According to some news reports, too palatable - there are patient accounts of being pressured to sign MAID papers due to housing troubles or inability to work, for example, which is abominably unethical.

I like the way Oregon handles things: eligible patients are screened and offered a lethal prescription which they can choose to fill and use on their own terms or not. About half die naturally without using the prescription, & they and their families often say that the knowledge of chemical assistance being available/at hand creates peace of mind.

Paper, I believe - at least, that's why Hearst got into it, he had timber investments for that purpose.

I wonder sometimes how many old-growth trees would still be standing in the US if hemp had remained legal.

They may have been, but a lot of the things anti-vaxxers repeat are things that start as oversimplification into inaccuracy.

In order to fight this form of disinformation, we must also avoid feeding it new and different inaccuracies.

That's kind of a silly comment. Immune systems are complicated and there are many, many different types of cells and messenger molecules involved.

Obviously, increasing this specific kind of molecule (cytokines) isn't great. But "immune system" is a vague phrase like "home security".

You could say "So much for wanting to boost your home security" on, say, a gun fatality. But in actuality there are many types of home security that don't involve weapons. An alarm system, a camera, a dog or a fence can all increase your security without physical violence.

Similarly, immunological memory/antigen recognition is one of the first line defenses we have in our bodies, and it's good to have those first-line defenses well honed.

Whereas cytokines such as IL-6 are more like guns; once there are too many going off in one place, whatever you were hoping to prevent from happening probably already has.