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For Millennials, The Midlife Crisis Is Inability To Have A Midlife Crisis

For Millennials, The Midlife Crisis Is Inability To Have A Midlife Crisis

Jun 13 2024 | comment(s)

It's only psychology surveys so take that for what it's worth but the authors of a new questionnaire with a suspect confidence interval claim millennials are so whiny they say they can't even have a midlife crisis like previous generations.

They can't afford it.
Dinosaurs And Aliens On The Moon: Harvard Found A Way To Stop Talk About Their Anti-Semitism

Dinosaurs And Aliens On The Moon: Harvard Found A Way To Stop Talk About Their Anti-Semitism

Jun 12 2024 | comment(s)

Harvard has found the perfect way to get old liberals to stop yelling at their young progressives due the school's antisemitism, a chronic reality they didn't want exposed in an election year: claim that aliens, cryptoterrestrials, are living in a secret base on the moon. With dinosaurs.
Ultra-Processed Food Fetishists Have Turned On Vegans

Ultra-Processed Food Fetishists Have Turned On Vegans

Jun 11 2024 | comment(s)

What do you get when you combine food diaries of suspect reliability with an agenda against Big Food?

A prominent epidemiologist. No methodology is deemed too shoddy to manufacture "statistical significance" because few in food epidemiology seem to recognize how useless that is as a barometer for "legitimate result."
The Anti-Science Left Is Now Against Misinformation, Because The Right Caught Up To Them In It

The Anti-Science Left Is Now Against Misinformation, Because The Right Caught Up To Them In It

Jun 11 2024 | comment(s)

Do you believe bees are dying, that GMOs 'need more study', modern pesticides cause impotence?

If so, I know how you vote, and that you would be a great fit as a humanities academic claiming to be an expert about science. Like historian Dr. Naomi Oreskes, who sees conspiracies everywhere except in her tribe, even if a domestic front group for her political party got a gigantic mysterious off-shore anonymous donation through a donor-advised fund because they routinely promoted Russia Today and Sputnik and oppose American science in Russia's two largest exports, energy and food.
If Acupuncture Weren't A Placebo, It Would Be Real Medicine, So It Can't Help With Infertility

If Acupuncture Weren't A Placebo, It Would Be Real Medicine, So It Can't Help With Infertility

Jun 11 2024 | comment(s)

What plausible biological mechanism can explain how sticking tiny needs in your neck helps you get pregnant?

There is none, and yet Traditional Chinese "Medicine", also known as acupuncture but under a variety of terms such as folk medicine, traditional medicine, alternative medicine, complementary medicine...and then whatever new rebrand needs to be done when people stop paying for the old one. Mumbo-jumbo about Yin And Yang and Dao and Modalities and Mindfulness are fine, as long as you consult a real doctor. If you went to a legitimate specialist and got treatment but are convinced "music therapy" helped you get pregnant, okay, but don't pretend you should write a book about it.
With No Environmentalists To Block Science, A Communist Dictatorship Vaults Ahead In Food

With No Environmentalists To Block Science, A Communist Dictatorship Vaults Ahead In Food

Jun 11 2024 | comment(s)

Like all countries with a plan, China regards food as a strategic resource, so while western nations dither about new foods that require fewer pesticides and less water on less land, the communist dictatorship is moving ahead.

This time with genetically engineered wheat. The product that eco-terrorists in the US wouldn't even allowed to be grown in a contained field without engaging in destruction. Environmentalists hate science that much.
Anti-DEI: Psychology's Political Bias Manifests In Self-Censorship and Exclusion

Anti-DEI: Psychology's Political Bias Manifests In Self-Censorship and Exclusion

Jun 10 2024 | comment(s)

The social sciences, "science" only in that way that something like military science is, a proper name, are instead in the humanities camp, and overwhelmingly biased against non-progressives, so it is no surprise that censorship, self-censorship, deplatforming, and suppression of anyone who deviates from the majority is common.

