In reply to <a href="https://macdailynews.com/2020/04/23/bill-gates-getting-a-covid-19-vaccine-by-2h21-would-be-history-making-achievement/#comment-2190779">smayer97</a>.
Smayer97:
On a day when MDN had some truly astonishing comments, yours probably takes the prize.
You are telling a pulmonologist, a physician who specializes in respiratory diseases just like COVID-19, that he is at least disqualified (if not unqualified) to express a valid opinion on a subject squarely within his professional training and experience. You base this on the theory that Tiger’s personal experience makes him biased, and therefore <em>LESS</em> qualified to offer an opinion than somebody who lacks his expertise.
Isaac Asimov’s observation has never been more apt than today:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by th
