Which is to say… it is not the practitioners of science who are the problem. It’s society’s willful ignorance and insistence on confirmation bias.

People don’t trust science because it very often reveals uncomfortable truths; they expect it to comfort them and align with the mythologies they’ve been indoctrinated with. They also don’t trust it because it admits when it’s wrong, which is seen as weakness or flip flopping in other realms.

Done

It is illegal to release evidence to the public before trial.

"not all"?? ...so, some?

Kirk was just “mowed down” by someone of his own color AND party. Black people deal with infighting the same way any group of humans do. It’s human psychology. This is not a “gotcha”. There. It’s been talked about.

Exactly. It’s infuriating every time I hear a politician say something “doesn’t belong in our democracy.” WHAT DEMOCRACY?? The SCOTUS is absolutely rigged, so whatever we vote on or have “inalienable rights” to, those guys are overturning.

Thank you 🥰

Why do you feel you cannot alter anything? Would you like to?

Josiah could give some great gardening tips 😊

I guess it depends on the diagnosis.

Don’t you? I mean, at least the privilege of smugly announcing your diagnosis as a hall pass for bad behavior

I read this as ai Sharpton, as in a version of artificial intelligence taking on the person of Al Sharpton… and I feel like we’re so close to that reality that I totally believed it

Maybe that’s a good thing. I mean, I want us to all do well financially, but I’m over the inflated egos.

No. They’ll go to Russia, the only country that hasn’t been tariffed. We shall be getting our foreign goods through the up and coming world power.