Unfortunately, despite its clear fallacies, it’s too appealing to human nature to eradicate it.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Economists
Do they understand business?
Probably not. Certainly Paul Krugman doesn’t. I don’t think he even understands economics.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“…all corporate cultures are flawed in some way. I like to say that anyone who is afraid of competing with a big corporation has never been inside one.”
I think there’s an opportunity for someone to take on Boeing in aviation. SpaceX has already done it in space.
An American Education TImeline
This is a national tragedy. And it’s getting worse with time, not better, other than the fact that more states are allowing vouchers.
Anti-Semitism
Why the media ignore it.
It’s only bad (if even then) when it comes from “the right.
[Friday-morning update]
Quotations From Chairman Maher
Chris Rufo has the receipts. More thoughts from Charles Cooke.
Reverse Gaslighting
Reflections on an anniversary of Covid insanity.
The Next Mania
I agree that it’s “climate change.”
Biden’s Middle-East Policy
…is beyond parody.
The Reckoning Over Puberty Blockers
This was mass physical child abuse on a criminal level. Many should lose their medical licenses. And that’s just the drugs, not the mutilation.
[Update a few days later]
J. K. Rowling and the Cass Report victory. Rowling has been on fire over this.
[Bumped]
A “Fasting-Style” Diet
Seems to have previously unknown benefits to the brain.
The problem with this article is that (a) they don’t really describe what the “fasting-style diet” is, in terms of how long the fast, or what days they do it, and (b), as with most nutrition studies, it’s probably based on self reporting, and it’s not clear that there are any controls.
I do suspect, though, that we didn’t evolved to three squares a day, which would have been hard as hunter gatherers, which is one of the ways that agriculture screwed up our health, though it allowed the existence of orders of magnitude more unhealthy people.
I personally fast almost every day until evening. Dinner (or supper, depending on your local vernacular) is my literal breakfast, though I don’t have bacon and eggs then.