Tuesday, June 27, 2017
How 'Settled Science' Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
How 'Settled Science' Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Anyone who thinks it's enough to rest an argument on "settled science" or a "scientific consensus" ought to read about John Yudkin.
Yudkin was a British professor of nutrition who, in 1972, sounded the alarm about sugar in diets, saying that if sugar were treated like any other food additive "that material would be promptly banned."
He said sugar, not fat, was the more likely cause of obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
For his efforts, Yudkin was branded a shill for the meat and dairy industries.
His work was dismissed as "emotional assertions," "science fiction" and "a mountain of nonsense." Journals refused to publish his papers.
He was uninvited from nutrition conferences and was ridiculed by the scientific community.
"Prominent nutritionists combined with the food industry to destroy his reputation, and his career never recovered," writes Ian Leslie in a lengthy piece titled "The Sugar Conspiracy" that was published recently in The Guardian.
Nutritionists, Leslie explains, had decided that dietary fat was the enemy of good health, based in large part on a huge Seven Countries Study, published in 1970, which looked at 12,770 middle-aged men in countries ranging from the U.S. to Yugoslavia.
"The Seven Countries study had become canonical, and the fat hypothesis was enshrined in official advice," Leslie writes. By 1980, the U.S. government issued its first Dietary Guidelines telling the country to cut back on saturated fats and cholesterol, and Americans dutifully complied.
That's precisely when the nation's obesity rate started to skyrocket.
While the obesity rate barely changed from 1960 to 1980 -- going from 13% to 15% -- over the following two decades – 1980-2000 – the rate jumped to 35%.
"At best, we can conclude that the official guidelines did not achieve their objective; at worse, they led to a decades-long health catastrophe," Leslie writes.
Nutritionists are only now grudgingly beginning to admit that their approach to nutrition guidelines could have been, well, wrong, and Yudkin's work is only now being rediscovered.
The federal government, for example, quietly admitted recently that there's nothing wrong with eating cholesterol.
So why didn't scientists wise up sooner?
Leslie correctly points out that, despite the patina of pure objectivity, "scientific inquiry is prone to the eternal rules of human social life: deference to the charismatic, herding toward majority opinion, punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error..."
"Anyone who thinks it's enough to rest an argument on "settled science" or a "scientific consensus" ought to read about John Yudkin.
Yudkin was a British professor of nutrition who, in 1972, sounded the alarm about sugar in diets, saying that if sugar were treated like any other food additive "that material would be promptly banned."
He said sugar, not fat, was the more likely cause of obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
For his efforts, Yudkin was branded a shill for the meat and dairy industries.
His work was dismissed as "emotional assertions," "science fiction" and "a mountain of nonsense." Journals refused to publish his papers.
He was uninvited from nutrition conferences and was ridiculed by the scientific community.
"Prominent nutritionists combined with the food industry to destroy his reputation, and his career never recovered," writes Ian Leslie in a lengthy piece titled "The Sugar Conspiracy" that was published recently in The Guardian.
Nutritionists, Leslie explains, had decided that dietary fat was the enemy of good health, based in large part on a huge Seven Countries Study, published in 1970, which looked at 12,770 middle-aged men in countries ranging from the U.S. to Yugoslavia.
"The Seven Countries study had become canonical, and the fat hypothesis was enshrined in official advice," Leslie writes. By 1980, the U.S. government issued its first Dietary Guidelines telling the country to cut back on saturated fats and cholesterol, and Americans dutifully complied.
That's precisely when the nation's obesity rate started to skyrocket.
While the obesity rate barely changed from 1960 to 1980 -- going from 13% to 15% -- over the following two decades – 1980-2000 – the rate jumped to 35%."At best, we can conclude that the official guidelines did not achieve their objective; at worse, they led to a decades-long health catastrophe," Leslie writes.
Nutritionists are only now grudgingly beginning to admit that their approach to nutrition guidelines could have been, well, wrong, and Yudkin's work is only now being rediscovered.
The federal government, for example, quietly admitted recently that there's nothing wrong with eating cholesterol.
So why didn't scientists wise up sooner?
Leslie correctly points out that, despite the patina of pure objectivity, "scientific inquiry is prone to the eternal rules of human social life: deference to the charismatic, herding toward majority opinion, punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error..."
Robbery Suspect Corners Female Homeowner, Gets Shot - Breitbart
Robbery Suspect Corners Female Homeowner, Gets Shot - Breitbart:
"On Monday, an alleged robbery suspect in Castaic, California, cornered a female homeowner who reacted by shooting him in the chest.
The alleged robbery occurred around 2 a.m.
