Who knew he ran a “climate denying” web site?
Seriously, having Google decide what is “true” and false is a really bad idea. For instance, it would probably make it much more difficult to break through all the crap nutrition advice.
A Healthy Lifespan
A new class of drugs dramatically increases it in mice.
Hillary’s Careful Script
The world is failing to follow it:
The trouble for Clinton is that, despite all of her preparation, all of her coordination, the world is going off her script. And for a woman who thinks off-the-cuff speaking is switching from her prepared remarks to her prepared notecards, that’s a scary place.
That is surely why she set up her own private Internet server. Four times at the U.N., Clinton said she had created her “home-brew” e-mail system simply for “convenience.” “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails instead of two,” she said. Never mind that it’s much easier to set up two e-mail systems on one device than it is to set up a whole dark server hidden from the government. And leave aside that a woman who travels with a very large entourage on non-commercial flights could probably manage two devices. I’m sure she’s right. She set up the server for convenience — but not the convenience of sparing her the load of an additional four-ounce phone. When you want to hide what you’re doing, a private server is definitely the way to go.
Hillary has only two comfort zones: deep in a bunker or high on a pedestal. Drag her out of the former or knock her off the latter and she’s at sea.
Read the whole thing. I haven’t take the time yet to go through the transcript and count the lies.
ULA’s New Rocket
I think the full roll out is still planned for the Space Symposium next month.
The Albedo Of The Earth
A potentially revolutionary paper:
The failure of models to reproduce this hemisphere synchronicity raises interesting implications regarding the fidelity of climate model-derived sensitivity to CO2.
That’s an understatement. I’d rephrase: current climate models are utter junk.
Sports Diets
“I ate 5000 calories of saturated fat per day, and this is what happened.”
Carb loading is a crock.
The Oklahoma Expulsion
What speech will justify expulsion next?
As disgusting as their video was, they should sue. This is a very bad precedent.
[Update in the afternoon]
More: “…as for the people in the comments who say that libertarians like me, Eugene Volokh, and FIRE shouldn’t be defending these students: If you only defend speech you agree with, you’re not a free speech advocate, you’re just a partisan hack.”
Yuppers. I hope they sue Boren’s ass off.
Hillary
“If I were a Democrat, I’d be very worried about 2016.”
If this is the best she has to offer, they should be. Because she imagines the traditional smoke and mirrors will work in the 21st century.
The New “Tomorrowland” Trailer
…is very Heinleinian.
Censorship
Many people may find this disappointing. Indeed, punishing those who engage in offensive expression is perennially popular because it gives the impression that we’re “doing something” about the problem of racism, sexism and bigotry. In France, for instance, Holocaust denial has long been illegal, and just this year the country arrested more than 70 people for praising the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. France has put real teeth into laws that punish offensive speech.
Yet according to the Anti-Defamation League, 37% of the French harbor anti-Semitic opinions. In the U.S. — which, thanks to the First Amendment, has never banned Holocaust denial or hateful speech — that number is 9%, among the lowest in the world. While this comparison can’t capture all the differences between the two nations, it strongly suggests that punishing expression is no real cure for bigotry, and refusing to punish hateful speech does not lead inevitably to its spread.
Censorship isn’t necessary for those who are confident in the truth of their views. It’s a signal of insecurity and displays a fear that if an idea is allowed to be expressed, people will find that idea too attractive to resist. Somehow, college administrators are convinced that if they don’t officially punish racism, their students will be drawn to it like moths to a flame. But there’s simply no reason to expect that. Given the history of campus activism in our nation from the civil rights movement onward, there are myriad reasons to expect the opposite.
The solution to bad speech is more speech. And, as Instapundit notes, it’s not surprising that a Democrat doesn’t understand (or care about) the Constitution.