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"A half truth is a whole lie." — Yiddish Proverb On December 2nd, 2021, a study published on medRxiv (pre-print) found that: "Population-level evidence suggests that the Omicron variant is associated with substantial ability to evade immunity...

Today’s politicians are much like the blind men who “saw” the elephant in John Godfrey Saxe’s classic poem. ...

A study published today in the American Medical Association's journal JAMA Psychiatry reports that patients whose antipsychotic treatment was reduced or di

Today, a fearful and apprehensive world awaits its fate at the hands of the CPC

Today, a fearful and apprehensive world awaits its fate at the hands of the CPC

Code red for humanity. That's how UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has described the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Working Group 1 Report issued earlier this week. "This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet," he asserted.

The Blind Men and the Elephant Look for the deeper meaning to this poem. The author is anonymous. Enjoy! It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined (Though all of them were blind). That each by observation And happening to fall At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho! what have we here so very round and smooth and sharp? To me tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!" The Third a...

What comes after post-truth? Weaponized fantasy By January 31, 2021 I would rather have questions that cant be answered than answers that cant be questioned. – Richard P. Feynman Its funny, isnt it? The ones who, only moments ago, were screeching, "There is no such thing as truth!" are now enforcing "truth." Postmodernism was always an absurdity; a punchline. The proposition refutes itself: "Nothing is true" cannot be a true statement, by its own definition. And yet we had some very educ...

. (These proposals subsequently failed.) The net difference between those two views is well over $150 billion dollars in a single year. In an ideal world, the defense budget debate would be fact-based and informed. Of course, no one should be under any illusion that final defense budgets spring fully formed from dispassionate strategic analyses. The last word on defense spending always results from the clash of strategic thought and the reigning political environment. In the United States, suc...