Psychology is driven by surveys, most often undergraduates at their school, commonly undergraduates in psychology classes, and if there is budget including people who get paid to take surveys. To the real world the results are 'a social science of undergraduates' and nothing more, so no one takes it too seriously. Except other psychologists.
'Chemicals' Aren't Causing Lower Fertility, The Decline Is Fewer Teen Births

'Chemicals' Aren't Causing Lower Fertility, The Decline Is Fewer Teen Births

Jun 10 2024 | comment(s)


If you are in an environmental group, you need to replenish your targets in order to keep that $3 billion in revenue per year. People need to be mobilized and afraid and believe your legal group will 'hold corporations accountable' - by agreeing to a settlement where environmental lawyers get paid.
HomeoCare Laboratories: Finally, Homeopathy That Does Something, Like Poison You

HomeoCare Laboratories: Finally, Homeopathy That Does Something, Like Poison You

Jun 06 2024 | comment(s)

Homeopathic StellaLife Oral Care Products manufactured in 2024 have been recalled due to FDA finding microbial contamination. 

The two placebos by HomeoCare Laboratories with unsage total aerobic microbial counts are the StellaLife Advanced Formula Peppermint Vega Oral Care Rinse and StellaLife Vega Oral Spray, Unflavored.

If they are in your possession, throw them out and change your anti-science ways and never buy a pretend alternative to medicine debunked 200 years ago. If your dentist is the moron who recommends homeopathy, he either thinks you are a moron also, or you should find a new dentist.


Was It The Vaccines? COVID-19 Effects Linger In Higher Mortality Years Later

Was It The Vaccines? COVID-19 Effects Linger In Higher Mortality Years Later

Jun 04 2024 | comment(s)

A new analysis finds that after the pandemic ended, deaths are still elevated and the authors suggest that vaccines may be part of the problem.

It is a European paper by European authors and anyone who has covered science in Europe for the last 25 years, from vaccines to food to energy, know that they will often conflate one thing with a mass issue.  They could be just getting correlation arrows wrong and COVID-19 damaged a lot of people and the effects are still being felt. This happens all of the time and Europe is the worst about it, perhaps because France is the home of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which declared pickle juice and aloe vera carcinogens.
Social Distancing Was Always A Guess - Why Did So Many Insist It Was Science?

Social Distancing Was Always A Guess - Why Did So Many Insist It Was Science?

Jun 03 2024 | comment(s)

In 2020, it was a bad idea to note that, for most people, COVID-19, a coronavirus in the same family as the common cold only known to be distinct from the cold since the 1960s, was just a bad cold, or that wiping down everything with Clorox was doing no good, or that the lab next door to Wuhan with such poor safety protocol that a researcher had been jailed for selling lab animals to the nearby wet market might have accidentally leaked one of the 16,000 coronavirus samples they were doing gain-of-function experiments on.

You were called anti-science or, worse, a Republican.
GMOs Saved Australian Cotton From The Bollworm

GMOs Saved Australian Cotton From The Bollworm

May 30 2024 | comment(s)

GMOs began their chain of success with human insulin, then saved the papaya from extinction in Hawaii, and have since fed billions of humans and trillions of animals without so much as a stomach-ache.

That hasn't stopped competitors, $135 billion in the organic food industry, from funding activist groups to undermine the food supply.
Weekend Science: You Don't Need An Expensive Espresso Grind To Make Great Espresso

Weekend Science: You Don't Need An Expensive Espresso Grind To Make Great Espresso

May 24 2024 | comment(s)

I have three manual espresso machines and a Nespresso and even after years of making them, it can be difficult to get it just right. It takes pressure, understanding the ground beans, and a touch of finesse, which can be more challenging than it sounds.

As beans age they express gases. The carbon dioxide is high right after roasting and after about five days it has leveled out to where you can get the quality, but de-gassing continues to happen, and after a month they are flat. Nothing can stop that physics. It was 1908 Nobel laureate Dr. Ernest Rutherfordwho said, "All science is either physics or stamp collecting", and chemists agreed so much they gave him a Nobel prize. You can slow it down but it will get you.
If You Don't Have A Brain Worm But Still Think GMOs And Cell Phones Cause Cancer, You Have No Excuse

If You Don't Have A Brain Worm But Still Think GMOs And Cell Phones Cause Cancer, You Have No Excuse

May 21 2024 | comment(s)

It was recently revealed that anti-vaccine, anti-cell-phone conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy had a brain worm. Well, claimed by him. Crackpots make lots of claims.

He also claimed during his divorce that he got mercury poisoning from seafood, which was almost as supernatural in its supposed harmful effects back in 2012, according to trial lawyers running environmental groups and the wealthy elites who side with them, as MMR vaccines.
Organic Is Just A Marketing Designation, So Fraud Is Common

Organic Is Just A Marketing Designation, So Fraud Is Common

May 21 2024 | comment(s)

If you buy kosher food, how do you know it is really created using a special process? The same goes with Shade-Tree Grown, Fair Use, Ethical, Sustainable, Organic, and all the rest.(1)
States Sue President Biden Over 2036 Truck Ban

States Sue President Biden Over 2036 Truck Ban

May 15 2024 | comment(s)

To bolster declining electric car sales, President Biden told EPA to create a new emissions standard. The agency put epidemiologists to work and declared that X (fill in any number you like, it's epidemiology, that's what they did) life-years have been lost without electric cars and trucks, and created a new emissions-standard that is effectively a ban on their competitors.
Environmental Groups Sue Biden Administration Over TVA Replacing Coal Plant

Environmental Groups Sue Biden Administration Over TVA Replacing Coal Plant

May 09 2024 | comment(s)

The Tennessee Valley Authority couldn't be done today. When it was done, it transformed an area mired in poverty. With affordable electricity, they had water. With water, they could farm. With farming, food became affordable. 

In a generation, the area was transformed and soon had libraries, schools, and much better quality of life.

Environmentalists need to be needed, it is how they feed their $3 billion-per-year appetite, and so TVA could never happen today. Environmental lawyers are so obstructionist and culturally corrosive, TVA can't even replace a coal plant without a lawsuit.

A coal plant. When activists claim they care about climate change.
Bizarro Vegan Dr Paul Saladino Gives Diet Advice Just As Dangerous For Babies

Bizarro Vegan Dr Paul Saladino Gives Diet Advice Just As Dangerous For Babies

May 08 2024 | comment(s)

If you are a vegan and opt your child out of a nornal diet, they are going to suffer from malnutrition and you may end up in jail.

Dr. Paul Saladino,  on the other end is just as dangerous, because he claims science doesn't exist so infants should be eating honey, raw milk and even meat.
The Fall Of Scientific American Redux

The Fall Of Scientific American Redux

May 07 2024 | comment(s)

For around 15 years, I have joked 'that's why they got sold for a dollar' when nonsense got published in Scientific American and my statement was both funny and factually correct.

They've been in decline for a while, their only hope for survival lay in what The Atlantic and Washington Post also got - a rich progressive (well, 'progressive' when it comes to other people paying taxes while they hide money offshore) who wants to say they own it as a vanity project. They have had that, thanks to the Holtzbrinck family of Germany, since 1986.
With EV Sales Flatlined, Tesla Cancels Its Supercharger Network

With EV Sales Flatlined, Tesla Cancels Its Supercharger Network

May 02 2024 | comment(s)

President Biden was thrilled when Tesla announced it was creating a Tesla Supercharger network, because electric cars were not legitimate until they stopped needing government hand-outs, and few wanted electric cars until they were sure they could charge them on trips.

Which no company wanted to do because there were no government handouts.

Tesla believed it could solve the problem, and President Biden was going to add to an alarming federal deficit to give them handouts, but the problems seem insurmountable, because Tesla pulled out.