Dueling experts: AHA versus USDA Dietary Guidelines
Dueling experts issue differing nutrition guidelines. What are regular people supposed to do?
Expert predictions of the future worse than random guesses
Tests have been run in the past that found expert predictions of the future - even in the not distant future - are highly inaccurate.
Public health, media: Covid did this…
Covid created inequality, ownership consolidation, fascism, xenophobia, and a decline in literacy. Amazing little virus.
Crime/Corruption
Dueling Experts
Models
Nation of Idiots
Policy/Government
Public Health/Nutrition
Stupidity
Experts: The out of touch expert class
After the Covid era and a few other things I agree 100% with this.
Nutrition: Field grown fake dairy protein?
Replace simple, low processed, locally grown organic food with highly processed, molecular engineered soy proteins to make fake dairy product. Uh huh.
Health: Are dental implants a mistake?
Interesting topic - I recently had a 2nd root canal (due to a dying tooth). Both root canals were successful.
Crime/Corruption
Dueling Experts
Health-Healthcare
Policy/Government
Public Health/Nutrition
Science
Stupidity
Public health: Report finds CDC hired PR firm to tell lies
Congressional House report finds the CDC hired a public relations (propaganda) firm to lie to the American people. That inspires trust and confidence! /not
Climate: WEF says we must destroy our food system in order to save it
We need to ban salt, sugar, fat, additives, meat, add fiber and probiotics, mostly consume manufactured "ideal" foods and substitute products. It's Just Science.
Climate: Believing in “innovation” means you are a climate denialist
Expert in Renaissance Literature says there can be no skepticism about any aspect of climate theories. It's Just Science. Believing in innovation is a form of denialism.
Business: Do employers really not care what degree you have?
Half of employed college grads say they work in fields that require no college degree, so yes, kind of. But that's not the thrust of this story.
Personal finance: How much do you need to retire?
"Experts" say you need at least $1M+ to retire, yet real world data says that is probably not true. Dueling experts go at each other on the topic.
Business: The Dunning-Kruger Effect May Not be Real
The Dunning-Krueger Effect said people overestimate their knowledge/ability. But this finding was a statistical blunder. The authors were the unskilled ones.
Public health, climate: Trust in Science falls
Surveys show a collapse in trust in most all professions, and in most institutions. Science, once trusted, has seen declines in the public’s trust there too. This column suggests one…
Follow up: By 2024, climate change will cause global catastrophe, millions dead
By 2024, cities will sink beneath the seas, Britian will have a Siberian climate, nuclear war, droughts and rioting across the world. It's Just Science.