Category Archives: Medical care in the US

Your regular “Does anything good ever come out of the south?” news

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: “We’re going to start slitting throats on day one,” said presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, who in an interview also insisted that enslaved Americans learned useful, transferable skills, such as blacksmithing, and that “Joe Biden’s the president.”  … Continue reading →

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The logic of polls and polled populace responses

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Naomi

Got this from Harper’s June 2023 Index. Hang on, it’s a ride: Percentage of U.S. adults who say there is too little government spending on education: 65. Percentage of U.S. adults who say there is too little government spending on … Continue reading →

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Who rejects allopathic* medicine? Quacks

Posted on July 13, 2023 by Naomi

*Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, is an archaic and derogatory label originally used by 19th-century homeopaths to describe heroic medicine, the precursor of modern evidence-based medicine. — Wikipedia My mom used to slam the term “quack” on any practitioner of non-scientific … Continue reading →

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