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Rebuilding America, Brick By Brick
The great Dolly Parton has passed. I hope I’m not the first one to break the news to you. She was clearly a unique person, full of joy and love. She was an incredibly talented songwriter. I’m sure everybody knows her story by now. She left her hometown in Tennessee at 18 and moved to Nashville the day after she graduated from high school. There are probably ten thousand similar stories of youngsters who dream of stardom, move to Nashville, and then fail. Dolly Parton did not fail. She had a string of country music hits, then crossed over to the pop charts in the early 1980s. She became a
Dallas Cowboys 2026/2027 season
The new NFL season is about to kick off, and as usual, the hype machine is cranking out memes as fast as it possibly can. The Dallas Cowboys are now playoff contenders once again!!! Jerry Jones has fixed every problem that the Cowboys had last year. The defense is new and improved. The offense is the same or better. Look out, world: the Dallas Cowboys are going to finally end a more than 30-year playoff drought. This is nonsense! I’m a huge Dallas Cowboys fan. I grew up in Dallas during the 1970s. This was back when the Cowboys seemed to win almost everything. I lived through the drought of
9/11 – My Beginning (Repost)
I first published this approximately 15 years ago. I’m old, and so is my blog. Do you remember any of this? I’ve spent most of today reading and reflecting on my education over the last decade. I don’t remember the first time I heard the word Al Qaeda. I don’t remember the first time I ever heard the name Osama bin Laden. I do remember where I was on September 11, 2001. I had been up most of the night taking care of trauma patients, and I was sleeping in that morning. The phone rang, and it was my mother-in-law. She was the Sentinel. She was always scanning the news.
I Don’t Believe in Oxygen or Global Warming
I posted this over a decade ago. I thought it was time to dust it off and freshen the links. I find it kind of amusing that a large group of people questions the science of global warming (climate change caused by humans burning hydrocarbons). So I thought the best way to illustrate the craziness of the deniers would be to ask: how do you know oxygen exists? Almost all of us took some biology and chemistry in high school. We did some sort of experiment and, hopefully, didn’t blow up the lab. I think that most of us remember the experiment that we did using a technique called electrolysis.
Climate Change and Ice Core Data
I originally posted this back in 2014. I have looked at climate change and the ice core data several times over the past years. I don’t think that enough people are talking about this data and climate change. Most Americans have this abstract idea of climate change, that it was dreamed up by some crazy scientist at Oxford or Harvard. (You know that everyone is picturing someone with that Einstein hairdo or like Doc Brown in Back to the Future.) Climate change is a complex science studied by scientists at hundreds of universities across the country and around the world. Some are even from Harvard and Oxford. Let’s look at the data
Can We Talk? Anthony Fauci and the Great American Scapegoat
Can we talk? Can we make an honest assessment of the United States and our response to COVID-19? One of the truly great comedians of the last 50 years was Joan Rivers. She had a routine that would start with “Can we talk?” Whenever she said that, you knew that she was going to reveal some embarrassing truth that was somewhat cringe-worthy—but also really funny. So can we talk honestly about Anthony Fauci? Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was called before the US Senate to be a punching bag. Long before he was a household name, Dr. Fauci graduated first
PulseNet and Cyclospora
I’m a surgeon. I follow infectious disease and public health. This cyclosporiasis made me look up the parasite. I wasn’t familiar with it. I also wanted to dive into how we detect outbreaks. FoodNet and PulseNet are how we detect and track outbreaks. While FoodNet acts as the “report card” tracking long-term baseline numbers, PulseNet is the active “detective”. It is a national laboratory network, coordinated by the CDC and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), designed to detect and stop fast-moving foodborne outbreaks in real time. If FoodNet tells us how many people are getting sick, PulseNet tells us exactly which people are getting sick from the exact
Lindsey Graham was a spineless war hawk
My mother used to tell me, “If you can’t say something nice about somebody, then you shouldn’t say anything at all.” Sorry Mom. Lindsey Graham has died at the age of 71. The exact cause of death is unclear at this time. Two decades ago, Lindsey Graham was a serious politician who aligned himself with John McCain, an Arizona Republican. Lindsey Graham and John McCain were huge advocates of US military power. There is not a foreign problem that Lindsey Graham thought we could not solve with U.S. military intervention. I’m sorry. Once he attacked Donald Trump and then decided that Donald Trump was his ally, I lost all the
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Errington C. Thompson, MD
Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, husband, father, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. He hates misinformation and loves data and the truth.
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