January 8, 2025 – William M. Briggs

Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)

There is a well hammered cliche which nails the problem about which an Expert knows only his narrow level of expertise too well, but we avoid all cliches with the…

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There’s no point to a world without me; of course I press Red.