Maybe It Can Be Questioned

 "If science can't be questioned, it's not science."

-- Aaron Rogers (Quarterback)

I paused over the quote that he made in the last day or two.  He made the statement in relation to Covid and the vaccination business.

When you go back to Roger Bacon, de Vinci, Gesner, Galileo, Isaac Newton, James Hutton, Alexander von Humboldt, Richard Owen, Pasteur, Huxley, and Einstein.....they were all questioned extensively and often ridiculed. 

In their minds....science was never truly 'finished'.  Discoveries simply led onto more questions, and acceptance was hard to imagine.  

We live in an odd time where 'science is settled', and the deeper into this process we venture.....the reality is that we don't need anymore scientists....if things are settled.  We might as well block off the college departments and tell people to venture into some other field of study.

The funny thing here, is that we needed an NFL quarterback to bring us back to reality.

Oh, and just a reminder.....there's more than a thousand scientists walking around today, who aren't completely convinced that Einstein was 'right'.  Yet no one seems to want to stop their thought process.  

Reflecting Over 'Silent Sea'

 Netflix produced a South Korean series that was released in the past week....called 'Silent Sea'.  I'll describe it as a Sci-Fi series, around eight episodes (45 minutes each).  Observations:

1. On script....I'd give it five stars and suggest that it ranks up there with 'Forbidden Planet' (1956).  It's actually a great story.

2.  Landscape (moon surface)?  Fairly realistic and I'd have to give them plus points there.

3.  Acting?  Some great moments....some marginal moments..

4.  The suggestion of corruption?  Drilled down, and about every 15 minutes.....you get another dose on why you can't trust the government.  

So I recommend a viewing via Netflix and would suggest it's probably one of the five best South Korean series of the past decade, and I'd suggest it in the top ten of US-made Sci-Fi productions.  

My only negative?  The last ten minutes is confusing, and needs a make-over.  I won't go into details, but will just say I had to watch that segment four times, and still don't get it.  

New York Story

 A number of NY sites are now reporting this and I'll try to simplify the whole episode.

The New York State Department of Health issued new guidance on how you dispense the Covid oral antibody and monoclonal antibody treatments.  In the midst of this....they admit....there's this shortage, so NOT everyone gets doses.

So here's the deal....because of 'systemic racism' (don't ask how they arrived at this)....they say that the way you dispense this out....has to give the 'non-white' society and the Hispanic culture folks....priority because of risk factors.  

Yes, if you were plain-white....with Covid and your doctor said that you had a bad case....getting the Monoclonal antibody treatment won't happen within the state of New York.  You'd basically have to drive just beyond the border, and get your prescription filled in another state.  

Illegal?  I'm guessing that come Monday....this will be taken into court to be challenged.  You can't make a case that one ethnic group over another....gets benefits.

But this also might be the time that people start to self-identify as American Indians....just for the hell of it, and just 'fake' it.

This also drives home the situation....why continue living in NY state?