Get learnt.

To someone who was trying to argue his anti-vax stance with their reading scientific articles, I replied: “You don’t read a scientific article like you read a newspaper. The average person has no idea how to read a scientific article.Unless you are trained, it will not teach you anything.It’s a minefield of scientific metalanguage and

Of masks and stars

“Masks are like yellow stars.” “Vaccines are like yellow stars.” No. Nazi Germany is a society based on conspiracy theories and eugenics.Nazis believed that being a Jew was a disease threatening the purity and survival of their race. They called it a cancer but they had no cure. No cure, because Judaism is not a

Cruel summers

Vancover. British Columbia. Dome of heat. What worries me about this heatwave is: what if it doesn’t go away? What if it lasts the whole summer? They say it’s a dome of heat, like those big lid you put over cakes or cheese when you want to leave them out for people to look at.

LGBT+ blood

June 14th was World Blood Donor Day and when it comes the urgent need of blood to save lives, it turns out beggars will be choosers. LGBT+, no thank you. But we’ll have your organs when you’re dead.

Flat-Earthers

Flat-Earthers are an interesting bunch because they devote so much time and effort denying something that is a mere observation and therefore has no bearing on our lives whatsoever. Whether the Earth is a flat or a sphere, it does not change anything. People who believe it is flat do not pay fewer taxes, they

Children’s crusade

The ludicrous resistance to climate change has become so deeply entrenched, especially amongst American’s right-wing man-children, that an actually child-woman is only best hope of survival. Samantha Bee

Unscientifically proven

Science does not prove anything. Scientists support theories with evidence that is obtained from testing hypothesis. Scientists do not actually “prove” things because the next study may show that our theory was in fact incorrect and needs changing. Real scientists do not say “scientifically proven”. Dr Inna Kanevsky

Old and new

New technologies spread the old very quickly and there is nothing spreading faster than an old idea. Fran Lebowitz.

Les nons avant les ouis

La France a décidé de faire passer ceux qui ne veulent pas du vaccin avant ceux qui en veulent. Personellement, je suis volontaire! Il est hors de question que je reste coincé dans ce pays parce qu’il nous faut 150 ans pour vacciner 65 millions de personnes. Pour citer les ministres, nous avons les vaccins,

Stagnant

“We are in trouble as a species if we cannot believe in things we cannot do ourselves.” David Mitchell