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Drone strike kills 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
How 'Settled Science' Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:32 || Comments || Link || [336093 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Exhibit #4,325,545 of why I don't trust any health or environmental issue the government tells me about.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Key point from the source article (not this one):
To reliably identify causes, as opposed to correlations, a higher standard of evidence is required: the controlled trial. In its simplest form: recruit a group of subjects, and assign half of them a diet for, say, 15 years. At the end of the trial, assess the health of those in the intervention group, versus the control group. This method is also problematic: it is virtually impossible to closely supervise the diets of large groups of people. But a properly conducted trial is the only way to conclude with any confidence that X is responsible for Y.

To my knowledge, this has NEVER been done for various diet compositions. It probably never will be done.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 10:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Words of wisdom from the source quoted in #2:
...scientific inquiry prone to the eternal rules of human social life: deference to the charismatic, herding towards majority opinion, punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error. Of course, such tendencies are precisely what the scientific method was invented to correct for, and over the long run, it does a good job of it. In the long run, however, we’re all dead, quite possibly sooner than we would be if we hadn’t been following a diet based on poor advice.

This old saw is also relevant "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  haha love the quote

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2017 10:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Executive summary:
"The experts ... aren't"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#6  A prominent scientist in a health related area, told me about 20 years ago that 90% of published papers in his field were worthless crap.

The reality is that a lot of bad science gets published. And then people tenaciously cling to their conclusions whatever the new evidence says, because being wrong is usually a career killer.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/24/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#7  The reality is that a lot of bad science gets published.

And the proportion is accelerating, unfortunately, especially in politicized fields.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 19:20 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Signs Your Anti-Oppression Space Isn't as Welcoming as You Think It Is (With 3 Steps to Make It Better)
Do you believe your communities are safe and welcoming for all? This comic shows some of the ways you can tell if not everyone feels that way. This practical information is vital to our understanding of why intersectionality is a priority.

It’s not about you being a good or bad person, but having better tools ‐ so here are the tools you need to create safer spaces.

With Love,
The Editors at Everyday Feminism
*snork*

Click through for the comic...you have been warned...
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336099 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow! Thanks, Loving Everyday Feminists, now I know how to keep all those "other" people out of my group. Like "antifa" groups, I only want like-minded people to agree with me.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/24/2017 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  AA, those aren't antifa groups, those are Democrats as per Tom Perez.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Some old Jewish guy said it much more efficiently - something like, "love your neighbor as yourself."

Mk 12:31
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  so here are the tools...

The Editors at Everyday Feminism
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 04/24/2017 12:42 Comments || Top||

#5  so here are the tools...

The Editors at Everyday Feminism


I bet they thoughtfully included the batteries for the "tools".
Posted by: Crusader || 04/24/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||

#6  "Tools to create a safe space?" Your space might be a safe space until some f$ckers decide to bring guns and shoot up your safe space just because they are crazy, have a religious beef with you or just hate you or all of the previous. You might need some different tools to protect your safe space at that time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 18:14 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Tracking extremism
[DAWN] THERE is apparently no direct link between the brutal lynching of Mashal Khan, the arrest of Naureen Leghari, a convert to the so-called krazed killer Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group, and the surrender of Jamaatul Ahrar
...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough...
(JuA) leader Ehsanullah Ehsan
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  THERE is apparently no direct link between the brutal lynching of Mashal Khan, the arrest of Naureen Leghari, a (IS) group, and the surrender of Jamaatul Ahrar(JuA) leader Ehsanullah Ehsan

Koran reading?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2017 11:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Those 'Snowflakes' Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus
[Manhattan Institute] Academic intolerance is the product of ideological aggression, not a psychological disorder.

