Re: scientists falsifying data and results. Science is really a hot mess these days. You do research, construct experiments to prove your theories. It works, yea! You haven’t wasted the money you were given! You get more money! The experiment didn’t work. Oh no! No one will ever give you money again! Maybe you fudge some data, so you can get more money, and send your work out for peer review. Your peers don’t have the time or money to replicate your work, so they look at your work and say it looks good to me. And around it goes. Everyone expects the government to fund science. Why aren’t those colleges with endowments in the billions fund all the research that happens on their campuses.
Neo, I love this blog! I get to fantasize about a better world.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/07/20/holy-environy-scotland-cuts-down-forest-to-make-room-for-windmills-n1712075

Now before you go worrying your pretty little head about spotted owls and the barred owls that eat them or whatever creature you fancy, this forest-sized mass of trees has been systematically chopped down for years. Indeed, they’ve been cutting down these trees at a rate of 1,700 per day for the past 23 years. This is into the billions of board feet of timber brought down and used hopefully to good purposes, but it’s the Scottish government so who knows.
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So let’s do the back-of-the-envelope math here. They’re chopping down trees, reducing the O2 output of that region, because, unless they’ve replaced the study of photosynthesis with another new sex toy exhibit, most school kids remember that trees and green plants produce oxygen. At the same time, the tree chopping also increases the CO2 output. Trees are CO2 sinks. When the trees are processed or burned in a wildfire, they release the CO2.
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Not only do windmills not produce energy when the winds don’t blow, but they also don’t work when they’re cold.

Scotland understands this issue, and it brings us to our next environy with their windmills. When it gets cold Scotland has equipped all the windmills with diesel engines to make them chop, chop, chop, and kill the birds.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/tracy_chapman_has_the_last_laugh.html

Seems Chapman was no oppressed artist because she was black — she was a major, major singer whose work is so contagious it not only gave the country charts their number one hit today, it gave her own musical categories number one hits, too.

That’s not someone repressed, as the Post claims, that is a rare and spectacular talent recognized by fans across the board, not just in the 1980s but now, too. To claim that country music represses black singers unless they have a white “middleman” is ridiculous, give what Chapman’s songs are doing on the charts — they succeed wherever they go. This is testimony to the power and talent of Chapman’s work that it can span decades and still hit number one on a re-release, and that it can do that in more than one musical genre.

No wonder Chapman had no time for the Post’s whining — they seemed to consider her a minor talent or something.

With numbers like these, she just made their claims look stupid.

She must be marveling at how little they knew about who she was and how irrelevant their claims of racial grievances were. How can she not be having the last laugh?

Does anyone on the Left even consider doing basic research anymore (if they ever did)?

Seems like there is a story every day that contains, in addition to the bias, laughable ignorance.

In 2022, Stanford University opened an investigation into allegations of Tessier-Lavigne’s involvement in fabricating results in articles published between 2001 and 2008. The report was released yesterday. Details at the link below. Predictably, Tessier-Lavigne claims he was too trusting of his students and postdocs: “In his open letter to the Stanford community, Tessier-Lavigne suggested he was the victim of having shown too much ‘trust’ in the work of students and postdoctoral researchers.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stanford-university-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-announces-resignati-rcna95141

Wow! That’s amazing!

I’ve got a bit of cultural whiplash discovering that Tracy Chapman’s 80s hit, “Fast Car” (1988) is now in the Country charts covered by Luke Combs. With total respect I must add.

Chapman is a black leftist social activist. Her other 80s hit was the leftist anthem, “Talkin’ About a Revolution.”

However, I stand with Luke Combs that “Fast Car” is a heartbreaking masterpiece about trying to find one’s way up from the bottom, which transcends right and left. It reads just fine as a current country song.
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You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we’ll make something
Me, myself, I got nothing to prove

–Luke Combs, “Fast Car (Official Live Video)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7oYjnt3bM
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The left is losing it that a country guy would cover “Fast Car” and country fans would swoon. I’m pleased to say that Tracy Chapman welcomes Combs cover.
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I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I’m honored to be there.

–Tracy Chapman,
https://people.com/tracy-chapman-reveals-thoughts-luke-combs-fast-car-cover-7557516

https://summit.news/2023/07/19/youtube-is-pulling-sound-of-freedom-interviews-reviews/