LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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Passage from Carl Saganโs 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states โ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When youโre in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but thereโs another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my childrenโs or grandchildrenโs time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and whatโs true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
More true every day
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A doctorโs letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo
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