RE: Bubonic Plague in Beijing: How Bad Could This Get? ...Did You Say "Antibiotic Resistance?!"
I can hardly more appreciate the extensive sourcing for the article. Particularly regarding potential pandemic, it is existentially important to seek first truth, and the grotesquely swollen rate of propaganda versus fact increasingly delivered by media is accompanied by proportionally reduced sourcing of claims, as buboes are with survival.
Many people are unable to grasp that free speech is of existential import, and that censorship and propaganda are prophetic. Propaganda prefaces plague, pogroms, and projection of political power. Folks exulting in their power to silence vectors of fact they consider problematic today are exulting specifically in the reduction of the potential to change their minds.
Given that the wise will change their minds when presented with facts that invalidate their position, but fools never, it becomes apparent that incompetence is the domain of censors, to whom facts are useless.
Thanks!
It's always a pleasure to read a comment this insightful.
I try to divide my entries into two categories. Those that are merely anecdotal writings about my own experiences (which have few or no sources), and those that are a compilation of my research (which are cited as extensively as I can, though admittedly I stop short of being as meticulous as I would about a truly academic paper).
Though I must say (with no small degree of chagrin) that if the measure of the wise is, as you have said, that they are able to change their minds when presented with evidence against their position, then the wise are indeed in short supply today, not merely in the US or in China but worldwide.