Fake News and the willing suspension of disbelief

There is a scene in the film GalaxyQuest where Tim Allan's character, an actor who portrays a "Shatner-esque" starship Captain, has to explain to a race of aliens (called the Thermians) that the signals they have received from Earth and which they have used to model their entire civilization, were not archival records but but … Continue reading Fake News and the willing suspension of disbelief →

Our Duty to Protect!

This past week many of us met a Utah nurse for the first time. Alex Wubbels works at the burn unit of the University of Utah Hospital. On July 26 Wubbels was handcuffed and detained by a Salt Lake City police detective after she refused to draw an unconscious patient's blood on the grounds that … Continue reading Our Duty to Protect! →