Posts about Junk Science as of July 21, 2009

Because we really can’t afford that $2 billion for national defense and job creation when we’re looking at spending $1.5 trillion on healthcare socialization, $2 trillion to fight global warming, and possibly another multi-billion stimulus package. We can afford trillions for junk science, but God forbid we spend even a fraction of that on national defense. The U.S. Senate just approved a measure to strike increased funding for the Marietta-built F-22 Raptor, bowing to a veto threat from President Barack Obama.

This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It’s shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMZGGQ0ERk Interviewer, G. Edward Griffin: Our conversation is with Mister Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov. Mr.

Richard Feynman is someone I learn from.  Because he has something to teach. What he teaches most is an attitude. His attitude seems to be, “I’m not so smart, but I have a brain which, like most of us, enables me to think.  So I’ll think.  Only I hope certain things that impede thinking won’t get in my way.  If I think I’m smarter than I am (he was smart) that will stop me from looking competently and figuring things out for myself, so I’ll spend my time looking and thinking rather than acting as though I’m smarter than I am.” What Feynman was interested in looking at was something he, and we, call Nature, i.e.

Lately we’ve been discussing a lot of junk science in our blog. Discrediting the validity of junk sciences seems to be a recent trend. An opinion editorial on dallasnews.com says forensic investigations need to weed out the junk science procedures. It describes the case of Michael Blair, who spent 14 years on death row for murder due to unreliable hair analysis. Hair-fiber analysis involves taking a hair under a microscope and comparing it to another (i.e.

Sarah’s cut the clutter to help us recycle old cell phones and computers. Here’s the newly married Sarah: I recently switched cell phone providers, and my old cell phone is currently residing in the junk drawer of my kitchen.  A mostly broken laptop from my undergraduate years takes up valuable space in my bedroom closet.

At about 2:45 into the video, he lays one on a lunar landing denier.

NY state employees: Green urinals stink « Green Hell Blog The greens are giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “pissed off.” Snowmen « the Air Vent Here is the plot Dr. Eric Steig’s requested of 30 years of snow pack data trends in Washington and Oregon. Snow Pack 30 year trend Mark Albright University of Washington So, now that the 30 year trend has been updated, I expect Dr. Steig would like to revise and extend his remarks.

See Canada-U.S. post 2008 elections ; The best countries for business, 2009 Nortel misleading its creditors, RIM charges Company says its year-long effort to buy assets has been repeatedly blocked RIM said Nortel put unfair conditions on its proposals, including a requirement that it could not bid for more assets for a year. “There is nothing in the bidding procedures that contemplates Nortel requiring RIM to promise not to bid for other assets for a year as a condition of bidding for the wireless business,” the company said.

Your Gonna Be Busy Its time for another Grapevine post, as I have really been slacking on these this summer. We have not had any real juicy news since Perez and co have went about their work pretty efficiently, unlike the previous regime, which makes me reminisce about the dog days of last summer and the Ronaldo affair. Picture of Neirda Gallardo on the beach, accusations of Sergio Ramos’s pie junk getting in the way of Ronaldo’s move and Ramon Calderon and Fergilicious having a war of words for old men through the press.

The New Answers Book In today s world, Christians find challenges to their faith every day. How are we supposed to answer the toughest questions posed by the world? This new resource from Answers in Genesis gives answers for some of the most difficult questions that modern Christians face, such as: Is there really a God? Did God really take six days to create everything? What about evolution? Does archaeology support the Bible? What about ETs and UFOs?

Trying to fix our rising health care costs without fixing our food system is like trying to fix our defense budget without ending our two wars in the Middle East. In fact, it would be like trying to get a grip on defense spending while invading Pakistan. Or something like that. Here’s what I mean:

This graph shows the percentage increase in health care costs between 2001 and 2006 for people classified as “Normal” weight, overweight, and obese.

People who have been antique shopping for years know that if you are going to go out shopping in search of antiques, then you should absolutely stick to the antique shops that are still true to the business. What this means is that you should be sticking to the antique shops that care about the antiques, rather than simply turning a quick buck for what they feel is a bunch of old junk. You should be enjoying yourself when you go antique shopping, which means avoiding junky flea markets may be a good idea unless you really love a challenge.

