Posts about Junk Science as of July 15, 2009

“There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” -Washington Irving Conversations between Bethalynne and I, regarding “Depression Punk” began about a year and a half ago – though until recently, I never really managed to consider these concept so seriously. Such conversations were typically a source of amusement, just silly banter and rampant conceptualizing – most often fueled by late nights and spoiled grain.

Announcements: None: I’m sulking this week because I’m not in Atlanta for TypeCon . Ok, one announcement: an anonymous comment from someone on last week’s post wanted to correct my error about Durham – “Durham Art Walk is a twice-annual large downtown art tour while Third friday Durham is once a month”. Oh, and a chocolate lecture at the science museum in downtown Raleigh tonight. And Labyrinth at 8pm at the Colony in north Raleigh tonight.

SOS Forests : Beetle Epidemic Caused by Misguided Dogma of Extremists Cost-Plus-Loss Is the Correct Way to Evaluate Fire Damages Return Fire Lasting Bitterness Over the Poe Cabin Fire Montana State Forester: We need an integrated response to mountain pine beetle Forest Fires and Biomass Skipped Over at Boxer Cap-and-Trade Hearing Two Forest Restoration Letters An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of Ecological Applications Wildlife and People : Studying Jaguars to Death

DIY Electricity Projects For Every NeedFor a do-it-yourself type person with even just moderate skill, a project to make homemade energy by harnessing wind or solar power is a perfect project. The easiest of these projects would be a home made turbine to generate electricity from the wind.

The day’s top political news: House bill would make health care a right House Democrat leaders, pledging to meet the president’s goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and “the wealthy”. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wanted floor debate to begin a week from Monday.

The Opinion page in today’s Globe carries a piece by a Stephen C. Meyer, identified as the Director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Among other things he is pimping his new book. The Discovery Institute, for those of you who have no clue, is the place where fake scientists concoct phony science to push religious creationism. Meyer’s piece is full of delicious ludicrousisms (hey, if they can make up science, The Lion can make up words).

Best Way to Lose Weight – What is it? How To Lose Weight Fast The best way to lose weight is to choose a program or a weight loss plan which suits one’s body. Do you know that you would never lose weight unless you choose the best weight loss plan or program which suits your body. Read on to discover the best ways to lose weight and how to achieve your weight loss goals. You might work hard day and night but unless it’s the weight loss plan which best suits your body you would never lose weight.

Hi Sherry, My results with the Great Taste No Pain quick start plan in 4 days have been great.  I am not having headaches, which I usually have just about every day! I have TMJ and a straight neck (You’re supposed to have a curve.) I also don’t wear my glasses all the time, which I should.  So I have many different reasons for the headaches.  I think the correct food choices have really helped me in relaxing the muscles, yet not feeling tired.  The food was great.  The simplicity of the foods,

by Gabe MitchellI have always been one of those folk who likes to make sacrifices in order to be “healthy.” You figure an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.Although I haven’t ever had any major health problems, I believe that diet and exercise play a critical role in helping us maintain our well being and increase our longevity. In truth, I started working out in 6th grade, after my father thought it would be good for us all to get in better shape.

Somehow I doubt it, but I’m not sure. Regardless of whether it’s legal or not, check out Thai Express’ new promotion, ” Feed your Brain Beef Stir Fry with Eggplant and Vegetables on Rice with a 16oz beverage Nasunin found in the eggplant skin is a potent antioxidant and free radical scavenger that has been shown to protect cellmemBRANES from damage ” Yup, what could be better for you than fried red meat over white rice with a sugared soda chaser? I wish there were something we could put in the drinking water that would protect the general public from consuming junk food in response to ridiculous over-simplifications and extrapolations of basic science research.

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DOWNLOAD Right Click Save As Left Click to Open The Representative Market as an Act of Revolution. If the goal of revolution is to deny empowering the existence of tyranny, then it would seem that a logical moral presentation would be to deny the tyrannical entity it’s primary means of power. This logic is no more natural than common sense itself, yet our behavior seems to be irrational and individual-diminutive.

DOWNLOAD Right Click Save As Left Click to Open The Representative Market as an Act of Revolution. If the goal of revolution is to deny empowering the existence of tyranny, then it would seem that a logical moral presentation would be to deny the tyrannical entity it’s primary means of power. This logic is no more natural than common sense itself, yet our behavior seems to be irrational and individual-diminutive.

