Health: Statins and severe pain
Cardiology, medicine and numerous news stories push the idea everyone should be taking statins. For me, they caused EXTREME PAIN to the point I could not walk.
Climate: Nature study finds liberals now avoid Tesla EVs
Says a study in Nature.
Climate: How to lie by cherry picking
If you cut out all the fires prior to 1983 (the lowest point in the 20th century) you get a line going up to the right!
Health care: Heart attack deaths decline, survivability increases
Decreases due primarily to end of smoking (30%), use of statins (25%), BP management (25%), 6-19% to ban on transfats, plus better treatment. Diet is a tiny factor.
Media: “% Living Paycheck to Paycheck”
The % living "paycheck to paycheck" meme is back! It's also meaningless, wrong, and about the same % every year.
Nutrition: AI weighs in on the change in dietary advice
ChatGPT, like GrokAI, confirms that the official nutrition advice of the 1980s and 1990s was wrong and probably bad for hour health.
Robots: White colored robots are racist, says study
They are often white because of thermal considerations and use in hot sunlight. But whatever.
AI: Technical Report on Deepseek-V3
A technical report on the new Deepseek AI system is available online.
Mega urban “wildland” fires are common, say fire experts
A century ago, many cities burned down from mega fires. Building codes got better. Today, we need new codes for urban country living.
Healthcare: CNN acknowledges ACA failures
CNN all but acknowledges the ACA failed to deliver "Affordable" healthcare - where "Affordable" was the name of the Act.