Good: SB 740 and SB 471 — both of which deal with digital technology and child pornography. SB 740 would make it illegal to use digital manipulation to alter any […]
Tag: anti-vax
Republicans promoting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are playing with fire
by Jonathan Bernstein Nominations define parties. But what we’re seeing in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s futile challenge to President Joe Biden is an odd situation in which a nomination skirmish […]
COVID vaccines don’t kill people, but anti-vaxx
conspiracists do
The full-contact sport of football is one that is rife with risks. The public and the players have for some time known the dangers posed to the brain by the […]
Next year’s hottest accessory: iron lungs
Children — some as young as toddlers just learning to walk, some well into their adolescence — with metal braces caging each leg, crutches tucked up under their armpits to […]
Vaccine disruptions, mistrust ramping up measles risk
by Saad B. Omer Pandemics have consequences beyond the death and disease directly caused by the novel pathogen. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, more deaths were caused by the pneumococcal […]
Ivermectin is useless against COVID
by Michael Hiltzik The final results are in, and they’re incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19. That’s the conclusion of […]
The death toll from conservative politicization of the pandemic
With light apparently at the end of the coronavirus tunnel, this is a good time to soberly assess how America handled the pandemic and can better handle whatever new wave […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid: Law of the land
In our (hopefully) last The Good, the Bad and the Stupid for the year, we’re going to introduce you to some of West Virginia’s new laws. To keep things consistent, […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 6
Good: HB 4630 — to allow a tenant to recover the full amount of their security deposit if a landlord has failed a dwelling unit inspection on the property where […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 5
Good: HB 4355 — to require the governing board of a higher education institution to publish a list of required textbooks, and whether they are open resource or free. The […]