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SOS Forests : Cost-Plus-Loss Is the Correct Way to Evaluate Fire Damages Return Fire Lasting Bitterness Over the Poe Cabin Fire Montana State Forester: We need an integrated response to mountain pine beetle Forest Fires and Biomass Skipped Over at Boxer Cap-and-Trade Hearing Two Forest Restoration Letters An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of Ecological Applications Wildlife and People : Studying Jaguars to Death New Revelations About Reintroduced Wolves USFWS Reinstates

Every Time I Die will release New Junk Aesthetic on Sept. 15 via Epitaph Records. Press release: Hardcore-rock band Every Time I Die announce new album and fall tour July 14, 2009 – Los Angeles, CA. – Warning: an excess of blood, sweat and beers were spilled during the making of 2009’s most anticipated hardcore-rock album, Every Time I Die’s New Junk Aesthetic, out Sept 15 via Epitaph.

I see today that the Washington Post decided to hoist upon the unsuspecting masses the latest in a series of uninformed remarks from a soon to be retired governor of Alaska. Today’s topic is cap and trade and you read an effective throttling of the column here and here . But I don’t really want to talk about the substance of the column as much as I want to consider what the utility is of a page that would print such a thing in its pages.

Sad. Bill O’Reilly Embraces Global Warming Hoax…Quotes Disputed Junk Science – gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 07/14/2009 It was a sad night for the Spin Zone. Bill O’Reilly told viewers on Monday that since 2001 we have witnessed “7 of the hottest years” on record. Not true. In is well documented that there has been a cooling downtrend since 2001 . In fact, the Earth has cooled .74°F since former Vice President Al Gore released “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006.

Otherwise, those poor people in New York might have frozen to death: New York City fails to reach 85 degrees Fahrenheit in June, for the first time since 1916.

Last night, I caught a rerun of the first episode of Lifetime’s new series, Drop Dead Diva . Once I got past the show’s silly premise (Deb, a thin, wannabe model dies and her spirit is placed in the fat-chick attorney body of Jane), as well as my embarrassment over the fact that I was watching something on Lifetime , for cryin’ out loud – I found the show rather enjoyable. Besides its thematic content (body image, weight issues), it seems like Drop Dead Diva may turn out to just be some fun, light summer viewing.

Maternal Deprivation Inflicted on Battered Women and Abused Children — batteredmomslosecustody This site is devoted to exposing the re-victimization of women and children who are victims of domestic abuse and/or child abuse. The legal system is being used to inflict Maternal Deprivation on children and their mothers. Networks of unethical lawyers, Guardian Ad Litems, Psychologists, and other purveyors of  “Parental Alienation Syndrome” junk science will advocate for abusers and vilify protective parents FOR PROFIT.

Maternal Deprivation Inflicted on Battered Women and Abused Children — batteredmomslosecustody This site is devoted to exposing the re-victimization of women and children who are victims of domestic abuse and/or child abuse. The legal system is being used to inflict Maternal Deprivation on children and their mothers. Networks of unethical lawyers, Guardian Ad Litems, Psychologists, and other purveyors of  “Parental Alienation Syndrome” junk science will advocate for abusers and vilify protective parents FOR PROFIT.

Maternal Deprivation Inflicted on Battered Women and Abused Children — batteredmomslosecustody This site is devoted to exposing the re-victimization of women and children who are victims of domestic abuse and/or child abuse. The legal system is being used to inflict Maternal Deprivation on children and their mothers. Networks of unethical lawyers, Guardian Ad Litems, Psychologists, and other purveyors of  “Parental Alienation Syndrome” junk science will advocate for abusers and vilify protective parents FOR PROFIT.

Maternal Deprivation Inflicted on Battered Women and Abused Children — batteredmomslosecustody This site is devoted to exposing the re-victimization of women and children who are victims of domestic abuse and/or child abuse. The legal system is being used to inflict Maternal Deprivation on children and their mothers. Networks of unethical lawyers, Guardian Ad Litems, Psychologists, and other purveyors of  “Parental Alienation Syndrome” junk science will advocate for abusers and vilify protective parents FOR PROFIT.

