Responding to Dr. Mary Bowden

A hero for medical freedom in Texas

Dr. Mary Talley Bowden just published an article on her Substack.

If they cannot silence you, they persecute you.

I commented as follows:

The introductory paragraph embodies the age-old conflict between rationalism and empiricism. In other words: "We are in love with our beautiful theory; we don't need no stinkin' facts."

The people who managed this auto-democide in the government, media, and academia, made use of the self-righteously fearful in the general population. This last group tended to be overly credentialed and insufficiently thoughtful and independent. There is no doubt in my mind that 400 years ago, these same people would have approved the persecution of Bruno and Galileo.

Dr. Bowden is one of our heroes today. One hundred years from now she will be widely recognized as a hero among the survivors of the present disaster. The issue is why humanity never learns its lessons, despite making the same mistakes over and over.