Sweet gig you folks have. You have easy hours (even with weekend coverage) for which are you very highly compensated. With a few notable exceptions (especially for those without borders), the biggest danger in your office is a staple puncture or paper cut, assuming you follow your own rules.
You have time off when and where no one can find you unless you wish to be found. To be sure, you spent a lot of time, effort, money, and sweat to get where you are. You earn far more than the average bear in the woods, and often, you can fund you kids' medical school education without straining your dominant hand's check writing muscles. Your information database is far more extensive and impressive than Joe 6-Pack's, and your combined experience is unique and significant enough that people look up to you for advice, insight, wisdom, and analysis.
But, as a class, you folks are EFFING STUPID!
Even for a confirmed and anointed atheist such as myself, it is my prayer and belief that you are uniquely suited to help our society, and yet you do nothing. The silence from your corner has been deafening.
Our way of life is under attack. Our planet is at risk, our ability to treat and cure disease is fading away, even while we make more and more incredible discoveries and make ever more impressive tools.
Here are just a few issues where you and your members have completely and totally fucked up:
1. Vaccines.
Seriously. Where the FUCK are you bastards? Why Agent 86's Cone of Silence? Why the lack of individual and group efforts to reeducate the herd? Why the FUCK are you guys doing nothing?
Because of bad information, lies, fear-mongering, and worse, diseases that I faced as a child are coming back, many of them with fatal consequences. Each and every one of you needs to don your Don Quixote Armor and do battle, even against windmills, if necessary.
Where are the town hall meetings? Where are the letters to the editors? Where are the blogs, the tweets, the speeches, in other words, where is your combined assault on ignorance?
2. Global Climate Change.
Either you bastards are too fucking lazy to lift a finger, or you simply don't care. You are uniquely positioned to advise, inform, and warn the general population about the science - and because, in a sense, you are scientists, it is your duty to act. To warn. To educate. To converse, and to convince the public.
Because of bad information, lies, fear-mongering, and worse, climate conditions that I never dreamed facing as a child are coming, many of them with fatal consequences. The public has been misinformed. It is your job, your duty to change that. Each and every one of you needs to don your Don Quixote Armor and do battle, even against windmills, if necessary. Strike that last sentence, Ms. Court Reporter. Do battle in FAVOR of windmills, not against them.
Where are the town hall meetings? Where are the letters to the editors? Where are the blogs, the tweets, the speeches, in other words, where is your combined assault on ignorance?
(Is there an echo in the house? Well, too effing bad. This is serious stuff. It bears repeating.)
3. Voodoo Trickle Down Economics.
You see it. You feel it. Your creditor firms tasked with being paid are advising you daily about the dire economic straits that the middle and lower classes face each and every day. Even despite ACA, some families STILL forego necessary medical care because they simply cannot afford it and keep food on their table or a leaky roof over their head.
Perhaps many of you were against ACA just because. (some people who earn great wealth suddenly develop a more conservative, I EARNED IT and I WILL KEEP IT mentality.) Still, every one of you has to admit that the ACA has solved many problems, increased access to your services, and has compensated you for that increased access.
Either you bastards are too fucking lazy to lift a finger, or you simply don't care. You are uniquely positioned to advise, inform, and warn the general population about the adverse economic impact of austerity - and because, in a sense, you are social scientists, it is your duty to act. To warn. To educate. To converse, and to convince the public.
Because of bad information, lies, fear-mongering, and worse, economic conditions that I dreamed of when reading Oliver Twist are a reality, many of them with fatal consequences. Each and every one of you needs to don your Don Quixote Armor and do battle, even against windmills, if necessary. Economic windmills as dangerous and misguided as having Sarah Palin be called Mrs. President.
Come on, AMA. You have unique contact with people, you have an incredible reach into their psyche, and your words come from a position of knowledge and experience that is not easily reproduced. WHY ARE YOU BLOODY ASSHOLES SILENT? What the fuck is wrong with you? After all, it is for your own good as well as ours.
Silence is Golden only applies in study period. And those were gone many decades ago.