In which it validates Bishop Hill’s predictive model.
Heh.
Category Archives: Science And Society
The Danger Of Health Food
What happens an hour after you drink organic locally grown kale juice?
And yes, it’s satire.
Cholesterol
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.
Our Universe
Is it a fake?
The Illegal Unconstitutional EPA Power Grab
It’s over 1500 pages, with a typo in the executive summary. What kind of “pans”? Cast iron? Gold mining?
Blood Vessels
Some evidence that they can actually improve with age. Interesting.
El Nino
It’s refreshing to see an AP/NYT story that doesn’t try to blame it on SUVs.
A New Anti-Body
Could attack several different strains of flu, and make the annual shot obsolete.
I hope so.
El Nino
What effect might it have on California and the drought? It’s hard to imagine we’ll get a rainy season drier than this past one.
[Late-afternoon update]
More over at Anthony Watts’ place.
Dietary Fat
Why the federal government has been afraid of it.
History will view this as one of the biggest public-health disasters of all time, and (as with climate) based on junk science.