COMMENT | Journalism's vaccine against public stupidity

COMMENT | If there’s a vaccine we need, it’s the vaccine against willful ignorance and plain stupidity. We see this in the utterances of vaccine sceptics, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.

“A gaggle of morons (translated)”, ranted a Mexican news anchor. That’s what they are.

Morons aside, what we need today is herd immunity from the stupidity that’s latching on our current crop of politicians, the “shameless public imbecile”, as a local writer aptly described.

Of late...