Month: April 2020

Why is the first inclination of Donald Trump’s supporters to lash out at the press when he says something ridiculous? Part of it is political expediency, of course. Most of it, though, is completely understandable. Even when Trump badly mangles science, journalists, who spend vast amounts of their time … Read More
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Oh look, it’s Jimmy Kimmel belittling the Vice President as a dog, again. The late-night ABC “comedian” joined the rest of the media in expressing over-the-top outrage at Mike Pence not wearing a mask while visiting the Mayo Clinic, Tuesday. While all the late-night hosts made digs at Pence for that decision, Kimmel was the
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President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence listen as William N. Bryan (left), science and technology advisor to the DHS Secretary, delivers remarks and answers questions from members of the press during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 23, 2020. (Joyce N. Boghosian/White House) There’s no shortage of quackery out
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Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in Washington, D.C., April 1, 2014 (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Ezekiel Emanuel has some unsettling beliefs. Does Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel believe Joe Biden would be better off dead? That would be a peculiar position for Biden’s chief adviser on medical
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Ultraviolet light is currently being used to clean medical instruments and lab paraphernalia and, as President Trump mentioned last week, researchers are looking into using that part of the light spectrum to kill the coronavirus inside the body. Naturally, in their zeal to purposely misunderstand and misinterpret the president they began, like the flying monkeys
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People wait in line outside NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health Morrisania neighborhood health center, in Bronx, N.Y., April 20, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Obscure statistical concepts are driving the news these days. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he coronavirus pandemic has thrust data-wranglers into a national spotlight they normally enjoy only in the runup to a presidential
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An emergency medical technician carries equipment near where people wait to be tested for COVID-19 outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, N.Y., March 26, 2020. (Stefan Jeremiah/Reuters) The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. hit 1,000,000 Tuesday, with the death toll nearing 60,000 as various state governments debate when to reopen shuttered
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) makes her way through the Senate subway before the day’s Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, January 29, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) on Tuesday said she supported Joe Biden following former Biden staffer Tara Reade’s allegations that the presidential candidate sexually assaulted her. “I stand by
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President Donald Trump reacts to a question from a reporter during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, March 20, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Today’s crop of journalists don’t bother to hide their partisanship. Almost the entire country is relieved that the president has shortened his daily press briefings and reduced his own
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves after attending a meeting about the coronavirus in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) told Republican Senators that he would not support President Trump’s proposal for an infrastructure overhaul as part of any further coronavirus economic relief, according to multiple
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Did Robert Mueller’s special counsel team withhold exculpatory evidence from Michael Flynn — and did the FBI conspire to entrap him? A new filing from Flynn attorney Sidney Powell suggests that the case against the former Defense Intelligence Agency chief and Donald Trump national security adviser may shift dramatically in the next few days. New
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Phlebotomists stand outside a triage testing area for the coronavirus at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, Ill., April 22, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) America has never undertaken its like — a high-risk, high-cost endeavor launched amid uncertainty, panic, and pessimism. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hatever we eventually call it, there is a coronavirus “project.” Chemotherapy It’s
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