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Category Archives: Odds and ends
Study: Benefit of cycle helmet laws to reduce head injuries still uncertain
Even with a helmet, cyclists who choose to mix it up with cars are playing a dangerous game. Continue reading
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Nature Study: Global central planning would ensure ‘world’s technological, socio-economic, and environmental systems’ don’t become ‘global time bombs’
Professor Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich’s Risk Center clearly missed the 20th century. Continue reading
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Study: Environmental Labels May Discourage Conservatives from Buying Energy-Efficient Products
Probably because environmental labels are like a sign flashing “CAUTION: THIS PRODUCT IS A JUNK SCIENCE-BASED RIP-OFF!” Continue reading
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Claim: Sleeping duration linked with higher colon cancer risk
Dubious if not automatically self-debunking — data from the perpetual junk science machine (i.e., self-reported and unverified data, multiple inquiry fallacy) known as the Nurses Health Study. Continue reading
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April Fools’ prank about ‘dihydrogen monoxide’ in water gets Florida deejays suspended
Dihydrogen monoxide is no laughing matter. Continue reading
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Large asteroid heading to Earth? Pray, says NASA; 1 km-sized asteroid could ‘plausibly end civilization’
Please go back to worrying about what the temperature nowhere on Earth will be in 100 years. Continue reading
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Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat
Meanwhile, deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria are stalking hospitals. Continue reading
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Lance Armstrong, Nutrition Products Sponsor Accused in Suit of False Advertising
“The cyclist was also sued yesterday with FRS Co., a nutritional products maker for which he served as spokesman, in Los Angeles federal court by consumers claiming Armstrong and the company engaged in false advertising by linking his Tour de France victories to FRS products.” Continue reading
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F-35 fleet remains grounded as DOD tests continue
Not junk science — just junk. Continue reading
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Study: Tanning parlors may misinform clients about risks
Are federal regulations coming — and will beaches and pools be required to post them as well? Continue reading
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Nice Mother: Calls her love child with former Sen. Pete Domenici a ‘mistake’
The 34-year-old “mistake” is a former Navy officer and lawyer. Continue reading
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WashTimes: Another government gas boondoggle
“Time to deflate the strategic helium reserve.” Continue reading
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‘Russia Shot Down The Meteor’ Theory Spreads Online
“The global news impact of the Russian meteorite has far outstripped the actual physical impact of the object today, reminding us just how quickly information, and potential disinformation, can spread via the internet.” Continue reading
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Denier: Russian lawmaker says US weapons test, not meteorite caused deadly explosion
“Those aren’t meteors falling, it’s the Americans testing new weapons.” Continue reading
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Study: Facial width predicts racial prejudice
The wider your face, the more likely you are to be a racist? The Nazis did this type of crap to assess racial purity. Now a Dartmouth post-doc is doing it to assess racist tendencies? Really? Continue reading
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‘Shooting Therapy’ Did Not Kill Navy SEAL Chris Kyle
“But Dr. Edna Foa, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, says that what Chris Kyle was doing with Eddie Ray Routh was not only not prolonged exposure therapy, it wasn’t any kind of therapy at all. Dr. Foa should know; she invented prolonged exposure therapy.” Continue reading
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Device Setting Triggered Super Bowl Outage
“Human error appears to have played a role in the partial power outage that disrupted the Super Bowl last Sunday in New Orleans.” Continue reading
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Florida judge approves birth certificate listing three parents
A 3-way guardianship is understandable in the define-your-own-family era. But three parents on a birth certificate? Continue reading
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