Yes, it’s stupid. There is zero science behind it.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
California’s War On Bacon
This may be the last straw for a lot of Californians who have been thinking about pulling up stakes.
The Real Human Exploration Of The Solar System
NASA’s plans are going to look increasingly absurd as the decade progresses.
The Jews
Everybody hates them.
A slight exaggeration, of course, but they do get it from both sides.
Gary Taubes
Did his own institute disprove his nutrition theory?
I’d like to see details on the study. This article focuses on weight loss, and ignores other health benefits of not eating crap. I’ve certainly not been doing it for weight loss, but rather to reduce my serum cholesterol and triglycerides, and improve my A1C. Also, if you’re converting fat to muscle, you’re not losing weight, but you’re getting a lot healthier.
“Science,” They Said
VDH on the increasing ridiculousness of our vaunted public-health establishment.
A Fatally Flawed Paradigm
How it has derailed the science of obesity.
The Black Mark Of A Bachelors degree
Yes, I look forward to that day, too.
Back in the eighties, when I was trying to get management at Rockwell to buy clones instead of IBM PCs, because we could have three times as many machines for the money, when the saying was “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM,” I’d say, “When I’m in charge, I’ll fire someone for buying IBM.”
Freedom
Why it is in serious jeopardy.
The Week In Pictures
The long strange trip edition.
I don’t have much to say on this 20th anniversary, other than it appears that the terrorists, both overseas and domestic, won. And I am not referring to what happened on January 6th.
[Afternoon update]
A much longer (and depressing) version of what I wrote above.
[Sunday-morning update]