science

The way MAGA questions it is far from beautiful my friend.

Eh, while it's nice to say that science is all about method and nothing is above being questioned, at a certain point there's so much evidence that it's insane to argue against them. Like, I'm fine saying more than just germs cause disease or that not all germs cause disease, but saying there are no germs that cause disease when we the mountains of evidence we currently have is insane. It's a lot like saying gravity doesn't exist. Like you can argue that maybe gravity is a niche case or a product of a particular frame of reference, but things still fall down. We know that, it's unquestionable.

People didn't let him off easy. They outright rejected him. So he sold himself to Trump for the position he has. He's a morally compromised whore for money and power so he doesn't have to face the harm he has caused to countless people.

Alligators looking pretty darn close to how they did millions of years ago is a nice indicator for survival of the fittest. I think fittest probably involves social paradigms with humans, and being recognized as fit might present an interesting intellectual challenge where you are more likely to find yourself surrounded by sycophants who soonest reenforce your own bias. Perhaps even, you’re looking at decades of that toxin in its effects. But, I am not a researcher on this field so I digress.

But he still gets to keep his job, because Congress won't remove him

one shortsighted charlatan

Way more than just one

Can't help but notice that you have Doc Oc in there twice but you don't have Dr Ruth even once...  

I’m at the cafe and people are looking at me as I laugh out loud alone. Thank you.

Nurse Ratchet! You are my people.

The Silent Hill nurses.

Yes. This guy literally eats roadkill. And brags about it.

This guy is in charge of the CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL. Not only responsible for the health of the nearly 400M US Citizens, but really globally in many ways. And this failson thinks you can sweat away ebola with some fucking supplements... that he happens to peddle.

To be fair, miasma theory made sense and was completely logical, before microscopes.

They knew about actual lethal gases, and ones that had different effects on the body. They knew there were gases they couldn't yet detect, as they were still discovering new ones. They knew rotting stuff produced all kind of gases and stenchs.

Hell, the theory is still pretty much valid for radon, though for reasons they couldn't have possibly imagined.

And at the same time, the idea that animals could get small enough to be invisible, and to invade the human body, was absurd.

It came as quite a surprise when the microscope was invented and every single drop of water turned out to be a whole ecosystem teeming with life, and we turned out to be precariously balanced colonies of microscopic cells, also inhabited by a whole bacterial ecosystem teeming with both friends and foes.

And then came viruses, which are downright absurd to the point that we're still figuring out where they fit in the tree of life, and whether they're alive or not.

And prions, which are the stuff of horror science fiction yet completely logical when you think about how proteins work, and how easily they might sometimes not.

Miasma theory wasn't correct, sure, but it was definitely simpler, and made much more sense than the mess reality turned out to be.

people are eating children

I'm sorry, what's up?