I’ve read quite a few MSM articles on the SCOTUS ruling about the abortion pill, and the reporting lacked so many of the details I was looking for that I ended up turning to law blogs and the plaintiffs’ brief … Continue reading →
Here’s an article about a woman whose mother died of Alzheimer’s, and who decided to get tested for the Alzheimer’s genetic marker in hopes it might reassure her, and discovered she actually has a double dose of the gene that … Continue reading →
It boggles the mind. This is the news: For 35 years, the Emsland nuclear power plant in northwestern Germany has reliably provided millions of homes with electricity and many with well-paid jobs in what was once an agricultural backwater. Now, … Continue reading →
No more. It’s not as though science has always been a pure meritocracy, however. For example, even I can remember, back in my youth, when women were discouraged in many ways from going into scientific fields, although it was possible … Continue reading →
Every time there’s a school shooting or any sort of mass violence, the subject of SSRIs comes up from one commenter or another. Sometimes people also bring up the subject of fatherlessness and mass shooters, which I wrote about at … Continue reading →
Even some Democrats realize that the Biden administration’s war on gas stoves is unpopular: …[O]ver two dozen Democrats in the House of Representatives joined Republicans to approve an amendment preventing the Department of Energy from implementing strict new regulations on … Continue reading →
That title sounds to me like the beginning of a poem. Strange and interesting news: The moon is strewn with minuscule beads of glass that have formed over billions of years as soil ejected during asteroid impacts cools and falls … Continue reading →
I thought I’d highlight this comment by “Sgt. Joe Friday,” who lists ways in which AGW climate science has become a quasi-religion: End of the world prophecy? Check. We’ve got 12 years left to save the planet. Dietary restrictions? Check. … Continue reading →
Commenter “Frederick” makes a good point about retractions of research results: The retractions and replication problems affect some sciences way more than others. Physics, chemistry, math, hardly at all. Medicine, psychology, social sciences, quite a bit. To oversimplify, some disciplines … Continue reading →
This article by Colin Wright, “Understanding the Sex Binary,” may seem somewhat esoteric, but it deals with an important distinction in the trans debate. Here’s how Wright puts it: The “sex binary” refers to the biological reality that there are … Continue reading →
While trying to read this rather dense piece of social science research, I came across this portion quite a ways into it: …[I]t should also be recognized that the SAPA Project relies on participants finding or seeking out the survey; … Continue reading →
Okay, so it’s long. An hour and a half long. You can speed it up by changing the settings (as I often do with interviews), but there’s no getting around the fact that, even then, it’ll be long. Of course, … Continue reading →