Public health: Covered California health exchange sent personal data to LinkedIn
Covered California was sending highly personal information to LinkedIn. Without your permission.
Public health: Epidemiologists should be in charge of everything
Experts know what is best for you, so please sit in the back and be quiet.
Public health: About half of “Covid deaths” in Athens hospitals were not due to Covid
"Nearly Half of ‘COVID Deaths’ Not Caused by the Virus, Researchers Find"
Health: The Best Video On Heart Risks, cholesterol, etc
I strongly recommend this as the most reasonable commentary on heart risks. Highly recommend watching this.
Nutrition: Nutrition science is about climate, animal rights, and labor abuses
The climate cult is now a vessel for nutrition science, inequality, social justice, animal rights and labor abuses. And you thought it was about climate?
Economy: Inflation, tariffs pricing people out of hobbies
Are hobbies important? Yes Hobby inflation is likely to register (and may already be registering) real social, political, and economic consequences—because not only are hobbies good for the well-being of…
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.
Models: 2024 Predictions gone wrong
Model projections are often worthless and in some fields, completely worthless. Yet we blindly follow them.
Public health: Per CDC, 20% of US population died of heart disease in 2022
The CDC actually says that on their web site... geesh.
Nutrition: What Grok says about B-12 deficiency as a risk for heart disease
I asked Grok to summarize the potential of B-12 deficiency to be a risk factor for coronary artery disease (blockages due to plaque).
Nutrition: This week, eating chicken is bad for you
Another week, another likely nutrition junk science study.
Nutrition: The Mediterranean Diet is Systemic Racism
Expert says the Mediterranean Diet is a subset of what people there eat, chosen to be palatable to white northern Europeans - and is culturally exclusive and racist.
Nutrition, Media: 98% of US households buy meat
98% of US household bought meat in 2024 which is contrary to claims that everyone is pursuing "plant-based" eating.
Nutrition: Vitamin B-12 content per ounce of meat
Beef can contain more than 10x the vitamin B-12 than chicken.