I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I don’t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails I’m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.
Kevin DrumI read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt’s choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn’t come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.
Kevin DrumThe WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.
Kevin DrumBlack crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.
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