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“Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or the well.” – Florence Nightingale
The lingering, PTSD-like effects of auditory overstimulation (read: “sound torture”) are well-established, both psychologically and historically. In medieval Europe, torture-by-sound joined chains, racks, and blades as instruments of coe...
“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. Choose science.” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
Far be it for me to provide scientific illiterates like Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. with an appreciation of vaccine science. For them and their admirers, political commitments preclude an understanding o...