Memo to Washington Post and editorial page editor Fred Hiatt:  We get it already. You don’t like clean energy.  You don’t mind publishing unfact-checked articles again and again.  And if somebody wants to publish an op-ed attacking climate legislation focused exclusively on the cost of action while never actually discussing climate change or the cost of inaction, hey, why not?  It’s not like there’s a major study by a leading journalist criticizing the entire media for such biased coverage

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s massive “but” QUESTION: Thank you. I’m Ira Birnbaum in the Europe and Eurasia bureau. Given the recent developments of global climate change at the G8 and on Capitol Hill and the upcoming negotiations, what do you see as the most appropriate development role for us in moving forward in this process? SECRETARY CLINTON: Great question. I was talking to Todd Stern our climate change envoy, this morning.

Just completed a busy day with lots of paperwork, conflicts between offices, a heated telephone conversation with a customer, and whatever you can grab junk food for lunch. There is nothing more than enjoying a quiet afternoon relaxing at home, and is headed in the opposite direction to invest a few hours with a professional organization and reap the benefits of a “power networking” session. Yes, it is true, regardless of the benefits of mixing with people, make contacts and get in the right place at the right time, and it is sometimes the last thing you choose to do.

I think I am gonna get all real on ya’all for a while. Like really real! My brain has all this junk in it, it’s getting crowded and I am having weird dreams, like walking around on edges of cliffs and almost falling to my death…wait, maybe it’s because I just did that for reals. Maybe I need to just vent…I am at some sort of crossroads or change, or pivotal point, or something big and cliche like that…I did watch Mama Mia, which is not like me, but there was good reason to, and I actually liked it.

It was a sad night for the Spin Zone. Bill O’Reilly told viewers on Monday that since 2001 we have witnessed “7 of the hottest years” on record. Not true. In is well documented that there has been a cooling downtrend since 2001 . In fact, the Earth has cooled .74°F since former Vice President … Hyscience found this 3 hours ago on gatewaypundit.blogspot.com Find more top political news, videos, and blogs on BeltwayBlips: World , Bill O’Reilly , Global Warming , Al Gore , Peru

As you sit here in a world of despair, reading, researching, contemplating, and day-dreaming that you can spend the rest of your life without diabetes; you are hoping that for just one second the answer to your prayers could be found in a single article, in just once sentence, without the confusion of overwhelming information. Paralysis by analysis as they say. Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, there was a man who had been diagnosed with an incurable disease: Diabetes.

Gateway Pundit: Sad. Bill O’Reilly Embraces Global Warming Hoax…Quotes Disputed Junk Science As for Bill O’Reilly’s claim that since 2001 we have witnessed “7 of the hottest years ever recorded” is flat out wrong. This data was refuted first in late 2007. Does NASA’s James Hansen Still Matter in Climate Debate? – NYTimes.com When NASA climatologist James Hansen testified to Congress in 1988 about the dangers of global warming, his words became a rallying cry for environmentalists and politicians determined to control heat-trapping gases.

Have you ever had a mentor or other influential person in your life who helped you along a certain path in school, work, or life in general? View other answers Iva Anderson was probably one of the most influential non-family members in my life when I was a teenager.  I called her my grandma away from grandmother.  In spite of being wheelchair bound as a result of MS and only a ninth grade education (she was forced to marry at a young age,) she opened my mind and body to a completely foreign and wonderful universe.  She worked as a taxi cab dispatch during the day.

It was indeed, as Gateway Pundit suggests , “a sad night for the Spin Zone.” as Bill O’Reilly told viewers on Monday that since 2001 we have witnessed “7 of the hottest years” on record. While what he says may be technically true, his implication of man having anything to do with global warming, or that any trend in warming has been anything other than temporary and part of a natural trend of the earth’s history of cooling and warming, is simply not true.

It was a sad night for the Spin Zone. Bill O’Reilly told viewers on Monday that since 2001 we have witnessed “7 of the hottest years” on record. Not true. In is well documented that there has been a cooling downtrend since 2001 . In fact, the Earth has cooled .74°F since former Vice President Al Gore released “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006. From the the Global Warming Spin Factor: As for Bill O’Reilly’s claim that since 2001 we have witnessed “7 of the hottest years ever recorded” is flat out wrong.

If you want to feel good, real good, here’s what you should do. 1. Walk Tall. The most significant effort you can make to boost your morale is to let the world see a new, confident You. And the first step towards that is to walk talk and confident, strutting through life as if you know exactly where you’re headed. 2. Empower Yourself. There is no greater feeling of power than that which is endowed by knowledge. Identify the areas you would like to empower yourself and take a go at it.

