Frances Henry: Ignorance on parade

Frances Henry: Ignorance on parade

In today’s news is announced widespread elimination of an “alphabet soup” of divisions and programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Georgia. When government agencies and scientists are categorized as alphabet soup, I know ignorance is on parade. Eliminated has been the Division of Violence Prevention, part of the injury center at CDC. I know the people wielding power do not know, nor do they care, about the leadership of thi…

The anecdote is apocryphal, but in the political context of Spain at the end of the 90s of the last century it was totally plausible. Esperanza Aguirre came from confessing in a radio program that did not know who Santiago Segura was, at that time with a great presence in the media for his role in The Day of the Beast, by Álex de la Iglesia (fourteen nominations, six Goya Awards in 1996). "It was as if he had said that he did not know who Cervan…