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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 21 June, 2020 “He should come over here to ghana and see what we have to live with,” was my mentor’s response to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comments on the growing problem of “anti-science bias” in the US during the “Learning Curve” podcast last week.  I have my battles, and my mentor has his, but sometimes they converge. Whether you are dealing with the stark illiterate or the so-called educated middle class– upwardly mobile, aspirational class; both most often have strange values and are often “impervious to reason”, to borrow my mentor’s term.  There are at least three reasons forRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah in Accra, Ghana & F.KN. Olympio, Dr. phil. in Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany 26 April, 2020 Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko’s write-up “IS LOCKDOWN THE ONLY SCIENCE-DRIVEN OPTION FOR GHANA?” is typical influencer stuff. It was all anecdotal stuff, wild speculations and dodgy logic from a campaign strategist who was trying to justify POTROG’s 7th Coronavirus address during which the lockdown of Accra, Kumasi and Kasoa was relaxed. Gabby introduced social science into the debate, suggesting that the scientists have no knowledge of social science, or rather that their worldview is so limited that it does not include bread and butter issues. Hear Gabby:Read More →