Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Black Coffee, Psychopaths, and Pseudoscience | Intellectual Takeout
Black Coffee, Psychopaths, and Pseudoscience | Intellectual Takeout:
...“The study in question does not actually say that people who take their coffee black have psychopathic tendencies.
The researchers who wrote the study didn’t actually ask anyone about whether they take their coffee black.
And what the study does say about the relationship between taste preferences and personality traits is probably meaningless and worth ignoring.”
- The internet says if you drink black coffee you're more likely to be a psychopath. So it must be true, right?
A “news story” currently trending online suggests that psychopaths take their coffee black.
Or taking your coffee black is a sign of psychopathic tendencies.
Or something.
Or taking your coffee black is a sign of psychopathic tendencies.
Or something.
I take offense to this--not because I drink black coffee, but because it’s so tiring.
For starters, this study is old.
It was pounded to death in 2015, and even then media couldn’t get it right.
For starters, this study is old.
It was pounded to death in 2015, and even then media couldn’t get it right.
...“The study in question does not actually say that people who take their coffee black have psychopathic tendencies.The researchers who wrote the study didn’t actually ask anyone about whether they take their coffee black.
And what the study does say about the relationship between taste preferences and personality traits is probably meaningless and worth ignoring.”
If you wish to read the actual study for yourself, you can do so here.
Which brings me to the science and the study itself.
Which brings me to the science and the study itself.
Is anyone else skeptical of the value of such a scientific pursuit?
Today we laugh at the scientists of the past who practiced in pseudomedicine, such as those kooky phrenologists who believed the shape of one’s skull determined one’s psychological attributes and intellectual abilities..."
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FBI, warned early and often that Manafort file might be fake, used it anyway | TheHill
FBI, warned early and often that Manafort file might be fake, used it anyway | TheHill:
The second document, known as the “black cash ledger,” remarkably has escaped the same scrutiny, even though its emergence in Ukraine in the summer of 2016 forced Paul Manafort to resign as Trump's campaign chairman and eventually face U.S. indictment.
In search warrant affidavits, the FBI portrayed the ledger as one reason it resurrected a criminal case against Manafort that was dropped in 2014 and needed search warrants in 2017 for bank records to prove he worked for the Russian-backed Party of Regions in Ukraine.
There’s just one problem: The FBI’s public reliance on the ledger came months after the feds were warned repeatedly that the document couldn’t be trusted and likely was a fake, according to documents and more than a dozen interviews with knowledgeable sources.
In search warrant affidavits, the FBI portrayed the ledger as one reason it resurrected a criminal case against Manafort that was dropped in 2014 and needed search warrants in 2017 for bank records to prove he worked for the Russian-backed Party of Regions in Ukraine.
There’s just one problem: The FBI’s public reliance on the ledger came months after the feds were warned repeatedly that the document couldn’t be trusted and likely was a fake, according to documents and more than a dozen interviews with knowledgeable sources.
Fake News and Fake Education? - WSJ
Fake News and Fake Education? - WSJ"The good news is that people who disagree with you about politics aren’t nearly as unreasonable as you think.
The bad news is that you are going to have a very hard time learning about them—unless of course you decide to talk to them.
These are the findings of a new study suggesting that news media and academic institutions generally aren’t providing the straight story.
Amanda Ripley writes in the Washington Post about liberals and conservatives in the U.S. and their perceptions of each other:
Americans on each side imagine that almost twice as many people on the other side hold extreme views than actually do, scholars Daniel Yudkin, Stephen Hawkins and Tim Dixon explain in a new report, “The Perception Gap.” The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan organization More in Common and the polling firm YouGov, was taken just after the 2018 midterms...
This column can’t vouch for the assertion that the staff of More in Common is “nonpartisan.” The study seems to find much greater fault with right-leaning than left-leaning media outfits..."
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History for June 25
History for June 25 - On-This-Day.com
Henry "Hap" Arnold 1886, Lord Louis Mountbatten (Burma) 1900, George Orwell 1903
June Lockhart 1925, Carly Simon 1945, George Michael 1963
1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
Monday, June 24, 2019
Trump Cuts Obama's Syrian Refugee Surge by More Than 60 Percent
Trump Cuts Obama's Syrian Refugee Surge by More Than 60 Percent:
President Trump has reduced the number of Syrian refugees entering the United States by more than 60 percent compared to former President Obama’s surge of Syrian nationals arriving in the country.
