Health and Sanity category archive

Laurie Roberts reports on the Arizona state legislature’s decision to convene a coterie of COVID charlatans “examine federal, state and local efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.” She is not sanguine.

Here’s a tiny bit from her article; follow the link for her reasoning.

Looking at the lineup of elected leaders and “expert panelists” — not to mention the cryptic callout to QAnon — I’m guessing this august study group won’t be examining the nexus between Arizona’s low vaccination rate and our highest-in-the-nation death rate. One that rivals Peru.

Rebecca Watson discusses the campaign of Robert Kennedy, Jr., a long-time anti-vaxxer, for the Democratic presidential nomination. An excerpt:

But Donald Trump proved that we absolutely cannot sit back and assume someone is too ridiculous to win the presidency.

. . . or you can read the transcript.

Rebecca Watson discusses a study that indicates that, when a scientific journal and individual scientists endorsed Biden over Trump, Trump, Trump supporters reacted by trusting scientists (and science) less. Here’s a bit of what she says:

The truth does not matter to these people, because Tucker Carlson already told them something and they’ve built their entire personalities around it. They are, for the most part, unreachable by facts alone. It’s not impossible to change these people’s minds, but we absolutely will not find a statistically significant result by throwing reality at them and seeing if they immediately change their minds. About ANYTHING that is even tangentially related to politics, which is anything that the talking heads tell them on Newsmax.

Or you can read the transcript.

Who coulda knowed?

We need a vaccine against lies and lying liars on the Disinformation Superhighway.

. . . and become the pathway for perfidious propaganda putting you in peril

At the Idaho State Journal, Jesse Robison makes the case that our health care system does one thing very, very well.

Dr. Rishi Manchanda said it well, “We have a health care system almost perfectly designed to create debt.”

And create debt it does: According to a February 2022 Consumer Credit Report, Americans are carrying $88 billion in medical debt, and that number is significantly underreported. Over 20 percent of U.S. adults have medical debt. Excessive medical costs are the primary cause of bankruptcy in America partially caused by deceptive Swiss cheese insurance policies.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

Sam and his crew dissect the latest lie from the anti-VAX idiots.

Sam and his crew dissect another lie from James O’Keefe’s inaptly named Project Veritas.

Thom discusses examples of false equivalencies in recent weeks.