President Trump’s tweets are far too often boneheaded, unhelpful and immediately forgettable. However, what he wrote following his discharge from Walter Reed was notable: It may have been better to have also said, “Take COVID-19 seriously”, but “Don’t let it dominate your life” is the same sort of argument many others, myself included, have been […]
New England Journal of Medicine embarrasses itself
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine signed by 35 editors is a thinly veiled attempt by the authors to call for President Donald Trump to be voted out of office for what they call his “dangerously incompetent” handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Especially coming from scientists, a standard of “dangerously incompetent” is […]