Since Trump’s inauguration, he has reduced the levels at which Syrian refugees are arriving in the U.S. Between January 20, 2017, and June 2019, only about 2,419 Syrian refugees have entered the country — nearly 97 percent of which are Muslim and 1.4 percent of which are Christians and Catholics.
President Trump has reduced the number of Syrian refugees entering the United States by more than 60 percent compared to former President Obama’s surge of Syrian nationals arriving in the country.
Since Trump’s inauguration, he has reduced the levels at which Syrian refugees are arriving in the U.S. Between January 20, 2017, and June 2019, only about 2,419 Syrian refugees have entered the country — nearly 97 percent of which are Muslim and 1.4 percent of which are Christians and Catholics.
Oberlin College newspaper editorial blames 'increasingly authoritarian country' for school's legal trouble
Oberlin College newspaper editorial blames 'increasingly authoritarian country' for school's legal trouble
Oberlin College's student newspaper editorial board blasted national media coverage of the Gibson’s Bakery trial, saying that it “misses the mark,” and that the ruling is part of an “increasingly authoritarian country.”
...Members of the editorial board “identified three of the key ways that existing coverage has skewed of misrepresented events leading up to the trial.”
First, the board claims that Gibson’s employees have had a pretty good amount of control in the media because the initial police report was “wildly prejudiced in favor of Gibson’s.”
They claim that there was no perspective from any of the three African Americans in the police report.
“This omission is meaningful — particularly in a country with a long and shameful history of manipulating testimony and evidence to criminalize people of color, especially Black people,” the board stated.”
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- Oberlin College's student newspaper published an editorial taking aim at the media's coverage of the Oberlin College defamation case.
- The editorial board also cited an "increasingly authoritarian country."
Oberlin College's student newspaper editorial board blasted national media coverage of the Gibson’s Bakery trial, saying that it “misses the mark,” and that the ruling is part of an “increasingly authoritarian country.”...Members of the editorial board “identified three of the key ways that existing coverage has skewed of misrepresented events leading up to the trial.”
First, the board claims that Gibson’s employees have had a pretty good amount of control in the media because the initial police report was “wildly prejudiced in favor of Gibson’s.”
They claim that there was no perspective from any of the three African Americans in the police report.
“This omission is meaningful — particularly in a country with a long and shameful history of manipulating testimony and evidence to criminalize people of color, especially Black people,” the board stated.”
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Knitting And Crochet Site Bans Any Indication Of Trump Support | PA Pundits - International
Knitting And Crochet Site Bans Any Indication Of Trump Support | PA Pundits - International
"You would think that the last place for an outbreak of extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome would be a website devoted to knitting and crocheting.
Well, these are not normal times and such a case of TDS to the extent that the Thought Crime of just expressing approval of President Donald Trump would be punished by banishment from the Ravelry website.
Here are their June 23 banishment rules, “New Policy: Do Not Post In Support of Trump or his Administration,” in which although any type of Trump support is taboo, it is still okay to declare yourself to be a Bolshevik or to support Elizabeth Warren for president:
"You would think that the last place for an outbreak of extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome would be a website devoted to knitting and crocheting.
Well, these are not normal times and such a case of TDS to the extent that the Thought Crime of just expressing approval of President Donald Trump would be punished by banishment from the Ravelry website.
Here are their June 23 banishment rules, “New Policy: Do Not Post In Support of Trump or his Administration,” in which although any type of Trump support is taboo, it is still okay to declare yourself to be a Bolshevik or to support Elizabeth Warren for president:We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry.This includes support in the form of forum posts, projects, patterns, profiles, and all other content. Note that your project data will never be deleted. We will never delete your Ravelry project data for any reason and if a project needs to be removed from the site, we will make sure that you have access to your data. If you are permanently banned from Ravelry, you will still be able to access any patterns that you purchased. Also, we will make sure that you receive a copy of your data.We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy.
So Ravelry is calling about half of America white supremacists for supporting Trump.
The good news is you can still knit socks with red hammer and sickle patterns..."