According to KHTS, the woman heard strange noises and realized the suspect was in her home.
She fled the residence and called 911 while outside.
The woman then saw the suspect leave the home, so she returned and “barricaded the front door” once inside.
Suddenly, the suspect returned and reportedly forced his way in through the home’s back entry.
This time around, the woman was holding her handgun and fired one shot when confronted by the suspect.
The bullet struck him in the chest, and he was transported to a hospital where he is “in custody for a burglary charge.”
Police did not identify the suspect, and the woman did not want to be identified either.
Neighbors speaking on condition of anonymity said they were not surprised by the incident.
They said, “Sheriff’s deputies response times to the area were not as quick as other areas, and residents are prepared for anything that could happen in that time.”
"On Monday, an alleged robbery suspect in Castaic, California, cornered a female homeowner who reacted by shooting him in the chest.
The alleged robbery occurred around 2 a.m.
According to KHTS, the woman heard strange noises and realized the suspect was in her home.
The woman then saw the suspect leave the home, so she returned and “barricaded the front door” once inside.
Suddenly, the suspect returned and reportedly forced his way in through the home’s back entry.
This time around, the woman was holding her handgun and fired one shot when confronted by the suspect.
The bullet struck him in the chest, and he was transported to a hospital where he is “in custody for a burglary charge.”
Police did not identify the suspect, and the woman did not want to be identified either.
Neighbors speaking on condition of anonymity said they were not surprised by the incident.
They said, “Sheriff’s deputies response times to the area were not as quick as other areas, and residents are prepared for anything that could happen in that time.”
Walker Battles Climate Change Believers to Reshape DNR
"Wisconsin Democrats have demanded Gov. Scott Walker (R) join the U.S. Climate Alliance, a newly formed coalition of states that intends to move forward with the terms of the Paris climate accord after President Trump’s decision to pull out of the agreement."
The Banana Republic of Illinois - Stephen Moore
The Banana Republic of Illinois - Stephen Moore:
"But the real story in the states has been the catastrophic effects of tax-and-spend fiscal policy in Illinois.
Last week, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan endorsed a $5 billion annual income tax hike.
This would be the largest tax increase of any state in years.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has blocked new taxes for three years but is now under intense pressure from the Springfield political machine to agree to the revenue heist.
Anyone who thinks this soak-the-rich scheme will solve Illinois' long-term budget crisis should have their head examined.
Illinois already ranks in the top three among the 50 states in state-local tax burden, so if raising taxes were any kind of solution here, the Land of Lincoln would be a Garden of Eden.
Instead, the state has been a financial basket case for years.
This is a state that is now $14.5 billion in arrears whose bonds have been downgraded to near-junk bond status, and that is losing its most valuable resource: its businesses and citizens.
Small business contractors have to wait six months or more to get paid.
Back in 2013, then-Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, followed the advice of economists like Paul Krugman of The New York Times and raised taxes on the very wealthiest residents of the state.
He argued that the superrich in Illinois could easily afford to pay a bigger share of the tax load and no one would leave.
The more Quinn raised taxes, the deeper the budget hole got.
Whole resort towns in Florida and Arizona have become high-income refugee camps of former affluent residents of Chicagoland..."
"But the real story in the states has been the catastrophic effects of tax-and-spend fiscal policy in Illinois.
Last week, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan endorsed a $5 billion annual income tax hike.
This would be the largest tax increase of any state in years.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has blocked new taxes for three years but is now under intense pressure from the Springfield political machine to agree to the revenue heist.
Anyone who thinks this soak-the-rich scheme will solve Illinois' long-term budget crisis should have their head examined.
Instead, the state has been a financial basket case for years.
This is a state that is now $14.5 billion in arrears whose bonds have been downgraded to near-junk bond status, and that is losing its most valuable resource: its businesses and citizens.
Small business contractors have to wait six months or more to get paid.
Back in 2013, then-Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, followed the advice of economists like Paul Krugman of The New York Times and raised taxes on the very wealthiest residents of the state.
He argued that the superrich in Illinois could easily afford to pay a bigger share of the tax load and no one would leave.
The more Quinn raised taxes, the deeper the budget hole got.
Whole resort towns in Florida and Arizona have become high-income refugee camps of former affluent residents of Chicagoland..."
Obama’s liberalism paved the way for Donald Trump | New York Post
Obama’s liberalism paved the way for Donald Trump | New York Post:
"And now comes Barack Obama. The former president, shredding what was left of his promise not to interfere with his successor, is joining the fight against the repeal of ObamaCare. He called the Senate bill an example of “meanness,” and pledged to campaign for the Democrat in the Virginia governor’s race.
