STREET DOGS

On the one side, there are the medical experts, epidemiologists who have studied these kinds of outbreaks their entire professional lives; on the other, people with very specific self-interests and political agendas. I like to listen to what the medical professionals think about this medical issue. If you are discussing this on TV, are not a medical expert and must preface your remarks with the phrase: ‘I may not be an epidemiologist, but’ perhaps it would be best if you just STFU. *sigh* On social media … there is a collection of armchair epidemiologists, partisans and cranks. Twitter has become a live field study in Dunning-Kruger effect run amuck. ”— Barry Ritholtz

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking

… who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us. ”— Isaac Asimov

“The corona phenomenon … illustrates the tenuous and uncertain nature of knowledge even under optimal circumstances, never mind the distorting effects of ignorance, prejudices and agendas. ”— Mike Berger

“It’s a fact — everyone is ignorant in some way or another.” — Vera Nazarian

“We … tend to forget that the sheer availability of information may or may not have any impact on whether or not that information can be utilised properly. In fact, we could say that the greatest lie of the information age is that, just by piling up trillions of bits of data, we perpetually increase the intelligence of the human race as a collective whole. — Daniel Schwindt