16 February 2023

The Oregon legislature is considering a bill that would ban therapists from trying to change a person's sexual orientation.  The sponsor of the bill is gay, and doesn't want therapists to discuss this issue.  I really think government should stay out of the medical profession when it comes to determining what a doctor should say or recommend.  It's a slippery slope to regulating a physician's ability to speak objectively in other matters. 

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People don't trust the CDC anymore, and this is why.  When asked about vaccine-related myocarditis, CDC director Rochelle Walensky stated "We have not seen a signal, and we’ve actually looked intentionally for the signal in the over 200 million doses we’ve given."   Thanks to the release of a tranche of emails from an FOIA, we can see that the CDC was darned well aware of myocarditis.  What a liar!
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Interesting post about Google.  Has the giant corporation lost its mojo?  Looks like the search company is at a crossroads, where AI threatens its business model, and they haven't yet formulated how they will make as much money once this new technology takes hold.  Plus, all the employees' tasks and mission are so fragmented and siloed.  It's a "peacetime" company, apparently with no sense of urgency or cohesion.  (Kinda like the U.S. now, where we're losing our collective identity.)  Is Google's search quality as good as before?  Some think it peaked around 2016.