Education Forensics: English Class Room 108
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 Podcast
Mediocre Thinking
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Mediocre Thinking

The NY Times - again - shows contempt for the Truth and its readers.

The Lawyer for ICAN, a health freedom / independent medical decision-making organization, filed a petition that one of six Polio vaccines should have its safety and efficacy clinical trial time changed to longer than 3 days.

Yes, a Polio vaccine created in 1990 was tested … for 3 days … and determined to be, you guessed it, safe and effective. ICAN and its lawyer wanted that time to be lengthened, and a proper clinical trial done. It didn’t want polio vaccines taken off the market, or removed from circulation, or anyone denied access to any of the other 5 vaccines available. Here’s how the NY Times presented this story to its readers:

Has nothing to do with Kennedy, and doesn’t seek to Revoke Approval

Aaron Siri, the lawyer in question, is RFK Jr.’s lawyer. However, the NY Times is religious about vaccines, seeing them in a godlike light, and any criticism of these products is sacrilegious. It’s quite odd. Kennedy had nothing to do with this case, and no revocation was sought.

When you’re a mediocre thinker, and anything with “NY Times” is treated as truth, you get formerly august outfits like the Times producing nonsense shown in the picture above.

This story is patently false, written by zealots who seem obsessed with propping up the billionaires running Big Pharma.

There is a lot of talk these days about Americans losing faith in their storied and classic institutions. This is exhibit A. It’s time we re-dedicate ourselves to teaching our young people how to think, and not what to think.


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Education Forensics: English Class Room 108
Education Forensics: English Class Room 108 Podcast
My teaching career began in September 1996. I have a lot to say - some if it is wonderful and some of it isn't. Practically everything you've heard about the school business is wrong. At this stage, I've basically seen it all.
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