Baffled European

Tag: annexation

  • Texas sharpshooter fallacy

    Rain here at last. First time this month, we really needed it. It’s not enough, but at least it hasn’t forgotten how to rain.

    Meanwhile, over in the USA, measles is spreading in eighteen states. Doctors are telling people to get vaccinated, but they are shouting into the wind. Decades of undermining medicine and science are paying off.

    RFK is again responsible for this. But good news, he’s found somebody to lead his vanity project which will definitively establish the link between vaccination and autism.

    This man is David Geyer. He has no experience in research, clinical or otherwise. He does however have medical experience, at least he did until they took his licence away. That was for lying about his credentials, and maltreating autistic children.

    The last point is the clue. It’s depressing looking through his record. You can extrapolate the entire anti-vax movement just by looking at his madness. Now RFK has got somebody who knows the conclusion to the study, all they have to do is find the evidence to fit.

    So typical for the new administration. Loyalty and ideological purity are the watchwords here. Here we have them wasting a lot of money and the expertise of what remains of the CDC in order to prove a logical fallacy.

    All of this and then I read that JD Vance is now calling bullets “freedom seeds”. They are insane, the lot of them.

  • +3° cannot be avoided

    We’ve been having a dry spell. It hasn’t rained for weeks. Drought is a problem here in Brandenburg and it’s getting worse. Due to climate change.

    Of all the vandalism caused by the new US administration, probably the most predictable was climate science.

    The history in USA policy goes back to when daddy Bush decided to rename climate change “global warming” because it sounded positive. Something that we would want, rather than a bad thing. That set the tone for the next thirty years of obstruction, where climate change deniers sought to prevent any action taken to reduce CO₂ emissions.

    Now the pretence is over. They are not going to do anything about climate change. In fact, there are even moves in some states to make renewable energy illegal.

    Why are they doing this? To own the libs, obviously, but there must be a bit more than that. Do they think reality is whatever they say it is? That there is no objective reality? Maybe they genuinely think climate science is all a giant hoax?

    Whatever the case, the USAians have decisively rejected reality and embraced a fantasy instead. This cannot end well. Reality always wins in the end.

    Beyond the USA, it’s worth pointing out that if the governments of the world had shown as much enthusiasm for this issue as they have for tooling up for a great big fight, it would be solved by now.