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| GenoDRPh Member since: Aug 24, 2023
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Posts: 2824 | Quote: SOOPOO I’m not sure what point you are trying to make? Propofol is a drug, essentially replaced pentathol, that has saved thousands of lives due to its much better safety profile than Pentothal. Of course, proper training in its use makes it an exceedingly safe drug. But not having airway management skills and using it can have a Michael Jackson result.
Why would I have stopped using it for my patients because a quack who didn’t know how to use it killed someone?
As we would not have stopped using propofol just because a quack who didn’t know how to use it killed someone, we should not change our habits, behaviors and our laws to mitigate climate change and environmental destruction just because some green celebrities aren't. |
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| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014
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Posts: 5726 | Quote: GenoDRPh As we would not have stopped using propofol just because a quack who didn’t know how to use it killed someone, we should not change our habits, behaviors and our laws to mitigate climate change and environmental destruction just because some green celebrities aren't.
Ok. But I’m sure you’d agree we’d be better off environmentally if we banned all internal combustion engines. And eliminated lots of coal using factories. And air conditioning. Etc…. But people don’t just look at everything from an ‘environmental’ perspective. Exactly what laws/regulations/restrictions are in the public good and generally reasonable are not black and white. I’ll agree with you that the Trump administration goes too far one way……. As he does on most issues… |
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| GenoDRPh Member since: Aug 24, 2023
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Posts: 2824 | Quote: SOOPOO Ok. But I’m sure you’d agree we’d be better off environmentally if we banned all internal combustion engines. And eliminated lots of coal using factories. And air conditioning. Etc…. But people don’t just look at everything from an ‘environmental’ perspective. Exactly what laws/regulations/restrictions are in the public good and generally reasonable are not black and white. I’ll agree with you that the Trump administration goes too far one way……. As he does on most issues…
Not black and white perhaps. But, like almost everything else, risk versus benefit. And a little disruption actually isn't in a lot of cases. The sky won't fall. |
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| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Posts: 22930 | Quote: odiousgambit Looks to me like Bezos fired the wrong 300 Ya know, some things are just stupid. One of them is to advocate how bad global warming has gotten to be when everyone you're talking to is freezing to death from the cold, no? Yet the Washington Post has done just that during one of the worst winters the East Coast has experienced in a long time, and I ask you, just where do you think their primary readership resides? Who knows if the reporters are following good science?* It just makes normal people angry to see an article like that. Stupid! Headline: "Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened." there's a paywall https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2026/climate-change-temperature-rate-accelerating/
Quote: Winter 2025-26 was one for the record books, in the sense that there was record-breakingly little winter for the western half of the country.
A large swath of the western half of the U.S., from Southern California to the High Plains and Northern Rockies, had its warmest meteorological winter (December through February) on record - based on 131 years of climate data.
The contiguous United States (every state except Hawaii and Alaska) as a whole measured its second-warmest meteorological winter on record. Cooler temperatures in the East kept the country from its record warmest winter
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2026-03-02-meteorological-winter-2025-2026-west-warmest-on-record "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