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What was Mueller up to? His victims speak | Power Line
Earlier this month RealClearPolitics posted Paul Sperry’s intensely reported account of the Mueller investigation from the perspective of its objects in “‘Scorched Earth’: Mueller’s Targets Speak Out.” Sperry prefaced his report:
Hate is their core--Liberal PAC Urges Donors To ‘Take Out’ Republican Congressman…
Instapundit Blog Archive--Liberal PAC Urges Donors To ‘Take Out’ Republican Congressman Who Surv…--MAY 31, 2018 (and it's gotten worse!)
ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Liberal PAC Urges Donors To ‘Take Out’ Republican Congressman Who Survived Being Shot Last Year.
CNN analyst Chris Cillizza deletes tweet showing Trump in crosshairs.
Related: How a Bernie Bro Nearly Committed the Biggest Political Killing In American History.
Plus, earlier:
CNN analyst Chris Cillizza deletes tweet showing Trump in crosshairs.
Related: How a Bernie Bro Nearly Committed the Biggest Political Killing In American History.
Plus, earlier:
- “Democrats should fight dirty, play dirty, beg, borrow, steal, do whatever it takes. ‘When they go low, we go high’ doesn’t work. Playing nice got us to this point with President Trump,” the New York Times tweets.
- NBC’S Rachel Maddow Show Sparked FBI Investigation Into Death Threats Against Mcconnell, Pruitt.
- Rand Paul: Recovery after attack ‘was a living hell.’
- Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.
- FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his appearance at CES because of death threats.
- Terry McAuliffe says he’d punch Trump: ‘You’d have to pick him up off the floor.’--Posted by
Missouri bill would allow outdoor cremations for public
Missouri bill would allow outdoor cremations for publicJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) —
A bill dubbed the "Jedi Disposal Act" could soon make Missouri the first state to allow outdoor cremations.
The bill would allow licensed funeral directors to organize outdoor cremations at licensed crematoriums or private sites that have permits, The Kansas City Star reported .
The bill got its name from the "Star Wars" movie franchise, in which two Jedi Knights are cremated in public ceremonies.
...Funeral directors initially resisted the proposal out of fear people would host impromptu bonfires of deceased loved ones in their backyards, said Don Otto, executive director of the Missouri Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association..."
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‘Climate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars
‘Climate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars:
Drivers will be forced off the roads in Ireland and the population packed into “higher density” cities under a long-awaited climate plan which will ‘revolutionise’ people’s lifestyle and behaviours, according to local media.
“Nudge” policies such as huge tax hikes, as well as bans and red tape outlined in the plan, will pave the way to a “vibrant” Ireland of zero carbon emissions by 2050 according to the government, which last year committed to boost the country’s 4.7 million-strong population by a further million with mass migration.
Drivers will be forced off the roads in Ireland and the population packed into “higher density” cities under a long-awaited climate plan which will ‘revolutionise’ people’s lifestyle and behaviours, according to local media.“Nudge” policies such as huge tax hikes, as well as bans and red tape outlined in the plan, will pave the way to a “vibrant” Ireland of zero carbon emissions by 2050 according to the government, which last year committed to boost the country’s 4.7 million-strong population by a further million with mass migration.
Trump Dodged An Ambush By Avoiding War With Iran
Trump Dodged An Ambush By Avoiding War With Iran
"... Donald Trump has refused to take the sucker’s bait and engage us in open war with Iran.
...Let’s clarify some things.
Iran is our enemy – the notion that we might wish to avoid being drawn into open conflict today does not mean these mullah bastards don’t deserve to be hanged from the very cranes they use to murder gays, women who refuse hijab oppression and people who like freedom.
...Let’s clarify another thing. Iran and our liberal elite both seemed eager for open war.
...They wanted to be attacked.
...There’s no other reasonable explanation.
...And our elite also wanted Trump to attack.
Why?
...“Hey, wait,” one might ask. “Weren’t we just talking about one airstrike and that’s it?”
Well, the advocates in DC were, but Iran might have had other ideas.
After all, the enemy gets a vote, and it could have voted to massacre Americans still in Iraq or elsewhere.
Once you jump into war, you lose the ability to jump out when things get ugly.
Is it possible that the John Kerry/Ben Rhodes Iranophile faction, still stinging because Trump binned their disastrous Iran Deal and exercising their liberal free pass on the Logan Act, told the mullahs to provoke Trump with some non-fatal pokes in order to weaken him domestically and help restore the rule of people who always put American interests last?
