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Linda Genen, MD MPH
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Master juggler with ADHD 🤹🏻‍♀️ - yes I have too many tabs open & an overflowing inbox. Data geek seeking truth. Fierce supporter of women. Photographer - iPhone & Sony 📸. Hummingbird parent. Neonatologist🐣. Physician Exec

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Time to reread Carl Sagan’s important work - “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.” ©️1995 his foreboding words are haunting. There is truth in science - a process of asking questions & using evidence to find answers. We should all be critical thinkers in the search for answers.
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
January 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM