A San Francisco social justice warrior has very little in common with a New York City cop. Yet they are both voting Democrat. They both wrap themselves in the flag of 'liberalism' but the social authoritarians who dominate the fringe arm of liberalism - progressives - are actually ruining it, argues The Economist.

Prior to 2020, if you didn't trust vaccines, there was an alarming likelihood you also bought organic food and supplements and lived in a large US coastal area. During much of the 2010s, California had more kids whose parents refused to vaccinate them than the rest of the entire US combined.Writing in Daily Beast, Louis Anslow lays the blame for concern about the COVID-19 vaccine squarely at their feet, even if corporate journalists have scrambled to sweep their undermining of science under the rug and claim it's all Republicans.

Statistical significance is valid, in the right hands, but in the wrong hands it does nothing but undermine trust in science. And it is almost always in the wrong hands. 

The epidemiologist and hand-picked team leader for the World Health Organization investigation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that erupted in Wuhan says the Chinese made him dismiss any link to the two coronavirus labs in Wuhan.The problem with that narrative; China wanted Peter Ben Embarek leading the investigation. He had lived in Beijing for years and was considered an ally of the communist government inside WHO. WHO had already done everything China said to do, including claiming it did not transmit from human to human. They were certainly going to send in the person the Chinese wanted, for no other reason than that if they weren't allowed in at all, countries funding the UN might start to wonder about their lack of utility.

The First Appellate District court has found that in the glyphosate $2 billion jury award already lopped down to $82 million, while “counsel’s conduct was clearly improper” it wasn’t heinous enough to prejudice the trial results and did not violate federal law. Their lawyer told jurors not to touch a spray bottle without gloves, which is certainly prejudicial to anyone with a clue about science, but the lawsuit was not about science, it was about emotion - and the attorney trying to get rich suing Monsanto simply manufactured emotion.The bottle contained water.

Gilgamesh? Or is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano named Budj Bim the oldest story ever told? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/aboriginal-tale-ancient-volcano-...

Some people swear that turkey makes them sleepy or gluten makes them ill and the science community is not going to spend any time at all thinking about those outside trivia quizzes.And some people have a cup of coffee and then go number two and they think the coffee is causal. Is it, or is it just that, like hunger pangs in people who don't eat for a few hours, some parts of biology are learned?https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/why-does-coffee-make-you-poop-46626165

https://www.sciencecodex.com/epa-announces-plan-end-required-animal-test...

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6187/1246752.abstract?sid=fe30915…...

Roger Moore was in 7 James Bond movies over 12 years while Daniel Craig was in 5 over 14. That doesn't mean two fewer movies in two more years meant a better product. They were both in one great film(1) and one pretty good one.(2) Does being in two more not good ones hurt Moore? And how much more deviation from the books will happen before they are unrecognizable?The Bond novels are 60 years old at this point, there seems little reason to compare them to the films. They are snapshots in time, the way Ernest Hemingway novels are, but unlike Hemingway people still care about Bond, much like they care about Scrooge. That means more fans will read the books.