That is, Democrats.
I don’t know, but can we really rule that out?
We keep hearing from these people about how Trump is an existential threat to America, and if they really believe that, is it so nuts to think they might canoodle with Tehran to defeat him?
If you had told me a few years ago the entire senior DoJ and FBI would conspire to pull off a soft coup to undo an election, I might have advised you to take a deep breath and chill.
But then I watched it happen.
So, I don’t know if it this is what went down, but no one can say you’re insane for thinking it could. And that possibility had to enter into Trump’s calculations..."
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"... Donald Trump has refused to take the sucker’s bait and engage us in open war with Iran.
...Let’s clarify some things.
Iran is our enemy – the notion that we might wish to avoid being drawn into open conflict today does not mean these mullah bastards don’t deserve to be hanged from the very cranes they use to murder gays, women who refuse hijab oppression and people who like freedom.
...Let’s clarify another thing. Iran and our liberal elite both seemed eager for open war.
...They wanted to be attacked.
...There’s no other reasonable explanation.
...And our elite also wanted Trump to attack.
Why?...“Hey, wait,” one might ask. “Weren’t we just talking about one airstrike and that’s it?”
Well, the advocates in DC were, but Iran might have had other ideas.
After all, the enemy gets a vote, and it could have voted to massacre Americans still in Iraq or elsewhere.
Once you jump into war, you lose the ability to jump out when things get ugly.
- Let’s talk conspiracy theories.
Is it possible that the John Kerry/Ben Rhodes Iranophile faction, still stinging because Trump binned their disastrous Iran Deal and exercising their liberal free pass on the Logan Act, told the mullahs to provoke Trump with some non-fatal pokes in order to weaken him domestically and help restore the rule of people who always put American interests last?
That is, Democrats.
I don’t know, but can we really rule that out?
If you had told me a few years ago the entire senior DoJ and FBI would conspire to pull off a soft coup to undo an election, I might have advised you to take a deep breath and chill.
But then I watched it happen.
So, I don’t know if it this is what went down, but no one can say you’re insane for thinking it could. And that possibility had to enter into Trump’s calculations..."
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‘Climate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars While Planning Mass Third World Migration | Watts Up With That?
‘Climate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars While Planning Mass Third World Migration | Watts Up With That?
"Drivers will be forced off the roads in Ireland and the population packed into “higher density” cities under a long-awaited climate plan which will ‘revolutionise’ people’s lifestyle and behaviours, according to local media.
“Nudge” policies such as huge tax hikes, as well as bans and red tape outlined in the plan, will pave the way to a “vibrant” Ireland of zero carbon emissions by 2050 according to the government, which last year committed to boost the country’s 4.7 million-strong population by a further million with mass migration.
In order to avert a “climate apocalypse”, the government plans to force people “out of private cars because they are the biggest offenders for emissions”, according to transport minister Shane Ross whose proposals — which include banning fossil fuel vehicles from towns and cities nationwide — are posed to cripple ordinary motorists, local media reports..."
In order to avert a “climate apocalypse”, the government plans to force people “out of private cars because they are the biggest offenders for emissions”, according to transport minister Shane Ross whose proposals — which include banning fossil fuel vehicles from towns and cities nationwide — are posed to cripple ordinary motorists, local media reports..."
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A Talk Radio Listener Says That By Standards Harvard Is Holding Kyle Kashuv To, No One Is Safe, Including Harvard | Letters | VDARE.com
A Talk Radio Listener Says That By Standards Harvard Is Holding Kyle Kashuv To, No One Is Safe, Including Harvard | Letters | VDARE.com"Parkland mass shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv (who has taken the conservative, pro-gun rights position on Twitter, in contrast to David Hogg) was turned in by someone for having used the "n-word" when we was 16, and as a result, he's not getting into Harvard.
[A Parkland shooting survivor had his Harvard acceptance rescinded after his past racist comments surfaced online, by Dialynn Dwyer, June 17, 2019]
Apparently Harvard felt they made a mistake when they admitted him and were looking for an excuse to get rid of him.
If this is precedent, nearly all the portraits and statues at Harvard are going to have to be removed, and all the dorms are going to have to be renamed."
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