The Age of Intellectual Cholera

Logic and evidence must reemerge as the driver of actions and policy. 

By Andrew I. Fillat July 8, 2021

Cholera is a bacterial disease that produces severe and persistent diarrhea, leading to potentially fatal dehydration. It is almost unknown in the United States, but we seem to have entered an age of “intellectual cholera,” in which illogical, irrational, and absurd arguments and assertions are draining our society of its vital cerebral fluids.

Perhaps the ultimate example of intellectual diarrhea has come from Joe Biden and Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s assertion that climate change may have been a meaningful factor in the horrific building collapse in Southern Florida. Of course, the statement neither can be proved nor disproved, so it substitutes narrative and promotion for reason and logic. It seems to assert that climate change is such a malign force that it could selectively impact a single building while sparing millions of others. Never mind such trivialities as construction, maintenance, soil composition, etc. The mind boggles at the astounding hubris of the assertion............To Read More....