There is a popular quote — usually attributed to David Attenborough — that goes something like this; tell me if you’ve heard it before: If you collect 100 black ants and 100 red ants and put them in a glass jar,nothing will happen. But if you take the jar, shake[…] Read On
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Mass Formation Psychosis or Runaway Confirmation Bias, Take Your Pick
I’ll never get that image of all those masked lemmings fleeing for their lives out of my head. ICYMI, thousands of kids at Brooklyn Tech and other prestigious New York City high schools fled their classrooms yesterday. Why? They felt unsafe. The snowflakes weren’t fleeing from those who offended them[…] Read On
The Long and Short of ‘Long Covid’
Everyone’s losing their sh*t over “long covid”. Now might be a good time to consider the immortal words of Douglas Adams: Don’t Panic. When you tell people that omicron symptoms are looking more and more cold or flu-like, and if you are vaxed, have natural immunity, or are not vaxed[…] Read On
When the Remedy Is Worse Than the Disease
As we head into the third year of “15 days to slow the spread” I’d like to share an epic Twitter thread by the always explicit and never complicit Ben Shapiro, who reminds us of the rank hypocrisy and complete lunacy of our ruling class’s draconian and unscientific lockdowns and[…] Read On