Now it’s Alzheimer’s. It is infuriating, and tragic. In nutrition, in climate, and in medicine in general, the peer-review system is so broken, it would be better to just get rid of it entirely.
[Thursday-morning update]
How Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg corrupted climate science.
[Update a while later]
Tuberculosis vaccine found to be effective against Alzheimer’s. It seems, to the degree that it’s effective at all, to be more prophylactic than a cure.
An interesting history of why the best Star Trek movie ever made wasn’t a bigger hit.
[Afternoon update]
Now that I’ve read the whole thing, I’d like to see a director’s cut with the missing Rickman scenes, and get Weaver to dub in the right word.
…from Maaaaars.
A truly dumb article, disappointing from Quillette.
Why you shouldn’t be doing it.
This is definitely news I can use. I only run when chasing something, or being chased by something, or trying to catch a plane.
Thoughts on J. K. Rowling and the new totalitarianism of wokeness from Dr. Dalrymple.
Howie Carr doesn’t pull any punches.
[Sunday-morning update]
A reckoning will come for these political hacks.
I hope so.
[Bumped]
[Monday-afternoon update]
The FBI’s darkest hour. There may be good people working there, but it’s a corrupt culture.
[Bumped]
Peter Suderman gives it a hearty thumbs down:
Skywalker is a frantic, disjointed mess—not a movie with good ideas poorly executed, not even a movie with bad ideas, but a movie with no ideas at all, save for saccharine paeans to fandom and nostalgia. As a story, it is empty and unengaging to the point of boredom. As a cinematic product, it is surprisingly lackluster, with shoddy effects and muddy visuals. And as an entry in the Star Wars franchise, an ostensibly major part of the pop-culture canon, it is a wasted opportunity: a total failure of both creative imagination and corporate brand management.
But other than that, I’m sure it’s great.
Yes, multiple someones need to go to prison. Or rather, justice requires them to.
[Update a few minutes later]
The problems pointed out by the IG go far beyond “errors” and “sloppiness.” It was a fraud on the court, in order to set up innocent people. And who knows how much more of it has been going on? At a minimum, Flynn’s conviction should be overturned.
[Update a while later]
John Brennan (someone else who should be wearing orange) says that the FBI were “doing their level best.”
[Update a while later]
James Comey is a pathological liar.
Well, yeah, ya think?
[Update late morning]
Horowitz destroys the media lie that he found no political bias.