The Humanism Ideas Diet — Even Great Science Writers Go Bad
Ed Yong is my favorite science journalist, but here he promulgates as much disinformation as he seeks to dispel — to whit:
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“…the disease was disproportionately infecting and killing people of color. These disparities aren’t biological. They stem from decades of discrimination and segregation.”
Sorry Ed, your readers know some grade ten biology, have heard of TB sanitariums, know that pigmented lives matter more than your glib condescension. It costs lives to patronize people of color, when a simple mention of $5 bottles of 25(OH)D is likely the key for resisting this, and future URI’s. You, the Atlantic and the NY Times’ yes-men belie your effete pretensions, to play God with IFR 0.014% lockdowns, like Chicken Little home alone.
It betrays the vitamin D-deficient, badly. It hurts those who trusted science writers as much, or more.
