Posted on Jul 19, 2021 | Comments Off on If Higher Tides Really Threaten Bay Area Roads, Stop Dumping Fresh Water Into The Bay During A Drought
San Francisco is worried that highway 37 may be in danger of flooding. They invoke environmental justice, of course, but it's really about rich people going to their second homes in Napa's wine country on weekends. Rich people need peasants toiling to feel elite and without roads they can't get there.Yet if San Francisco journalists and editors are concerned about rising water, why are they...
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Posted on Jul 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Preprint Endorsing Ivermectin As COVID-19 Therapy Has So Many Flaws It May Be Fraudulent
Ivermectin, effective against pests like worms and headlice, has been promoted by some as a COVID-19 therapy after a preprint showing its effectiveness was published in November on the Research Square website.We were certainly not immune to the public relations full-court press. Until last month a week didn't go by when someone was demanding the regulatory equivalent of 'teach the controversy' no...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2021 | Comments Off on Political Bias Is Why The Conversation Published An Anti-Science Article
It is no secret in science media that The Conversation is overtly political, any more than it's a shock that ProPublica or Mother Jones is. If you are going to get hired in most corporate media - and there are all corporations even if they are Non-Profit Corporations - in 2021 you are first going to have liberal credibility.An acquaintance of mine even had a job offer as an editor at The...
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Posted on Jul 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Screen Time Up, Reading Scores Down – Just Correlation Or Is It A Real Effect?
Correlation can accomplish anything, it's how the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences consistently finds a way to endorse chemicals in the organic food process while scaring people about chemicals everywhere else.(1) It's how the price of steel can be linked to violence in the Mid-East.A recent paper argues that reading scores are going down and phones are to blame, and...
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Posted on Jul 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Teens Use Soda and Fruit To Fake Positive COVID-19 Tests
Testing kids for COVID-19 is the kind of hygiene theater that has the FAA telling air travelers to take their masks up and down each time they take a sip of coffee. There is evidence testing for COVID-19 in schools is minimizing the impact on education while not much it is minimizing the spread of the virus. Nearly everyone over the age of 50 who intends to get a vaccine has gotten one and most...
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