Blog regular Humble Talent commented on my post slagging Jack Marshall's science skills, and he brings up some interesting points.Don’t get me wrong, science is important, and I’ll never say otherwise.But science is also slow. And we haven’t studied everything. Science is by it’s nature incomplete. And it seems like one side of this discussion routinely likes to ignore … [Read more...] about A Few Word on Science and Public Policy
Jack Marshall – Science Dunce
Last year, I wrote my first Jack Marshall day post. I was writing too many posts in response to things that Jack Marshall said in his blog, Ethics Alarms, and wanted to cut back to preserve my sanity. My announced plan was to do just one post a year. Unfortunately that year was 2020, and Jack had a lot to write about. I recently decided that Jack's posts about the science of … [Read more...] about Jack Marshall – Science Dunce
Historic Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Data
Update: This data is no longer being made available.As a very tiny bit of public service, I've been scraping the back-end data source at the CDC vaccination summary page, and until someone bigger and better comes along, I’m making the collected data publicly available here.This is all running on my personal desktop PC right now, and I maintain the code in my spare … [Read more...] about Historic Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Data
The Highpoint of the Biden Presidency
Four years ago, when Donald Trump had just taken the Presidential oath of office, I wrote that it was "The Highpoint of the Trump Presidency," and eight years before that, when Barack Obama had just taken the Presidential oath of office, I wrote that it was "The Highpoint of the Obama Presidency," and I see no reason not to say just about the same thing about the Biden … [Read more...] about The Highpoint of the Biden Presidency
The Vaccine Rollout is OK
The Covid-19 vaccine rollout has been a lot slower than hoped. Health authorities predicted that about 20 million Americans would receive their first dose by the end of 2020, but here we are, five days after that, and the official numbers say that only 15.4 million doses have been distributed and, more importantly, only 4.6 million people have received the initial dose of the … [Read more...] about The Vaccine Rollout is OK