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The ‘Yahadut Hatorah’ Party Out To Enable the Next Chaim Walder…

Chutzpah or Incompetence?

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Or maybe just cluelessness. In any event, UTJ’s proposed legislation to create a recognized “therapist” designation to seminary girls after taking a few courses in art or play therapy is a terrible idea. A few courses do not substitute for a few years of course work, and hundreds of hours of supervised field work. UTJ wants its watered-down curriculum (it would, for example, skip certain topics deemed inappropriate for sem girls) recognized by the government as the equivalent of a master’s degree!

It is no secret here that the haredi landscape is littered with the remains of casualties of self-appointed “therapists” who ply their incompetence on a population often skeptical of the people with real training, because they have been poisoned by detested universities. (Add to this the assumption that there is little of value in any secular pursuits, so minds shaped in a Torah environment clearly can learn in a matter of weeks what takes others years to master.) This proposal can only further victimize the charedi population – and enable the next Chaim Walders as well.

To get the fuller story, read this courageous piece by Amudim (the place that so much of the American yeshiva community goes for addiction, abuse, and crisis response assistance) CEO Rabbi Zvi Gluck. And then stop and think about just how antics like this from charedi politicians are supposed to be upholding our Torah values, like they tell us before elections.

From Cross-Currents, here.

Enjoy an Uncomfortable Laugh?

Biden Calls For Two Weeks Of Not Cooking On Gas Stoves To Flatten The Curve

POLITICS · Jan 14, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden has called on Americans to refrain from cooking with gas stoves for the next two weeks to help “flatten the curve”.

“It’s real simple, folks,” said President Biden. “These gas stoves have brought upon us a terrible pandemic of asthma, brain damage, and scurvy! Now folks, I still believe in America. I believe we can beat these stoves! And it starts with us coming together to flatten the curve of, you know, the thing! For just two weeks, America! Not a joke!”

In addition to the two week ban on gas stoves, the Biden administration has also recommended social distancing from gas stoves for the foreseeable future. “After the two weeks, if you must cook on a gas stove, we recommend doing so from a safe distance of six feet,” said Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. “We advise all kitchens be marked six feet from the gas stove, and ingredients be lobbed at your pans from that safe distance. The science on this is settled. All of these precautions should be continued until Moderna comes out with their brand-new gas stove vaccine.”

While many Americans have heeded the President’s call, the administration has expressed deep frustration at the stubborn refusal of Republican-leaning areas. “We have to have consequences for people who refuse to follow the science, and risk the lives of others by continuing to cook with gas,” said MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “The first step ought to be a stove passport, which only allows those with electric stoves to participate in society. If that’s not sufficient, then we must refuse hospital beds to those who brought sickness on themselves with their ignorant choice of stove.”

At publishing time, the Biden administration had extended the two week timeframe to whenever the next President is sworn in.

From Babylon Bee, here.

Medicine: Playing God

Where Are the Intellectually Curious Doctors?

By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
American Thinker

January 9, 2023

Medicine, like most sciences, entails thinking and hypothesis creation to explain the myriad complexities of the healthy and diseased human body.

Hypotheses are tested and refined, with new information or insights nudging or abruptly shifting current knowledge in a new direction.

For examples, bloodletting with leeches is no longer standard medical practice for most ailments as it was up until the late 19th century. More recently, Vioxx was considered a safer painkiller, until it was found to cause heart attacks and strokes, similar to another “safe and effective” product introduced about two years ago. Oxycontin was marketed as a nonaddictive pain killer until it devasted hundreds of thousands of lives and families and was shown to be otherwise.

Physicians, upon medical school graduation, recite the Hippocratic Oath. Quoting from the revised version (simply because the language is easier to understand), physicians swear, “I will not be ashamed to say, ‘I know not’” and “Above all, I must not play at God.”

Saying “I don’t know” is what drives the pursuit of new or alternate hypotheses. Physicians of a few hundred years ago saw their bloodletting patients die and didn’t know why, so they devised better treatments by asking questions and not playing God.

Some modern physicians play God by declaring, “I am the science,” as if they are the final arbiter in all of medicine. I assume Dr. Anthony Fauci recited the Hippocratic Oath when he graduated medical school.

What questions should physicians have been asking over the past two years? Are they staying mum because they believe the science is settled and challenges to the status quo are heresy? Or are they cowed into silence over fear over losing their ability to practice the profession which they spent a decade learning and from which they earn their living?

Start with the highly touted COVID-19 vaccines.

In the United States, 80% of the population have received one dose and 68% two doses. Yet almost three years into the pandemic, this recent headline from ABC News suggests that there is no end in sight, “WHO sounds the alarm: New COVID variant is most transmissible yet.” And the Washington Post cautions “COVID hospitalizations rising post-Thanksgiving.”

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From American Thinker, here.