When my mother was preparing her will she came to a curious decision. “Kent,” she said, “there’s a section in which I have to name a person to decide, if I’m incapacitated, whether heroic measures should be made to save my life. I think your father and brother would get too emotional about it. But I think you’d make the rational choice.”
Kind of a dubious honor, don’t you think? Getting to decide whether your mother lives or dies? And does this mean I was her favorite? Luckily, we had a family discussion and decided it would be a group decision between the three of us.
I tell this story to underscore the point that throughout most of my life I’ve been regarded as the calm, rational one. A nickname for me in the family is “the diplomat” because of my ability to see both sides of a dispute, and not offer offense to anybody.
Which is why it was absolutely puzzling to me when I started raising questions about the harm from vaccines, so many of my friends and family acted like I’d gone completely nuts. After all, what happened to the previous thirty-nine years of being the calm, rational, honest to a fault person?
Which is why when I read Malcolm Gladwell’s recent book, it was as if a light went off in my head. The main question raised in his book is why interactions with people often go spectacularly wrong.
One of the most interesting parts of the book was his discussion of the disgraced financier, Bernie Madoff, who stole billions from investors. It should have been an open and shut-case. Madoff was reporting consistent returns for his clients, regardless of what the stock market was doing. Could he really be that good? I mean, is there anything more black and white than a balance sheet?
In 1964 a Tulane University medical professor, Dr. Mary Sherman, was found dead in her home. She’d been stabbed many times, her body was charred and scorched, as if she’d been in a terrible fire (although there was only superficial fire damage to her bed and home), and she was missing her right arm.
Recently he had on Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, the inventor of email, four degrees from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), founder of several companies, and a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
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…a courageous Rosalind Franklin type researcher with the quick wit one might expect of Erin Brockovich if she had a doctorate in molecular biology. Her eyes were opened when she discovered a mouse retrovirus which had jumped into human beings (probably through vaccines), but she was unprepared for the widespread corruption of science in multiple fields.
“No topic is spared from political correctness in Donald Trump, Jr.’s, Triggered, which will expose all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online “shadow banning” to fake accusations of “hate speech.”
…the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, who talks about “talent stacks”, and has become one of the most important political and lifestyle commentators of our time.
