There's a saying that although history might not repeat itself, it does rhyme. Such is the case with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and climate change. In today's communications-inundated world, not only does public reaction to global trends evolve at warp speed, but the boundaries between misinformation, disinformation, opinion and facts blur.

The current result is panic and the whipsawing of public opinion about AI by the day. A new generation of anti-progress Luddites has been born almost overnight. Climate hysteria took hold much more slowly by comparison. This contrast is striking.

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The Centers for Disease Control's weekly measles report is supposed to be a scientific record, not an opportunity to score political points. But this is the Trump administration, where everything, sadly, including science and health policy, appears to be driven by self-interest, personal grievances, and ideological litmus tests. Why should the current uproar over two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month be any different?

The United States has seen a surge in measles cases this year and last under the Trump administration, numbers not seen since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000. Nationally, 2026 has produced more than 2,900 cases, already surpassing the full-year 2025 total of 2,289.

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Pennsylvania's health department announced last month that two Lancaster County residents — both unvaccinated — died ​from measles. ​They were reportedly the first ​times the disease has killed anyone in the United States in 2026, a year that has already produced more measles cases than the country has seen since the virus was declared eliminated back in 2000. ​Almost 400 people ​have been infected in​ Pennsylvania; 70 have been hospitalized.

Two deaths​ is the number that has run in headlines​ and been cited in press briefing. It is also, almost certainly, a lie of omission — not because anyone is hiding bodies, but because the way America counts measles deaths was never built to capture how measles actually kills.

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The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.

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With the NFL pre-season well under way, I can't help thinking about the incremental neurological damage that's being inflicted on the players with each vicious tackle and violent collision. The damage --Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease better known as CTE -- has often been decades in the making.

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