I\u2019ve enjoyed most of the posts on American Thinker<\/em> over the past 4-5 years. I don\u2019t recall when I stumbled up them or when I became a regular reader.<\/p>\n Lately however, the tone of American Thinker<\/em> has changed for the worse. A recent article\u00a0Why are Children Coming down with Monkeypox?<\/a> By Mark A. Hewitt is a prime, if extreme example of the tone I\u2019m referring to.<\/p>\n I can understand the author\u2019s outrage at attempts to have pedophiles normalized. I can understand the author\u2019s fear, or annoyance, at the LGBT community at large for fueling the monkeypox spread. I totally get why the author is pissed off and annoyed at the endless messaging about LGB and specifically Trans people and their endless silly pronouns.<\/p>\n My personal thoughts on pedophiles are that they should be shot if found guilty, possibly after brutal disfiguring torture. I\u2019m very pissed at the LGBT community for not stepping up to do what they can to curb the spread of monkeypox.\u00a0<\/p>\n In these very pages I\u2019ve written my thoughts, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and elsewhere in this blog. The Hewitt article above, for me personally, is beyond the pale. He draws conclusions that demonstrate the kind of religious zealotry the Taliban is known for.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll defend Mr. Hewitt\u2019s right to speak, but I don\u2019t have to read his material. Had he done 30 seconds of research by going to the CDC.gov website and looked up smallpox<\/a> and monkeypox<\/a> then read and comprehended the associated articles he\u2019d have realized that both have pretty much the same transmission routes. As I\u2019ve said elsewhere in this blog it looks like the Smallpox vaccine also covers Monkeypox.<\/p>\n Mr. Hewitt jumped to the conclusion, that has been, to some extent reinforced by the media, suggesting that monkeypox can only be spread via sex. In point of fact, smallpox and monkeypox can be spread by prolonged contact such as kissing or cuddling. Or coming into contact with bedsheets or other items contaminated with secretions from one of the pox pustules.<\/p>\n What child doesn\u2019t heedlessly jump into their parent\u2019s arms if they\u2019re upset or have a boo boo? Would Mr. Hewitt suggest that a child getting smallpox from a parent had obviously been sexually molested? Would he say the same of a child who got a staph infection from a parent recently in the hospital?\u00a0<\/p>\n Anyone who has ever had a child in their house knows that keeping a child out of specific areas such as dirty laundry, or the parents bed or even the household pet\u2019s bed\u00a0can be challenging. Additionally whatever is on a child’s hands inevitably ends up all over them and other nearby items.\u00a0<\/p>\n I\u2019m not discounting Mr. Hewitt\u2019s entire theory about potential pedophiles having access to children. I do dispute his apparent assertion that all cases of children contracting monkeypox, are evidence of child molestation.\u00a0<\/p>\n The problem for me is that it\u2019s not just Mr. Hewitt\u2019s article. This tone, in a more subdued fashion seems to be permeating the entire publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is for that reason, American Thinker<\/em> is off my personal reading list. Right next to Twitter, Facebook, and many services provided by Google. I choose to be selective in how I spend my time. I choose not to waste any of it on extremists of any persuasion. Left, Right, or Religious.<\/p>\n Perhaps the editorial staff of American Thinker<\/em> should send out some style\/content guides that inform their contributors to stick to facts in articles, and present opinion in their blog area. They probably won\u2019t, in this regard\u00a0American Thinker<\/em> appears to have become like every other publication. Money and Advertising clicks versus measured, reasoned, dissemination, or discussion, of verifiable facts.<\/p>\n It\u2019s too bad, I\u2019ll miss\u00a0Andrea Widburg\u2019s articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes it\u2019s a conservative publication. Since I\u2019m conservative leaning, I\u2019ve been interested in what other conservative\u2019s thoughts may be. Because Twitter, Facebook, Google and others have made a habit of, as Mark Zuckerberg recently told Joe Rogan, Significantly reducing article views\u2026 The places where one can see what conservatives are thinking have become increasingly rare. … <\/p>\n![\"Monkeypox](\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Monkeypox-What-to-Know-About-Vaccines-Tests-and-Treatment-1024x536-1.jpg\" "\\"Monkeypox-What-to-Know-About-Vaccines-Tests-and-Treatment-1024x536-1.jpg\\"")
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