Dr. Darwin Will See You Now

Ask not for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for these chuckleheads

Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson

“Darwin’s Waiting Room. How can I help you?” All those EXPERTS with their KNOWLEDGE and their SCIENCE and their woke EDUCATIONS can’t stop the Freedumb. An Ivermectin Influencer Died. Now His Followers Are Worried About Their Own ‘Severe’ Symptoms.

vice.comAn Ivermectin Influencer Died. Now His Followers Are Worried About Their Own ‘Severe’ Symptoms.Danny Lemoi took a daily dose of veterinary-grade ivermectin and told his thousands of followers to give the drug to children. He died of a common side effect of the medication.

The greatest fool is not the person who has been fooled by the lies of others, despite how crafty and ingenious those lies might have been. Rather, it is the fool who has lied with such amazing dexterity and subtle finesse that he himself has come to believe his own lies. And this is the most forlorn and yet the most dangerous person that I can imagine.

• Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the most surprising things to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic (at least for me) was the realization that there’s an entire subculture of people who believe they know more than doctors. In the interest of full disclosure, I’m married to a nurse practitioner and count several doctors, nurses, and nurse practitioners among my close friends. These are some of the most intelligent people I know. So I can’t imagine anyone presuming to possess more medical knowledge than they do…unless they also have years of experience and schooling.

Which they don’t. What they do have is an oversupply of arrogance and charter memberships in the Dunning-Kruger Society and Royal Order of Darwin Awards.

There are folks out there who’d sooner believe what they read on WebMD, Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, or gas station bathroom walls than what they hear from a doctor with 10+ years of schooling and years of experience behind them. To my way of thinking, there are only two words to describe that mindset adequately:

Arrogance and stupidity.