Nice one, Wes
Going to get Jordan Peterson to address officials overseeing dietary guidelines next? Have Jeremy Clarkson set the environmental agenda?
Might as well do at this point. They've all sold loads of books too, that's all the qualifications you need, right?
2012 is still one of the top unintentional comedies of all time.
missed this WORT coverage last week on the absolute trash fire of the attempted bodycam pilot in the North district: https://www.wortfm.org/independent-monitor-finds-severe-flaws-in-mpds-body-cam-pilot-study/
it's worth skimming the OIM report linked there
they were ordered to do a randomized controlled trial and track their additional time required
instead they did none of that and hired a statistician who gets paid by a body cam company to badly misinterpret their not-at-all-RCT data
This graphic is floating around the right-wing Internet... Obviously it's insane, but even so, I have some questions for people who might believe it.
(For now, anyone with half a brain and a basic knowledge of science, graphs and politics, you will have to suspend your brain and accept the chart as something legitimate instead of a paint splat with random words on it.)
1. Has the right finally disavowed itself of Antivaxxers? I mean, great, but that's news to me! I see they are still keeping the Climate Change Deniers though.
2. I am not sure why these liberals would be calling Social Democrats, Social Liberals and Liberal Democrats "fascists" because that's just not linguistically or academically correct, it's a semantic train wreck and a logical fallacy all on one track.
3. "Don't tread on me" - I know the Libertarians are often nuts, but I don't think people are calling them fascists. In fact they are the ones calling the right fascists at the moment, aint'cha Ron Paul!
4. Fascism (or what it calls the "Lunatic Fringe") is apparently immune from being called Fascist by the anti-fascists. I have no idea how that one even works.
5. How is "Science, Intelligence and Logic" in the same camp as Climate Deniers, Neocons (the Religions Nationalists), and the Alt-Right?
6. The Neocons and the Alt-Right hate each other, why are they next to each other in the same segment?
7. How come Anti-fascists are not calling Fundamentalism and Corporatism "fascists" as well?
8. Why is "Antifa" in the maroon slice? Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Reagan, Eisenhower and many other heroes of the 20th Century were proudly AntiFa, and I don't think they were Socialists or Communists. I’m guessing Statism’s there just to make it look clever, because it doesn't fit at all.
9. WHERE ARE THE POOR ANARCHISTS?
10. Do the colours mean anything?
#ArseGravy #Politics #AntiFa #Antifascist #BadScience #Memes #Graphs #AntiVaxx #ClimateChange #USA #USPol #Europe #WW2
However they also say:
R. A. Carlos recently reported on an alarming five-fold increase in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on the island of Guam from 2016 to 2022. He reviewed 95 studies and concluded that the increased trend paralleled the widespread exposure of young children to microplastics.
and the citation given is to the abstract of a conference presentation which ACTUALLY says the author reviewed 95 studies for "neurotoxic effects of microplastics on other species, including fish, mice, mollusks, nematodes, crustaceans and chicken" not to find fricken autistic crustaceans but to find neurotoxicity.
But autism definitely isn't neurotoxicity in general, and probably isn't in any specific way.
So what we're left with is an observation of 5x ASD and plastics exposure on Guam. Is it not likely that whatever societal changes increased plastic use to skyrocket 5x also caused other seismic shifts in behaviour and exposure and - dare I guess - autism testing?
#autism #microplastics #nanoplastics #badJournalism #badScience #health #news #GlobeAndMail
Another wonderful, fact-laden rant by Hank Green debunking the Trump/RFKJr autism crap we saw this week. He brings the numbers, including the ones the perpetrators excluded because they'd ruin the credibility of their assertions.
Alas, I don't have much hope that this will change the minds of the people pushing this bad "science". But the rest of us should know this.
Trump Admin Tells Expecting Mothers To Avoid Tylenol Due To Unproven Link To Autism
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Dean Burnett (that brains guy)
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
D. G. Fitch
Lorry
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John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY
datum (n=1)
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