I suspect that Professor Mann is going to be very sorry he poked that hornet’s nest. Steve Milloy has been tweeting devastating excerpts.
[Afternoon update]
A review from Anthony Watts.
I’m not inclined to comment much myself until my legal issues are resolved.
I wish people wouldn’t report so credulously about this sort of thing.
As with most of these studies, it’s junk science:
At 8:30 in the morning for four weeks, one group of subjects got oatmeal, another got frosted corn flakes and a third got nothing. And the only group to lose weight was … the group that skipped breakfast. Other trials, too, have similarly contradicted the federal advice, showing that skipping breakfast led to lower weight or no change at all.
Emphasis mine. I guess it didn’t occur to them to have a group that got a healthy breakfast, like bacon and eggs.
But at least they do admit that observational studies are worse than worthless.
In which it validates Bishop Hill’s predictive model.
Heh.
“I bought one to rescue me from my phone.”
I’m amused at the younger generation’s disdain for the convenience of wristwatches. I would find it a PITA to have to get out and turn on my phone when I wanted to find out what time it is. I never do so.
Doug Messier has the story:
The tycoon is backing calls for Prestwick airport in Ayrshire to be chosen as the launchpad for commercial space flights and will offer VIP packages for passengers at his nearby Turnberry golf resort if it is.
In its bid, a consortium will unveil Trump as the exclusive hotel partner for rich space tourists jetting into the region from across the globe. Tailor-made packages will include castle tours, visits to distilleries and island-hopping in the Hebrides.
I wonder if he’s been talking to Chuck Lauer?
What happens an hour after you drink organic locally grown kale juice?
And yes, it’s satire.
“Thank God for the atomic bomb.”
It’s always tempting to second-guess things like this, but it was the best decision that could have been made at the time with the information available at the time. Hundreds of thousands of troops were expecting to have to fight (and die) to take the home islands as hard as they just had for Okinawa. And countless Chinese were still being tortured and murdered.
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Roger Kimball:
The idea that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima — and, since the Japanese failed to surrender, of Nagasaki on August 9 — was a ‘war crime’ has slowly acquired currency not only among the anti-American intelligentsia but also among other sentimentalists of limited worldly experience.
Yes. And years ago, Bill Whittle took on the ignorant and not-to-be lamented Jon Stewart on the subject.
Finally. The feds are on the verge of withdrawing decades of unscientific warnings about eating it. But they’ve still got it wrong:
The finding follows an evolution of thinking among many nutritionists who now believe that, for healthy adults, eating foods high in cholesterol may not significantly affect the level of cholesterol in the blood or increase the risk of heart disease.
The greater danger in this regard, these experts believe, lies not in products such as eggs, shrimp or lobster, which are high in cholesterol, but in too many servings of foods heavy with saturated fats, such as fatty meats, whole milk, and butter.
There is zero scientific evidence that eating saturated fat is a problem. Zero. And yet they persist.
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[Wednesday-morning update]
Sorry, missing link. Fixed.