My son sent me the link to this piece and I was glad he did. This piece
might bring the idea of the gap between rich and poor to more young people
than media coverage of its rise over the past decade (much as Jon Stewart
might be for youth the foremost exemplar of the practice of critical
thinking available in current media).
My only critique of the Onion piece is that its historical approach
suggested a gradual/steady increase worldwide over time (suggesting
inevitability), rather than a recent jump due to recent political-economic
practices.
But really the most brilliant item from the Onion from around the same time
was the article about a teenage white girl being ordered by the judge to be
tried as a 300-pound black man. Absolutely not to be missed.
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Randy Reiter, PhD, MPH, Population and Community Health Epidemiologist
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
Community Health Epidemiology
Community Programs
San Francisco Dept. of Public Health
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often
vague, than an exact answer to the wrong questions, which can always be
made precise.
--JW Tukey, The future of data analysis, Ann math stat, 1962; 33:13-14
Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food
supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation,
education, and health care, whose distribution across populations
effectively determines length and quality of life
- CDC
Medicine is a social science, and politics is but medicine on a large
scale.
-Rudolf Virchow, Die medizinische Reform, 2. In Henry Ernest Sigerist,
Medicine and Human Welfare, 1941: 93
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so
vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is
horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other
people.
- Eduardo Galeano
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For those who are not familiar with the Onion, they always try to push the
envelope with very dry satire. They absolutely make fun of everything and
everyone. In satire unfortunately, there is no limit, and the Onion is
known for that. And they usually try to repeat what people are secretly
thinking, or the absurdities that we hear in the rhetorics around us,
however, they do so to actually call on the absurd, the twisted, the
obviously distorted aspects of our daily lives. I am a huge fun and would
highly encourage all of you offended by the seemingly anti-semitic
statement to look at it as one that is intended to call out the absurdity
and hilarity directed at those who easily believe in conspiracy theories
(orchestrated by "the Jews")...
Sincerely,
Aline N.
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