Nicely done, too, I think; this is one more alarm bell to tell us why there will be no Nobel Peace Prize for global warming deniers. From the same guy who so brilliantly brings us the Global Warming Crock of the Week: Tip of the old scrub brush to Tim Lambert at Deltoid . Posted in Accuracy, Climate change, Cost of Green, denialism, Environmental protection, Global warming, Hoaxes, Junk science, Science, Voodoo science Tagged: Climate change, Cost of Green, denialism, Global warming,

Sott.net S. L. Baker NaturalNews.com July 14, 2009 At the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society recently held in San Diego, researchers presented a study showing that the flu vaccine – widely touted as a “must have” for children with chronic illnesses – isn’t effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially ones with asthma.

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Patagonia’s Founder on Why There’s “No Such Thing as Sustainability”If you get down to the real causes, a lot of our society’s biggest problems are happening because we’re destroying the planet. As we cut down the forests in the Congo, diseases start jumping over to humans. The Pentagon says new wars are going to be resource wars. We’re a long way from having a sustain-able society. That’s why One Percent for the Planet gives strictly to environmental causes.Origin of Species: How a T.

Too many trial judges allow pseudo-expert cops to testify as expert witnesses on such topics as illegal drug sales and gang activity. Here is a Second Circuit case that at least puts brakes on testimony that masquerades as coming from the expert realm, but instead tries to introduce factual allegations that would not come in without expert testimony and that cannot come into evidence with expert testimony, either. U.S. v. Mejia, _ F.3d _  (2d Cir. 2008), http://bit.ly/knujt .

     The story of John Holdren and his eugenicist book he co-authored has really generated some interest.  Many of my recent hits have been on my previous John Holdren entry  .  I guess there are still some people out there who care about  what kind of people President Obama is appointing to his staff.  I decided to find out some more about John Holdren.       John P.

SOS Forests : Return Fire Lasting Bitterness Over the Poe Cabin Fire Montana State Forester: We need an integrated response to mountain pine beetle Forest Fires and Biomass Skipped Over at Boxer Cap-and-Trade Hearing Two Forest Restoration Letters An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of Ecological Applications Wildlife and People : Studying Jaguars to Death New Revelations About Reintroduced Wolves USFWS Reinstates Great Lake Wolves As Endangered NYT Gets It Wrong, Again,

A couple of weeks ago we shared the story of Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Deputy Keith Pikett and his bloodhounds who have misidentified at least two people as criminals through scent identification. Yesterday, Victoria Advocate posted another article about Pikett and Calvin Miller’s case. They went into the specifics of Miller’s case and the events that lead up to his arrest, mainly the pressure put on the law enforcement by the frightened female citizens to arrest the culprit.

As I keep adding to the stockpile of documents produced in generic fentanyl patch lawsuits and Duragesic lawsuits, I’ll post a monthly update as to what’s available.  Here’s what I have so far: Copy of a fentanyl lawsuit filed against Mylan Pharmaceuticals in California. A deposition of Robert Gale, the inventor the Duragesic patch.  In this Duragesic lawsuit , Gale refuses to answer a key question about the safety the patch.

In recent decades, the US has had an ambiguous relationship with science . In the abstract, scientists are considered trusted, valuable members of society, but when it comes to specific areas of science that the public is uncomfortable with (such as evolution), a sizable fraction of the public is willing to believe that the scientific community is engaged in a nefarious plot to deceive them. That strange gap in perception hasn’t gone away, based on results from surveys of scientists and the public performed by the Pew Research Center.

“Individual rights must be balanced against the power of the government to control human reproduction.” Putting the science of eugenics back in its proper place at the top of the Federal government…. For a more complete look at Dr. Holdren’s long-held views on forced abortions, population control, and the elimination of national sovereignty, go here .

while this may sound like pie in the sky: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/282700.html Did you know that that phrase was coined by famous labor organizer Joe Hill? OH sorry http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/07/will-the-stars-align-for-space-based-solar-power.ars Will the stars align for space-based solar power? The high cost of putting hardware into orbit would seem to rule out space-based solar power on financial grounds, but several companies are betting that technology has changed the equation.

The Victoria Advocate released a story last night that takes an in depth look at the use of dog-scent lineups in Texas.  Specifically, the article addresses two cases where men were arrested and incarcerated based on canine testimony and later released when proof of their innocence emerged.  The evidence in these cases was subjected to bloodhound scent lineups conducted by Sheriff’s Deputy Keith Pikett, a man whose practices are currently under rigid scrutiny as a result of two recently filed