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 →
You be the judge: Note what she is saying and what she’s not saying. She’s saying it was not a leak, but rather a purposeful release. She’s saying that once the Chinese government realized how transmissible it was, they allowed … Continue reading →
Or maybe several movies? It’s not very reassuring: In a blog post Wednesday night, Bing said it was working to fix the confusing answers and aggressive tone exhibited by the bot, after tech outlets exposed that the bot gaslights and … Continue reading →
Commeter “Banned Lizard” recently linked to this: Dr. Ryan Cole’s Biopsy Results May Explain The Shocking Rise In “Mysterious” Cancers — He Explains There Is Spike Protein “Inside Every Single Cancer Cell” “What’s inside of every cancer cell? Spike protein. … Continue reading →
File under “things we don’t understand”: Astronomers have discovered an entirely new ring system within the solar system, and it’s located at such a great distance from its dwarf planet parent that it should be impossible. The ring surrounds Quaoar, … Continue reading →