Most of us know Lakoff, the UC Berkeley linguist and Professor of Cognitive Science, author of many books and several Kos diaries, the most recent being The PolicySpeak Disaster for Health Care, Lakoff's Kos diary. I waited to write about Lakoff’s inflammatory comments on mammograms and breast cancer screening, Thousands could die I wish that he had waited before launching his "thousands could die" essay- it’s too much like the politicians saying that millions may die if we don’t invade Iraq, bomb Iran, or subjugate Yemen.
You don’t start a rational conversation with "thousands could die..."