For Republicans, luck can’t get much better. While Clinton and Pelosi were hardly innocent bystanders in the historic rout of Democrats at every level of government, the main culprit was Obama.
It was Obamaism,"
For Republicans, luck can’t get much better. While Clinton and Pelosi were hardly innocent bystanders in the historic rout of Democrats at every level of government, the main culprit was Obama.
It was Obamaism,"
Global Warming: The Imminent Crisis That Never Arrives | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
Global Warming: The Imminent Crisis That Never Arrives | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"It's summer 2017 and the Arctic was supposed to be ice-free, hurricanes were going to be more frequent and more deadly, and sea levels should be rising alarmingly.
We could go on.
But we have neither the space nor time to rack up all the missed global warming predictions.
So we will merely point out that instead of these disasters, we have the climate alarmist community admitting that there has indeed been a pause in the warming and that its models failed to predict it.
Yes, that's right.
The alarmists are acknowledging in the abstract of a research paper that was published this month in Nature Geoscience that there have been "differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates."
...On some level the admission is shocking, as Bastasch and Maue say.
Yet we've long known that at some point the confession had to be made.
The alarmists couldn't carry on the charade forever."
Read on!
"It's summer 2017 and the Arctic was supposed to be ice-free, hurricanes were going to be more frequent and more deadly, and sea levels should be rising alarmingly.
- Al Gore swore in his 2006 science fiction movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," that within a decade there would be a "true planetary emergency." "Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes," said Gore in the movie's introduction.
- The grand storyteller also predicted in 2011 that "there will be no more snows" on Mt. Kilimanjaro "within the decade."
- Four years earlier, the Guardian of Britain reported that the United Nations was warning that we had "as little as eight years left to avoid a dangerous global average rise of 2C or more."
- Three years and more than 1,000 days ago, then French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius — a socialist, of course — advised us that "we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos."
We could go on.
So we will merely point out that instead of these disasters, we have the climate alarmist community admitting that there has indeed been a pause in the warming and that its models failed to predict it.
Yes, that's right.
The alarmists are acknowledging in the abstract of a research paper that was published this month in Nature Geoscience that there have been "differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates."
...On some level the admission is shocking, as Bastasch and Maue say.
Yet we've long known that at some point the confession had to be made.
The alarmists couldn't carry on the charade forever."
Read on!
Over 1,700 patients at risk in 'colossal' NHS mail blunder - BBC News
Over 1,700 patients at risk in 'colossal' NHS mail blunder - BBC News
"At least 1,700 patients may have been harmed by a 'colossal' blunder that meant thousands of patient records were left to pile up in a warehouse.
The number at risk is likely to rise as only two thirds of the 700,000 notes found had been checked, officials said.
Cancer test results and child protection notes were among the documents that were missing in England.
The National Audit Office also said there were questions to answer about the handling of the incident.
...But between 2011 and 2016 a backlog of 709,000 pieces of correspondence piled up in a NHS SBS warehouse.
"At least 1,700 patients may have been harmed by a 'colossal' blunder that meant thousands of patient records were left to pile up in a warehouse.
The number at risk is likely to rise as only two thirds of the 700,000 notes found had been checked, officials said.
Cancer test results and child protection notes were among the documents that were missing in England.The National Audit Office also said there were questions to answer about the handling of the incident.
...But between 2011 and 2016 a backlog of 709,000 pieces of correspondence piled up in a NHS SBS warehouse.
'Colossal' blunder
The issue came to light in February after the Guardian newspaper reported it.
Now the NAO has reviewed what exactly happened and found:- The company had become aware of a risk to patients in January 2014, but senior managers had not developed a plan to deal with it or tell the government or NHS England for another two years
- A label with "clinical notes" on it had been removed from the room where the files were stored. A manager had apparently said: "You don't want to advertise what's in that room"
- In August 2015, a member of staff raised concerns the records were being destroyed
- NHS SBS finally told NHS England and Department of Health of the problem in March 2016, but neither Parliament nor the public were told
- The episode suggested there had been a conflict of interest between the health secretary's responsibility for the health service as a whole and his department's position as a shareholder in NHS SBS
- NHS England said the company had been "obstructive and unhelpful" when it had tried to investigate issue..."
Glenn K. Beaton: Don’t fall for the college scam | AspenTimes.com
Glenn K. Beaton: Don’t fall for the college scam | AspenTimes.com:
"One of my friends (yes, I have some, even in liberal Aspen) is a mountaineering guide.
He does well and, like my mountaineering guide friend, in his spare time he also does good.
He too never got a college degree.
For those who do graduate, their median income six years later is less than $29,000..."
