

It's almost like Forrest exists in his own little Echo closet. Trumps going to win in 2020 Forrest, you've been wrong about sooo much in the past 3 years.

I dunno Kyle, maybe because those nice windy summer days are few and far between? It's not like you can just walk outside and wish for wind. In VR you don't have to.... but thanks for creating a nice analogy about why people prefer it over Real Life.

thanks for your expertise