Photo credit: Mufid Mainun, Unsplash Their Best Shot I wanted Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. to give me their best shot. I don’t mean the daily worst shot I get when I open the British Guardian or the New York Times. Both of those papers tell me early every morning just how bad and how far to the political, economic, and social right we have moved as a society. If someone would have predicted…
Photo credit: Robert Kennedy, Jr., Wikimedia Commons A World I Don’t Recognize A scowling Robert Kennedy, Jr. halts $500 million in mRNA vaccine research (Guardian, August 5, 2025). It’s most likely that very research allows me to write these words on my computer today. Some of the anti-science crowd are “screaming” about sunscreens (Guardian, August 6, 2025). An acquaintance died of melanoma a few years ago, and while this is not a woe-is-me post, getting…