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Obviously it is not wrong for the business man to want to make money. But where are you going with this? Would you not agree that, given the sad facts of history, society has to impose at least some constraints on how people can act in their pursuit of money?

This is not very convincing. Let's start with the lockdown thing. Clearly, there is a tradeoff here: the consequences of lockdowns vs the consequences of not having them. It is not at all obvious to me which way this goes. And here is the important point: this should not be decided on "ideology"...

How are you not asking for a proof of a negative? If you claim that unicorns exists, and I then ask for evidence, is it reasonable for you to then demand that I offer proof of the non-existence of unicorns?

Oh man, you cannot make this stuff up. From the genius that is Lou Dobbs: "Eight weeks from the election and we still don't have verifiable, tangible support for the crimes that everyone knows were committed".

I assure you, I am indeed an Ivy League college grad. Now to your "argument": You are, of course, correct, that a surgical operation of the type you describe could swing a result in one state. But where is your evidence that there has been such an operation? Besides, there would need to be...

You seem to be arguing that any judge who supports abortion is not to be trusted with other judgments. This is not a reasonable position precisely because the status of the fetus is sufficiently unclear as to render the abortion question very difficult to resolve. No doubt, we will disagree on...

All right, let's take these one at a time. First, the stuff about "zealotry'. You appear to be arguing that judges are motivated to reject legitimate claims of fraud because to judge that there was fraud would make the judge appear to be a zealot. How? How does agreeing that there is evidence...

This is misleading. Yes, I implied (nay, directly asserted) that you were engaging in conspiracy-theory thinking. If you had offered an evidence-based explanation for your position that the judges are "corrupt", then you would be able to justifiably object. Obviously judges can be corrupt. But...

You lie. Prove this.

What, precisely, is your logic here? It appears to be this: 1. OJ was obviously guilty, yet was acquitted. 2. Therefore, dozens of judges, 20 years later, are committing a similar miscarriage of justice. Is this really the position you wish to defend? If not, please explain precisely what your...

This is not a very convincing explanation. How would their image benefit specifically from unfairly rejecting the arguments of Trump's lawyers? I could equally well set forth the bald unsupported claim that their image would benefit from accepting the Trump arguments. In short, you are not...

I actually agree with you, but more explanation is needed. Yes, I admit it makes me feel superior when I hear the deluded ravings of the Re-Trumplicans. And, yes, it is kind of fun to put them in their place in this forum. But, of course, we should take the high road. In other words...

Rrrrrright. In other words, more ridiculous conspiracy-theory thinking. All these Republican judges are in on the fix, I assume? Trump's lawyers are not dumb. It is one thing to lie to 60 or 70 million dull-witted Americans. But they know that if they go into a court of law and lie, the...

How do you explain the fact that when these charges of election fraud are raised in a court - many presided over by Republican judges - they are thrown, often with a smackdown like this one: This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together… This Court has been...

How do you explain the Trump phenomenon? Americans cannot be intrinsically dumber than the rest of us. And yet 60 to 70 million of them support an habitual liar who almost succeeded in undermining democracy. And that in a nation that I thought was perhaps the world's most stable example of that...

Ummm, no. It is because I am scientifically literate with an engineering degree from an Ivy League university. You?

His views have been repudiated by the medical establishment. You are in the very challenging position of having to search for the rare qualified dissenter and explain what motivates you to do so without coming across as a conspiracy theorist. Why do you not go with the general consensus of the...

Why am I not surprised?

Of course I agree. What do you think is the best way to deal with the Trump cult going forward? While I am not an American, I am concerned that this toxic melange of disregard for truth, conspiracy-theory thinking, and personality worship will leach out into the wider world. Donald Trump is out...

From the reputable journal Nature: To be clear, the science supports using masks, with recent studies suggesting that they could save lives in different ways: research shows that they cut down the chances of both transmitting and catching the coronavirus, and some studies hint that masks might...