"One of my friends (yes, I have some, even in liberal Aspen) is a mountaineering guide.
He communicates concepts of climbing and safety to people who have never been in the mountains.
He has a spatial ability to see the terrain in his mind's eye.
He provides emergency medical treatment for injuries ranging from foot blisters to pulmonary edema.
He's smart, articulate and well-read.
He never went to college.
I have another acquaintance who owns a concrete company.
His idea of a "concrete solution" is something that is poured out of a cement truck and into a set of forms.
And I don't mean the printed kind.
He figures out the cost of a project.
He lines up and manages the necessary staffing.
He knows both how low he must bid and how high he might.
He does well and, like my mountaineering guide friend, in his spare time he also does good.
Meanwhile, over at Aspen High School, nearly everyone goes to college because, well, college is where nearly everyone from Aspen High School goes.
Administrators say with unintended irony that they teach independent thinking, and so everyone must march lockstep to college to be force-fed more of it.
This narrow-mindedness in the educational-industrial complex is worse than self-serving. Teachers are privileged to exert an influence over young minds.
When teachers tell kids that only losers don't go to college, kids believe them..."
...A recent survey found that 80 percent of Americans think food containing DNA (which would include all food made from animals or plants) should be specially labeled as such.
And a significant percentage think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
Some colleges are worse than others.
Here in Colorado, the state has built numerous places called Colorado Mountain College, apparently for students unable to find their way out of the mountains.
Their graduation rate is 26 percent. For those who do graduate, their median income six years later is less than $29,000..."
Read on!
Tell your kids!!!
Polls: Public Sides with Trump on ‘Fake News’ Media Bias - Breitbart
"The general public agrees with Republicans and President Donald Trump that the establishment press are biased against Republicans and the Trump administration, according to recent national polls."
An Audit Shows How Jane Sanders Spent Burlington College $$$ Before She Ruined It
An Audit Shows How Jane Sanders Spent Burlington College $$$ Before She Ruined It:
"Bernie and Jane Sanders are both under FBI investigation for bank fraud as most know.
Some might not know that there was an audit.
The audit shows Jane Sanders funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Burlington College to family and friends despite the school’s limited resources.
Bernie, for his part, is accused of pressing the bank to give the loans to the college.
The poorly-backed loans ended up bringing the little hippie school down.
If they didn’t do anything illegal, the Sanders do seem ethically and financially challenged.
The duo serve as good examples of how Socialists handle finances...
...Sanders “successfully and intentionally engaged in a fraudulent scheme to actively conceal and misrepresent material facts from a federal financial institution,” Toensing’s letter read.
Sanders claimed the institution had $2.6 million in pledges for the loan when it actually only received $676,000 worth of donations from 2010 to 2014, according to the letter.
Bernie is accused of pressuring the bank to give the loans
...The unpopular former president of Burlington was eventually forced out by some angry colleagues over her mishandling of funds, which caused the school to go bankrupt last year.
After she was forced out, Jane Sanders extracted a “severance package from the college of more than 200,000”....
"Bernie and Jane Sanders are both under FBI investigation for bank fraud as most know.
Some might not know that there was an audit.
The audit shows Jane Sanders funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Burlington College to family and friends despite the school’s limited resources.
Bernie, for his part, is accused of pressing the bank to give the loans to the college.
If they didn’t do anything illegal, the Sanders do seem ethically and financially challenged.
The duo serve as good examples of how Socialists handle finances...
...Sanders “successfully and intentionally engaged in a fraudulent scheme to actively conceal and misrepresent material facts from a federal financial institution,” Toensing’s letter read.
Sanders claimed the institution had $2.6 million in pledges for the loan when it actually only received $676,000 worth of donations from 2010 to 2014, according to the letter.
Bernie is accused of pressuring the bank to give the loans
...The unpopular former president of Burlington was eventually forced out by some angry colleagues over her mishandling of funds, which caused the school to go bankrupt last year.
After she was forced out, Jane Sanders extracted a “severance package from the college of more than 200,000”....
History for June 27
History for June 27 - On-This-Day.com:
Charles Stewart Parnell 1846, Mildred J. Hill 1859, Helen Keller 1880
Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan 1927, H. Ross Perot 1930, Tobey Maguire 1975
1787 - Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May.
1871 - The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886.
1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1905 - The battleship Potemkin succumbed to a mutiny on the Black Sea.
1931 - Igor Sikorsky filed U.S. Patent 1,994,488, which marked the breakthrough in helicopter technology.
1954 - The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.
1955 - The first "Wide Wide World" was broadcast on NBC-TV.
1967 - The world's first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England. The device was invented by John Sheppard-Barron. The machine operated on a voucher system and the maximum withdrawal was $28.
