Jan 25Mainstream media starts to wake up to massive exaggeration of Covid hospitalizations and deathsThe mainstream continues to tiptoe up to the devastating realization that Covid cases, hospitalizations and — the really big one — deaths, have all been massively exaggerated during the pandemic. Here’s a recent piece from an epidemiologist writing for Time magazine, explaining the latest scientific findings about exaggeration of hospitalizations…Pandemic4 min readPandemic4 min read
Jan 16MLK Jr’s anti-war legacy remains highly relevantMartin Luther King Jr. Day is a great reminder to look at his anti-war legacy. This is a nice essay from the Quincy Institute, a new outfit in Washington DC trying to highlight a progressive anti-interventionist and anti-imperialist foreign policy that is more in keeping with MLK’s legacy. While Biden…Martin Luther King2 min readMartin Luther King2 min read
Dec 31, 20222022 was a great year, but still challengingThis was a great year for me. But not without its challenges. I taught my first semester at a law school (climate change law and policy at UH Richardson School of Law in Honolulu). …New Years Eve3 min readNew Years Eve3 min read
Dec 27, 2022Why China’s Covid case count plummeted when the nation changed its policiesPlummeting case counts are entirely predictable given the end of mandatory mass testing of the Chinese population, and the end of reporting asymptomatic “cases,” because widespread and repeated mass testing of people without symptoms results in huge numbers of false positives (99% or more false positives); so eliminating mass testing…China6 min readChina6 min read
Dec 22, 2022New York Times admits mistake in a small victory for accuracy amid pandemic hype and liesAfter I and others reached out to a New York Times reporter about a massively over-stated death rate for Covid, the error was corrected A sensationalistic New York Times article on December 15, 2022, by Apoorva Mandavilli proclaimed the scary news that some studies have found that even corpses can…Covid6 min readCovid6 min read
Dec 17, 2022Matt Taibbi and the “Twitter files” showing overt government censorship via TwitterClear violations of the First Amendment’s right to free speech are being demonstrated over and over again; when does the mainstream media start covering this? Matt Taibbi has been doing very important work on the “Twitter files” that show how our federal government has been the “central player” in urging…Censorship2 min readCensorship2 min read
Dec 6, 2022The multiverse is misguided: a review of David Deutch’s views on quantum mechanics and realityIn short: the theory described in his Fabric of Reality constitutes an impressive effort but suffers from huge leaps of logic and if you don’t accept the many worlds (multiverse) interpretation of quantum mechanics you won’t accept his broader theory The multi-verse concept has become rather popular recently in pop…Multiverse4 min readMultiverse4 min read
Nov 24, 2022How consciousness co-creates the rainbowIllusionism, the strange school of thought in consciousness studies, argues that the experience of consciousness itself is an illusion. I argue very much to the contrary: the only thing we truly know is real is our personal experience. Rainbows are a common and extraordinarily beautiful phenomenon where I live in…Consciousness6 min readConsciousness6 min read
Nov 21, 2022How to create a more beautiful worldA conversation with my favorite contemporary social philosopher, Charles Eisenstein, about his life, his work, and the major opportunities and obstacles we’re facing today From a young age, Charles Eisenstein has felt something was fundamentally wrong with our world or, more specifically, with the social and political realities we have…Charles Eisenstein22 min readCharles Eisenstein22 min read
Nov 15, 2022The case for climate optimism?New data and long-term trends are starting to paint a much better picture for avoiding serious climate change Is there a good case for climate optimism? I feel that there is. …Climate Change4 min readClimate Change4 min read