By multiple measures, U.S. access to medical care lags behind that in other developed countries. Pediatrician and medical school professor Aaron Carroll talks about that here: Link: https://youtu.be/RyWsga1P3VQ For more on this, see Dr Carroll’s article in The New York … Continue reading
The April issue of AARP Bulletin has an interesting chart (which unfortunately doesn’t seem to be available on line) breaking down healthcare spending in the United States in terms of where the money comes from and where it goes. A … Continue reading
Years ago I read about an experiment to see whether college students were receptive to supposed evidence (in reality made up for the study) contradicting their existing beliefs (credulous or not) about paranormal phenomena. Skeptics proved more willing than believers … Continue reading
A lot of news coverage this past week has taken note of Trump’s policy reversals, several of which Trump himself has attributed to learning things he didn’t know. For example, during the campaign he declared that it would be easy … Continue reading
A rape kit holds evidence collected in a hospital from the victim of a sexual assault. It includes physical evidence, photographs, and medical notes, and most critically it often contains DNA of the perpetrator of the crime. Collecting rape kit … Continue reading
In this video from last week, YouTuber Brian Keith Dalton reviews things Trump has done since taking office that Hillary Clinton clearly wouldn’t have. This is mainly addressed to people who still try to pretend that there’s no big difference … Continue reading
Back in November Kurt Eichenwald wrote a piece for Newsweek titled “The Myths Democrats Swallowed That Cost Them The Presidential Election.” It makes for interesting reading, but what particularly struck me was the opening: On Friday, I almost assaulted a … Continue reading
Through the magic of post-production, President Trump’s press secretary has a duet with a couple of Muppets: Link: https://youtu.be/ARCJMFXHalo And on the outside chance you haven’t seen it yet, here’s Mr Spicer’s second appearance on SNL: Link: https://youtu.be/fbhz3XcNzGU by … Continue reading
The chief aim of terrorism, as its name implies, is to instill fear, and a lot of us have inadvertently aided the bad guys by exaggerating the threat. Of course, this isn’t to say that terrorism is nothing to worry … Continue reading
On Thursday the North Carolina legislature finally repealed the state’s notorious “bathroom bill,” also known as HB2. It was unfortunately not a clean repeal, in that the new law reimposes some objectionable restrictions. But it does at least do away … Continue reading