I hear all the time from Boomers & older Gen Xers about how much music today sucks. It's selective memory. First, a whole lot of music from the 1960s and '70s sucked just as bad. We just don't remember it because it's not played any more. There's lots of good music out there. 1/
I discovered how much good music is still out there when I just started doing some exploring. Since I signed up for Apple Music, meaning there's no cost that I'm not paying already to check out new music, I've found a whole lot of fantastic music out there. 2/
Granted, huge swaths of what gets played on the radio a lot still sucks. That must be conceded. However, that's always been the case, at least for as long as I can remember. 3/
In any case, as each generation like ours approaches middle age and ages beyond that, the generations following it somehow magically seem to us lazier, more disrespectful, less intelligent, and less moral than ours was. It's been that way since at least ancient Greece. 4/
There must be something about aging that makes us forget what screwups so many of us were in our youth and that blinds us to how hard today's youth has it, because this selective amnesia has been a feature of humanity for thousands of years. 5/5

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Feb 9
As always, with #COVID19 minimizers/deniers/antivaxxers, it's "civility for thee, but not for me." When called on it, predictably, they always retreat to, "It was tongue-in-cheek," a version of "I was only joking."🙄
I wonder if she'd mind if I started referring to her as part of "Team COVID." After all, it's just "tongue-in-cheek."😉
Again, *they* are free use *any* "tongue-in-cheek" term that they like to dismiss and demonize us, but *perish forbid* that we have the temerity "label" them with *any* term that's the *least* bit derogatory!
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What if...and hear me out on this...

Vaccine mandates had *already* been politicized by the right BEFORE the pandemic, and that politicization has only been super turbocharged since #COVID19. It's not as though I wasn't writing about this five years ago and earlier... 1/
For example, from 2017... 2/respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/22/in-…
Also in 2017, @MIGOP was trying very hard to weaken school vaccine mandates in Michigan... 3/ sciencebasedmedicine.org/make-measles-g…
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Jan 26
So I was thinking. Anyone want to start a betting pool to predict the next time @RobertKennedyJr compares vaccines (or #COVID19 public health measures) to the #Holocaust?
There should also be some sort of bonus if the winner predicts an incident where @RobertKennedyJr is forced to issue another insincere apology after an uproar over his bogus #Holocaust analogy.
This one could be the winner, because it would allow @RobertKennedyJr to combine his #Holocaust analogies by applying them to both #CovidVaccine and #autism.
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Mr. Chu is doing *more* than just *sounding* like an antivaxxer here. He’s parroting a common antivax trope, the Nirvana fallacy, which involves conflating imperfection with uselessness. #CovidVaccine decreases, but does not eliminate, transmission. 1/
Antivaxxers have been doing this for decades about, for example, the flu vaccine and pertussis vaccine. Just because a vaccine isn’t 100% effective in preventing transmission does NOT make it useless, but that’s the dishonest argument antivaxxers make. 2/
Mr. Chu really does appear to be antivax, doesn’t he? He makes the same bogus arguments antivaxxers make, and then this.
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If you want to know the damage that a Nobel laureate who's gone full quack can do, look no further than this @WSJ op-ed by Luc Montagnier and and Jed Rubenfeld trotting out this nonsense about mandates. 1/
One wonders if @WSJopinion knew when it accepted this op-ed that Luc Montagnier is a thoroughly disgraced quack now. He'd gone full antivax, for instance, years before the pandemic. 2/ respectfulinsolence.com/2017/11/28/the…
Indeed, when Montagnier embraced The One Quackery To Rule Them All, homeopathy, a decade ago, I coined the term "Nobel disease," to describe Nobel laureates who became quacks, cranks, and pseudoscientists in their later years. 3/ respectfulinsolence.com/2010/11/23/luc…
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I wonder if @brownstoneinst is aware that this article is parroting a longstanding antivaccine talking point going back to even earlier than the two decades since I've been writing about antivaxxers? 1/
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