Monday, June 26, 2017
1.4 million illegals working under stolen Social Security numbers: Audit - Washington Times
1.4 million illegals working under stolen Social Security numbers: Audit - Washington Times:
"Most illegal immigrants who pay taxes have stolen someone else’s legal identity, and the IRS doesn’t do a very good job of letting those American citizens and legal immigrants know they’re being impersonated, the tax agency’s inspector general said in a new report released Thursday.
The theft creates major problems for the American citizens and legal foreign workers whose identities are stolen, and who have to deal with explaining money they never earned.
But the IRS only manages to identify half of the potentially 1.4 million people likely affected by the fraud in 2015, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in its report."
"Most illegal immigrants who pay taxes have stolen someone else’s legal identity, and the IRS doesn’t do a very good job of letting those American citizens and legal immigrants know they’re being impersonated, the tax agency’s inspector general said in a new report released Thursday.The theft creates major problems for the American citizens and legal foreign workers whose identities are stolen, and who have to deal with explaining money they never earned.
But the IRS only manages to identify half of the potentially 1.4 million people likely affected by the fraud in 2015, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in its report."
Where Americans Came From–And Where Immigrants Are Coming From Now | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform
Where Americans Came From–And Where Immigrants Are Coming From Now | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform:
Above is a fairly recent map of where immigrants are coming from, by state. [From Germany to Mexico: How America’s source of immigrants has changed over a century, By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Michael Keegan, Pew Research, October 7, 2015]
Above is a fairly recent map of where immigrants are coming from, by state. [From Germany to Mexico: How America’s source of immigrants has changed over a century, By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Michael Keegan, Pew Research, October 7, 2015]
You’ll notice that Montana (where Paul Nachman lives) and North Dakota (where almost nobody lives) are getting some cross-border immigrants from the Canadian West, but almost everywhere else, it’s Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, and Mexico.
Here’s a comparable map for 1910–call it your Grandfather’s America.
Here’s a comparable map for 1910–call it your Grandfather’s America.
Analyze this | Power Line
Analyze this | Power Line:
"A long-time reader and retired FBI agent of vast and relevant experience comments on Paul Sperry’s New York Post column, discussed by John in the adjacent post.
The emphases in his quote from Sperry’s column are his:
In a CI investigation focused on a foreign power, that’s not a problem since FISA on the foreign power (say, Russia) is already in place–all that needs to be done is to identify a foreign national as the agent of that power (Russia) and, presto, you get FISA coverage of anything that’s not already covered.
Where it becomes an acute problem is when the CI investigation is a ruse to cover domestic spying on political opponents.
"A long-time reader and retired FBI agent of vast and relevant experience comments on Paul Sperry’s New York Post column, discussed by John in the adjacent post.
The emphases in his quote from Sperry’s column are his:
"I remain convinced that the FISA warrants that were twice sought to target associates of Trump (and possibly Trump himself) are the key to blowing up the Russia narrative.
As Andy McCarthy regularly points out, it was all done under the cloak of a counterintelligence (CI) investigation–and FISA techniques are at the heart of any CI investigation.
Any FISA application encapsulates most of the predication for the investigation itself, and without FISA techniques the investigation likely goes nowhere.
In that case FISA on the foreign power is of no use–not if, as appears to be the case, there was no significant contact or collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
If, in fact, the real target was Trump himself–and we are told that Trump himself was named in the rejected July 2016 FISA application–you need to gin up a FISA on someone who really IS in contact with Trump, no matter how far-fetched the reasoning.
Carter Page?
He’ll do in a pinch, right?
And now Sperry tells us:
Read on!!But it’s now clear his “intelligence reports,” which together run more than 35-pages long, were for the most part worthless. And the clients who paid Fusion GPS (which claims to go “beyond standard due diligence”) for them got taken to the cleaners. [Not if they needed something, anything, to get the FISA order, and eventually got it.]Steele’s most sensational allegations remain unconfirmed. For instance, his claim that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen held a “clandestine meeting” on the alleged hacking scheme in Prague with “Kremlin officials” in August 2016 unraveled when Cohen denied ever visiting Prague, his passport showed no stamps showing he left or entered the US at the time, witnesses accounted for his presence here, and Czech authorities found no evidence Cohen went to Prague.
Steele hadn’t worked in Moscow since the 1990s and didn’t actually travel there to gather intelligence on Trump firsthand. He relied on third-hand “friend of friend” sourcing. In fact, most of his claimed Russian sources spoke not directly to him but “in confidence to a trusted compatriot” who, in turn, spoke to Steele — and always anonymously..."
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