Cops admit that they use minor driving infractions, such as an air freshener attached to the rear view mirror, as excuses to stop and search a car based on vague and groundless suspicion.

If we take the idea of rights seriously, we should not allow the supposed enforcers of laws to set them at nought.

Of course, there is another risk to justice that occurs whenever cops search a car: that they may "find" something that wasn't there before the search. Can we develop a way to end this risk?

A special blood-filtering machine can cure Covid-19.

Most people won't die from Covid-19 now, but many will develop a lasting disability. We don't know whether they will ever recover. Instead of limiting these machines to those who are close to dying, we should see if they prevent "long Covid".

Around 60% of US voters support various measures to regulate banks so they cannot facilitate increases in fossil fuel infrastructure or use.

I think we need to do more than those four requirements.

Several news publications say: *Journalism should reflect what the science says: the climate emergency is here.*

Scientific American is one of them.

*Police officer jailed for breaking Black man's knee in 'clear case of racial profiling'.*

It will be harder for people to deny the existence of racial profiling as cases like this accumulate.