Reviewing 2023 in the light of what we don't know

Surely that is the point. We are so overloaded in 2024 with facts , that we don't know what we don't know .. 
I have only one example for today-- there are surely so many. let me know of your thoughts on this 

1. Reviewing 2023 in the light of what we don't know about THE MICROBIOLOGICAL WORLD 
My little contribution today comes from reading a great old book ( Yes they can be fantastic treasures because someone put a lifetime's thought and experience into integrating the contents)

The book is called "The Advance of the Fungi " by EC Large 1940   
In it you will learn how long it takes to really learn things, how we love to think we know, and then for yourself, have some idea of what we still don't know.  How we pretend we know the full story when we only know a portion of it - and an unbalanced portion of it  
Best of all you will learn that not all who speculate or experiment really know enough to even try ( and we must stop funding them!) Plus You will learn HOW to operate successfully as a scientist and get the satisfaction that only doing a job well can bring . 

I am tempted to go on to discuss COVID here but I have done that elsewhere. The full story on that will take some time to come out and, while I have done my piece, it's now up to others to show how poorly educated we are and continue to be on that subject. The arrogance, pride and ignorance of those who take leadership positions may be quite normal in history but its scarily stupid.
I think the dilemma I posted at the start here is making the likelihood of breeding more ignorant and arrogant deniers a high probability. It won't be just a few Premiers who will have to answer for the aforementioned. 

The madness of this moment is that so many of our current leaders think, like gods, that they can change the world (and its atmosphere) when they cannot touch base effectively with the real work on the ground that makes the world work as best as it does. Look for the glass half full version as well as the dark side.  
For those readers who listen, it is still true that the truth can set us free. 
 
Let's all make more use of the internet and treat with suspicion those would insist on telling us things - especially advice of what is supposedly good for us (remember the greatest evil is done in the name of the best intention) 

I'll finish this later .  Meanwhile let me encourage  you to study the incredible "conspiracy " of fungi,  bacteria and other microflora working together and how we can as human beings compete and act as custodians if we truly act with humility and true full science understanding . 

Set your children free from the cynical conspiracies of those who fail to speak with competence.