Saturday, April 29, 2023
IF THAT HURTS YOU, GOOD. STUPIDITY SHOULD BE PAINFUL.
Instapundit-IF THAT HURTS YOU, GOOD. STUPIDITY SHOULD BE PAINFUL.
The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit: Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height."Until a few months ago, we’d never heard of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a peer-reviewed publication whose aim is to promote “free inquiry on controversial topics.”
The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit: Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height."Until a few months ago, we’d never heard of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a peer-reviewed publication whose aim is to promote “free inquiry on controversial topics.”
Our research typically didn’t fit that description.
We finally learned of the journal’s existence, however, when we tried to publish a commentary about how modern science is being compromised by a de-emphasis on merit.
Apparently, what was once anodyne and unobjectionable is now contentious and outré, even in the hard sciences.
- Merit isn’t much in vogue anywhere these days.
...Our intent was to defend established and effective practices of judging science based on its merit alone...
...Every institutions has been corrupted. - Glenn Reynolds
Randi Weingarten's senate hearing testimony fact checked - Louder With Crowder
Randi Weingarten's senate hearing testimony fact checked - Louder With Crowder:
Leftists are attempting "The Great Backtrack." People like Justin Trudeau, Anthony Fauci (who was awarded a Presidential Commendation by Donald Trump), and others want you to forget all the freedoms they took away from you, all the mandates, and all the "public health orders" they forced on you that were WORSE for your health. But few people can choke on a bag of dicks more than teachers' union mob boss Randi Weingarten.
The teachers' unions colluded with the CDC to keep schools closed. They were busted rewriting the guidelines that kept your kids in masks. Masks, mind you, that Weingarten KNEW impeded learning. And yesterday at senate hearing, she attempted to say "Nuh-uh."
Randi Weingarten is an evil liar
Randi Weingarten is an evil liar - DAVID STROM
"Does the headline sound harsh?
It is accurate on both counts.(Pradeep, by the way, is a great account to follow on Twitter. As am I.)
For those of you who live in a cave and just turned on your computers for the first time, Randi Weingarten is the head of the American Federation of Teachers. She helped spearhead the movement to close down schools and keep them closed for as long as humanly possible...
"Does the headline sound harsh?
It is accurate on both counts.
- Randi Weingarten has been and remains an advocate for evil policies and is, indeed, a provable liar.
For those of you who live in a cave and just turned on your computers for the first time, Randi Weingarten is the head of the American Federation of Teachers.
History for April 29
History for April 29 - On-This-Day.com 
William Randolph Hearst 1863 - American newspaper magnate, newspaper publisher.
- 1429 - Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain.
- 1813 - Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel.
- 1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published.
- 1945 - The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.
- 1975 - The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon.
- 1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.
- 1992 - Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.
- 1998 - The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Tucker Carlson's Twitter video has amassed millions of views - TheBlaze
Tucker Carlson's Twitter video has amassed millions of views - TheBlaze:
The video that Tucker Carlson posted to Twitter on Wednesday night racked up more than 19 million views in less than 24 hours — the tweet that contains the video has amassed more than 64 million views so far and more than 800,000 likes.
Trans Democrat's bill may allow Minnesota to treat pedophiles as a protected class - TheBlaze
Trans Democrat's bill may allow Minnesota to treat pedophiles as a protected class - TheBlaze:
Degenerates sexually attracted to children may soon enjoy special treatment as a protected class in the state of Minnesota on account of a new Democratic bill.
The Human Rights Act is the state law prohibiting discrimination in "employment, housing, public accommodations, public services, education, credit and business" and is enforced by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
THEY LIED!-----It's junk science
It's junk science - DAVID STROM"One of the most influential studies on the value of treating gender-dysphoric patients with “gender-affirming” care has been “corrected.”
Not retracted, quite, as the authors admit that their research and conclusions were flawed, but they don’t go as far as to assert it was bunk.
- It was, in fact, bunk.
I encourage you to read it, although you may have to skip over some more technical criticisms regarding statistical methods.
As the critics asserted, once proper statistical methods were used the results turned out to be very different from the original claims...
The conclusion that gender-affirming care helps patients turned out to be wrong.
As the critics asserted, once proper statistical methods were used the results turned out to be very different from the original claims...
