Cappagh Hospital in Dublin is not an acute hospital. It is the national orthopaedic hospital, with 159 beds, and seven state of the art operating theatres. It is where you go when you need an operation on your bones, or muscles. It does not accept, and is not equipped to handle, Covid patients. However, at […]
2021 was the year of the great Irish vaccine culture war. And, in a sane world, 2021 is where that great vaccine culture war would stay. We now know the facts about the Covid 19 vaccines, and what they do, and do not, do. We know, for example, that the vaccines confer some important benefits. […]
It’s an unusual thing, at the best of times, to find oneself being denounced as some sort of racist crypto-paedophile. It’s more unusual still, when you find out about it while in the middle the kitchen aisle at Super Valu, trying to decipher your wife’s shopping list. (Since when is “extra strong tin foil” a […]
What’s remarkable about all of this is that for a man so different in tone and temperament to Donald Trump, Biden has made very similar mistakes.
But data can be accurate, and misleading, in a number of ways.
Middle aged people like me are convinced that we know best, and that the whole world would be better if people just lived the way we did.
Mr. Ganley, and all those who supported him in taking the case, have every right to feel aggrieved.
The public deserve accurate data, and to have absolute faith that the data is not being politicised and manipulated to shape public opinion.
I’ll try and do better in 2022
The question here is simple: Who is deciding what goes into the model? And why is that data not being widely shared?
We do not see journalists interviewing the Government’s advisors on economic policy to ascertain whether they approve of Government decisions.
The reluctance in Ireland to challenge consensus, and authority, and the way things are done, is, and forever will be, the cancer at the very heart of our society.