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.
...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."
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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.
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...
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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.
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"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.
[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 killerIslamic 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
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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
[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.
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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".
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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.
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“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.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[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
