Should people die for the sake of equity? This week, the hot-button news item was that the CDC included race-based criteria for adjudicating who would get the first wave of vaccinations for COVID-19 (Ref. slides 6, 9, 31, 32, 33, and especially 34). The controversy, in short, was that minorities were overrepresented in the youngContinue reading “Life and Death: The Difference Between Groups and Individuals”
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Protected: Fragile Arguments
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Busting The College Credentialing Monopoly
Our education and credentialing system is a historical artifact. The information age has moved libraries from the universities to the internet. Education is more available than ever before. Yet for many fields, credentialing remains in the sole hands of colleges and universities. It is expensive to educate in the higher education system. Why do studentsContinue reading “Busting The College Credentialing Monopoly”
Protected: Thoughts on Tattoos and Body Modification
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