Follow up: What happened to “microplastics”?
Recent studies indicate early panic over microplastics may have been due to false positives and contaminated samples.
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Economy: Should billionaires be forced to give away all wealth to the government?
Bill Gates has donated over $200 billion to charitable causes, WHO, foundations, research, drug discovery, education and more.
Statistics: Absolute versus Relative Risk
Fun with statistics: Relative risk versus Absolute Risk. Most of the time, particularly with medical drugs, we only hear the relative risk values.
Public health “experts” propose making everyone allergic to meat
"Bioethicists" promote using ticks and a tick-borne illness to make people allergic to eating meat.
Science: How much do you know about science?
11 question survey from Pew Research purports to rank your science knowleddge. Seemed easy to me.
Climate: Climate conferences hypocritically among biggest carbon emitters
Private aircraft flown to climate conferences are among the largest carbon emitters on earth.
Climate: To stop climate change, we must ban pet dogs and cats
The Science is clear: We must ban pet dogs and cats as they are bad for the climate and the environment.
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Dueling Experts
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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: Really? “Climate change may incite aliens to destroy humanity”
Aliens will destroy us because climate change. It's Just Science.
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Public health Reminder: 4 years since UCL’s Neil Ferguson made a fool of himself
4 years since the architect of lockdown broke his own lockdown rules, went off and had a fling, while recovering from Covid-19.
Climate: Obviously, we need to stop eating meat and eat like “Cavemen”
One study, at one location, in Morocco, concludes ancient peoples ate more plants than originally believed. Therefore, we don't need to eat meat, of course.
Science: We should censor opposing viewpoints
The editor of Science previously said we must censor opposing viewpoints and perspectives. Because that is how modern science works! It's Just Science!
Science: Leap seconds
Positive and negative leap seconds are are real - and no cause for panic. Unless you are of the panic persuasion.
Bias against women in male dominated jobs has decreased, but bias against men in female dominated jobs remains
Study finds that discrimination against females in male dominated jobs has mostly ended or reversed, but that discrimination against males in female dominated jobs remains.