The conclusion that gender-affirming care helps patients turned out to be wrong.
Even the authors of the original study admit that now...
Media says voting threatens democracy - Don Surber
Media says voting threatens democracy - Don Surber"The Jeff Bezos Post sent two reporters Grand Haven, Michigan, a town of 11,011 people and the county seat of Ottawa County.
Their job was to do his newspaper’s version of a story in Politico in February, “What It Looks Like When the Far Right Takes Control of Local Government.”
The Jeff Bezos newspaper titled its entry in the hair-on-fire coverage of a western Michigan County’s politics, “In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself.
“Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles.”
The Jeff Bezos newspaper titled its entry in the hair-on-fire coverage of a western Michigan County’s politics, “In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself.
“Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles.”
One of the changes made was to the county’s motto “that sat atop the county’s website and graced its official stationery.”
The 186-year-old county adopted that motto — Where You Belong — six years ago.
The new one is Where Freedom Rings.
Freedom must be a threat to democracy, too...
Biden caught with crib notes detailing reporter's question prior to calling on her during press conference | Fox News
Biden caught with crib notes detailing reporter's question prior to calling on her during press conference | Fox News:
President Biden is no stranger to detailed cheat sheets when speaking to the press, but the president's team seems to have taken things up a notch after he revealed a pre-written question from a reporter during Wednesday's press conference.
Critical Race Theory in American Schools
"Critical race theory says racism permeates every American institution and exists to uphold white supremacy.
Olympia School District to ax music classes for pushing 'white supremacy'
Olympia School District to ax music classes for pushing 'white supremacy' - Katherine
- A Washington school district is planning to cut music classes it believes promote “white supremacy culture” and “significant institutional violence.”
- The Olympia School District — which is facing a budget shortfall of $11.5 million — voted last week to eliminate band and strings for fourth-graders in an effort to both save money and fight racism.
- School Board Director Scott Clifthorne admitted during the meeting that research proves music classes are “healthy for young minds,” but that they are disproportionately rolled out across the district’s 12 elementary schools...
Lunch video-----Why Do Millions Of Men Not Want To Work? - Nicholas Eberstadt
"Nicholas Eberstadt is a political economist, demographer, American Enterprise Institute scholar, and an author.
More than 7 million prime working age men in America are not looking for work, and each year that number continues to grow.
Given that unemployment is at a massive low, why are so many capable men checking out of the workforce and don't intend on coming back?
Report: Teachers' union under Randi Weingarten 'colluded' with Biden administration to keep schools shuttered and on CDC messaging - TheBlaze
Report: Teachers' union under Randi Weingarten 'colluded' with Biden administration to keep schools shuttered and on CDC messaging - TheBlaze:
Newly revealed emails detailed by the New York Post highlight how the American Federation of Teachers and its boss Randi Weingarten exerted significant influence over the Biden administration and shaped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's school reopening guidance, which halted the full reopening of in-person classes.
The damning revelations come just ahead of Weingarten's Wednesday testimony before the Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Polls’ Representative Samples Often Merit Skepticism
Polls’ Representative Samples Often Merit Skepticism 
"When people read about a poll, they are often told something like this:
- Pollsters call a random group of people.
- Though small, we can infer this group is a representative sample of the U.S. population because it was selected randomly.
- Then, if we know the sample size, we can calculate the margin of error, which helps us understand how likely the survey results are to capture reality.
- This Statistics 101 version frequently carries a disclaimer to the effect: “These findings come from a nationally representative sample of 2,000 Americans with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2%.”
Here is the uncomfortable truth.
Though the disclaimer remains, nearly nobody does the textbook version of polling anymore...
James Madison University Debate Team Comes Out Against Debate
James Madison University Debate Team Comes Out Against Debate - EMMA CAMP
- James Madison University's debate team says that "free speech should not extend to requiring us to platform or amplify ideas that are exclusionary, discriminatory, or hostile."
- The group says it "stands for free speech, open dialogue, and argument between different perspectives on campus," adding that "no person should be prohibited from expressing their viewpoints in the public sphere."
- However, the group also wrote that "a general climate of free speech should not extend to requiring us to platform or amplify ideas that are exclusionary, discriminatory, or hostile."...
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