Okay, I hate to call out Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman on what is, perhaps, not a huge deal, but we have the right to expect “more” from a Nobel dude like Paul, and I’m afraid Paul’s “error” here is more than a foot fault. In the course of a rap on the irresponsible…
Tag: COVID
Get your misinformation here! Get your red hot misinformation here! Courtesy of the New York Times!
How many times am I going to write this story? Well, damfino, but if the Times won’t quit, neither will I. The latest provocation from the Gray Lady of West 35th St. or wherever the fuck the Times hangs its hat these days is David Quammen’s The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin. Here’s how Dave…
Why, oh, why can’t we have better UCal Berkeley Economics Professors?
I agree with UCal Berkeley econ dude Brad DeLong maybe 75% of the time, though I almost always confine my comments about him to the 25%. Well, this is one of those times. Like so many of the cool kids, Brad has a substack blog, Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality and recently he took what struck…
CDC admits mistakes, promises to do a better job in covering its ass in the future
“CDC director orders agency overhaul, admitting flawed Covid-19 response”, says today’s Politico. “Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization”, says today’s New York Times. “Inside America’s monkeypox crisis — and the mistakes that made it worse”, says today’s Washington Post. Yeah, you can’t make this stuff up—and, most unfortunately, you don’t have to,…
Anthony Fauci is giving “Science” a bad name
Waaay back in June 2020, that notorious right-wing rag the New York Times printed a withering article, The C.D.C. Waited ‘Its Entire Existence for This Moment.’ What Went Wrong?. An extended subhead gave the following judgment: The technology was old, the data poor, the bureaucracy slow, the guidance confusing, the administration not in agreement. The…