It’s pretty clear where the U.S. government is and has been a huge milk, huge supporter. Canada, on the other hand, has broken with the United States and advises consumers to “Make water your drink of choice.” What the heck is going on?
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Most people know that crabgrass is a metaphor for unwanted things that creep into our lives and are hard to get rid of. Lately, I’ve begun to wonder if there is any crabgrass worse than politics. For a while I thought this was because I live outside of Washington, DC. But I’m becoming convinced it is creeping into almost every facet of our lives.
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The problem with the term “cherry picking” for science is that picking out the good cherries makes sense. It is picking out the rotten cherries that leads us astray. Picking out good cherries that establish causation instead of correlation is a good example. Correlation studies are useful, but only as suggestions for things that need to be investigated further to find causation.
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We have plenty of large complex problems in this country. To fix them requires acquisition of data, a time to think through and test solutions, and choose a solution, including timely monitoring results to see if the solution is working.
We don’t do that. Several recent examples come to mind.
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There is not enough land to provide animal protein to the world’s growing population. In addition, the whole idea that alternative proteins are “fake” compared to animal protein is wrong.
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“Is it safe?” is a ridiculous question that no one can answer. Let’s start with one of the questions that seems to be floating around the internet, “Is the COVID vaccine safe?” Does that mean that no one will be harmed by the vaccine? If they will, does that mean it’s not safe? Does it mean that, for most people, it makes sense to take it because the vaccine won’t make them sick? It also depends on what you think of the data about the likely outcomes of taking the vaccine versus the possibility of getting COVID. You may not, at this point, trust FDA and CDC, or you may, correctly, think that you are a different case from most people.
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