Student thuggery against non-leftist viewpoints is in the news again. Agitators at Claremont McKenna College, Middlebury College, and the University of California’s Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses have used threats, brute force and sometimes criminal violence over the past two months in efforts to prevent Milo Yiannopoulos, Charles Murray, Ann Coulter and me from speaking. As commencement season approaches, expect "traumatized" students to try to disinvite any remotely conservative speaker, an effort already under way at Notre Dame with regard to Vice President Mike Pence.

This soft totalitarianism is routinely misdiagnosed as primarily a psychological disorder. Young "snowflakes," the thinking goes, have been overprotected by helicopter parents, and now are unprepared for the trivial conflicts of ordinary life.

"The Coddling of the American Mind," a 2015 article in the Atlantic, was the most influential treatment of the psychological explanation. The movement to penalize certain ideas is "largely about emotional well-being," argued Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Jonathan Haidt of New York University. The authors took activists’ claims of psychological injury at face value and proposed that freshmen orientations teach students cognitive behavioral therapy so as to preserve their mental health in the face of differing opinions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 09:29 || Comments || Link || [336112 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Think Khmer Rouge or RedGuards
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  A master of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) would/should have more sense than to attend, patronize, donate to, or even speak at, such mis-behaving destroyers of human cognition as these "academies".
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||

#3  The Coddling of the American Mind

Interesting, as if erasure or denial of facts manifests in a tangibly altered environment.

Welcome to generation Eloi.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Sometimes, Skidmark, I think that maybe the Morlocks were actually the good guys.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 12:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe Police Departments need to know that any battery from "Antifa" personnel will be answered with force up to and including deadly.

Maybe the Berkeley-style "stand down" BS will go away?

Maybe I ask too many questions?
Posted by: Pliny Hatfield8470 || 04/24/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Think unarmed Khmer Rouge or RedGuards living behind the shield of their university. When they leave the university setting and try similar tactics they will find they are unemployed and possible beaten.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/24/2017 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  So did nobody notice this article requires a paid subscription to read? Or did the original poster just assume everyone pays for the WSJ?
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 04/24/2017 15:05 Comments || Top||

#8  a non-pay link
Posted by: Frank G || 04/24/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#9  "Academic intolerance is the product of ideological aggression not a and psychological disorder[s]. FIFY
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 16:34 Comments || Top||

#10  IMO, it's just people who secretly know they're second rate acting out.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 16:37 Comments || Top||

#11  "When fascism comes to America it will be called anti-fascism", Huey Long (assassinated) referring to similar quotes by journalists in the 1930's.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 04/24/2017 17:37 Comments || Top||

#12  “intersectionality”—the campus-spawned notion that individuals who can check off multiple victim boxes experience exponentially higher and more complex levels of life-threatening oppression than lower-status single-category victims.

You just can't make this stuff up.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2017 19:11 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2017-04-24
  Drone strike kills 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Sun 2017-04-23
  5 terrorist suspects arrested in Brussels after arms, ammo & drugs seized in police raids
Sat 2017-04-22
  Dozens of About 140 Afghan troops dead in Taliban base attack
Fri 2017-04-21
  ISIS Media Chief dies in airstrike
Thu 2017-04-20
  Paris - cops shot, 1 killed. Suspect dead, Suspicious package left
Wed 2017-04-19
  US: Man screams 'Allahu akbar!' and kills three civilians
Tue 2017-04-18
  Pakistani Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan 'surrenders'
Mon 2017-04-17
  Pirates killed while trying to hijack ship near Somalia
Sun 2017-04-16
  At least 43 killed as car bomb hits Syria evacuees
Sat 2017-04-15
  Islamic State mufti killed in Mosul air strike, Iraqi forces say
Fri 2017-04-14
  Iraqi command says controls 60% of western Mosul
Thu 2017-04-13
  US drops MOAB on ISIS tunnel complex in Afghanistan
Wed 2017-04-12
  Bomb attack on Dortmund team bus
Tue 2017-04-11
  ISIS shells east of Mosul with chlorine gas, 10 casualties
Mon 2017-04-10
  Man steers car into town hall in Germany, fire breaks out

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