I get so mad when people take up a crusade based on cherry picked studies and lawyers with big mouths.
Continue reading Pro Football Players Healthier–no big surprise
Category: Researcher Misconduct
Pause? Cause? Gotta Question?
I am just a simple emergency physician, but I know when I’m dealing with people who haven’t a clue.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/01/settled-science-new-paper-finds-effect.html
Marita Downs Another Enviro Doofus–CJ Somerville
Marita is an energy advocate, and prolific writer and lecturer.
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John Coleman, Charming Weatherman
When I was a young man in Omaha, John Coleman was our weatherman on TV. Channel 7–went on to national prominence then founded the Weather Channel. Now does TV weather again in San Diego.
Great voice, charismatic, great singer too.
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Western Civ Must Survive–Support the National Association of Scholars
This essay about the battle to save Western Civ and meaning of Western Civilization Studies was compelling.
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Is the Academy an Honest Place?
Repeatedly we are reminded of unreliable research in economics, social sciences, even some of the hard sciences.
Political agendas and intellectual passion can result in cargo cult science.
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More from Thomas Sowell on Facts and Fantasy
Thomas Sowell continues his series of essays on fact free liberal thinking.
We already put up the first and II.
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A Little About Scientific misconduct.
Patrick Michaels discusses scientific misconduct and how research can be corrupted.
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/when-it-comes-truth-about-drug-addiction-scientists-are-breaking-bad
Caramel Cancer Scare
Here we go again. Colas have color, makes them more attractive for the consumer.
As we all know toxicity and carcinogenicity studies in rodents–not a reliable measure.
But they can still make crazy claims.
http://acsh.org/2014/01/go-another-phony-chemical-scare-4-methylimidazole-4-mei-get-ready-laugh/
Econ 102, the Michigan Longitudinal Study
Everybody likes to talk about money.
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Sowell on the Minumum Wage
The continuing battle on minimum wage ignores the obvious, that the minimum wage gambit is about the union contracts already in place, that provide for an increase in the wage for the union workers based on minimum wage increases.
Separate from that, entry level workers are not looking for the wage that will make them able to support a family and live a life, they are looking for a start.
I had a simple little job as a young person–certainly nothing to keep me going for my life, but also something that allowed me to get going.
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Thomas Sowell, National Treasure
Sowell is a PhD economist, so he knows his statistics.
In this essay he recites what JunkScience.com is all about, exposing bad research, lack of wisdom, and historical ignorance.
http://spectator.org/print/57477