For your consideration: I did not know about this group of doctors.
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We are living in bizarre times.
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Can we be on the cusp of a new Dark Ages with this much technology? Just wait until we have fully unleashed AI and that AI has to consider the dangerous idiocy of humans.
But I know, ...I digress a tad. Risk of letting oneself project too much into the future. It sounds crazy, but then so does our current political reality.
MikeInBatonRouge
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May 24, 2020
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45 TrumpOLINI got the idea from French doctors NOT FAUCI
Larry68Feminist
Level 7
May 24, 2020
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Here's your answer... a bunch of right wing nutjobs. No surprise here!
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a group of conservative activist doctors who oppose the 2010 health care reform law, the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Members of the group also believe that President Obama may have hypnotized voters and that climate legislation is a threat to human health. Some of the group's former leaders were members of the John Birch Society. Mother Jones wrote of the group, "Yet despite the lab coats and the official-sounding name, the docs of the AAPS are hardly part of mainstream medical society. Think Glenn Beck with an MD." The executive director is Jane Orient, an internist and a member of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.
The group describes itself as "a non-partisan professional association of physicians in all types of practices and specialties across the country. Since 1943, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine."
TheoryNumber3
Level 8
May 24, 2020
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Indeed. We are in a dangerous world of right wing propaganda willing to stoop as low as they need to, anything to cling to power.
[apnews.com]
There are more news sources exposing this, but you get the idea 
MikeInBatonRouge
Level 8
May 24, 2020
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@silverotter11 well-written and alarming. Nobody likes to be called an idiot, whether on the left or right. So we look for ways to dismiss viewpoints like this author's.
I find myself wondering if he had any solution to propose or just doomsday prediction. I like to think a shocking and sudden disaster like we are now in can wake up enough of the electorate to support structural change. But I would only LIKE to think that. I find it hard to find the evidence to support my wish. I suddenly rather feel like economist Robert Reich, who deftly explains the elements of our economic problems but then pronounces his faith in the American people to right the ship before it is too late. Yeah. Maybe. But also maybe not. It is depressing.
@MikeInBatonRouge I do try and be optimistic. The far right may be beyond educating. I'd be happy with a small glimmer of less ignorance.
@silverotter11 I agree. Optimism and pessimism battle in me, rather like my penchant for studying stupidity of behavior in people and groups of people, yet hanging onto belief that we are capable of finding common ground and of genuininely caring about each other, even when we disagree on some big things. In a way, coming out of devout evangelical upbringing and realizing that I, like other "believers," could be bright people who were lured into stupid and hurtful beliefs through various social forces, has allowed me to know it is possible, over time, for reason to take root and rescue people. I am exhibit A.
Never had religion and since my mom's approach to child rearing was divide and conguer my bullshit-o-meter is pretty finely tuned. PLUS I tend to be a loner. It is easier to state I am ignorant of many things and I alone can change that ignorance. It is when I choose NOT to become educated and actually shut out learning that I am now stupid. Too many are choosing to not listen and learn or even question.
Never heard of them, but if they're defending the Drumpster their info is as dangerously useless as he Is..
Charlene
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May 24, 2020
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I just posted an article in the Out of the Illusion group. You might find it interesting, or not.
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