July 21st, 2009TylerLeave a commentGo to comments Did Apollo 11’s crew encounter a UFO en route to the moon?Aldrin, however, says that the video was heavily and very selectively edited. What really happened was this: the crew saw the object outside their spacecraft and asked Houston the location of the Supplemental Rocket Booster, SRB, a small rocket used to help the spacecraft achieve escape velocity. It was then ejected from the assembly and fell away.

by Stephen Richards It is a fact that most Americans are obese irrespective of the fact that they do not want to be so. The plain fact is that the modern generation youth just cannot control their tongue. They also avail of different types of junk food. These teenagers and adults eat junk food despite the fact that they are not hungry. Most of the food remains undigested into their system due to this reason. Over a period of time the undigested food rots and this forms the perfect breeding ground for bacteria.

by Benjamin J. Mihajlov Do you desire to increase your vertical jumping today? It does not matter what sport you play, vertical jump training will make you a better athlete. Basketball and volleyball are probably the most popular sport where jumping higher is important. You will have a better jump shot, block shots easier, and get more rebounds or in volleyball, block shots or spike easier, when you improve your vertical. The following article will give you three tips to help you increase your vertical and learn how to jump higher.

Written by Janice VanCleave on July 21, 2009 – 2:00am – Notes from Janice’s DeskArcheology is the study of  human culture by analyzing stuff that people left behind. Junk from garbage dumps of the past are treasured artifacts today. From these finding, scientists piece together how they think the people lived, worked, and played.I wonder what archaeologists in the far future will find in today’s garbage? I also wonder if they will think where I live was a community garbage dump? am not only a pack rat, I become obsessed when I find a real sale.

July 14th, 2009 Warning: The article below may be offensive to some readers. This is not the objective. It is in no way meant to defame or inflame any parties, groups or persons. Here’s a little to learn from Michelle ObamaMost of us have fallen for our first family, the Obamas … such a universal picture of love. This has even become something of an obsession, especially for quite a number of professional Black women, with many getting excited about the likelihood that they could find their own Obama.

And happy moon landing day, too. It seems like a whole bunch of famous people have been dying lately. Reminds me of something I glimpsed (probably on Kottke) a long time ago—the author was talking about how media has grown so much to the point that, in a couple of decades down the road, we’ll be hearing about beloved entertainers and such dying left and right. I think we’re at the start of that. For some reason, the Adam Yauch thing is hitting me really hard.

Immersive Dolphin Encounter Simulator Apologises for feeding your brain some junk food today.  If however you haven’t had a bowel moment in a while just watch the video below a few times. 1) The Jejune Institute http://jejuneinstitute.org/ “Among the broad ranging scope of discussion, a few central topics emerged to the top. Primarily; the problems of expanding interpersonal trust among fellow human subjects, how to increase general spontaneity & creativity across large populations, and how to induce mutation in the geopolitical realm.

A Blessed Journey to the Past … or to the Future? Are there places where people still live in Paradise? source of below: http://ranprieur.com/essays/beyondciv.html Western industrial society tells a story about itself that goes like this: “A long time ago, our ancestors were ‘primitive.’ They lived in caves, were stupid, hit each other with clubs, and had short, stressful lives in which they were constantly on the verge of starving or being eaten by saber-toothed cats.

Leadership: Hillary Clinton’s trip to India to push a global warming agenda has proved a waste of time. Not just because India rejected junk science, but because big issues got sidelined. Her agenda is making her insignificant. The last thing the U. …

Are you old enough to remember hearing those words spoken by President John F. Kennedy? I’m not, but I have a distinct memory of the night of July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon—the first humans to set foot on a celestial body other than planet Earth. I was seven years old. It was a summer night in Ohio and our house was not air conditioned. I had likely spent the day at swim team practice, followed by swim lessons, followed by five more hours of swimming at the pool until dinner time.

Investor’s Business Daily – Leadership: Hillary Clinton’s trip to India to push a global warming agenda has proved a waste of time. Not just because India rejected junk science, but because big issues got sidelined. Her agenda is making her insignificant.

Games might “infantilize” the brain Baroness Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution, says that playing lots of video games can “infantilize” the brains of children, perhaps adding fuel to the obesity crisis. She told a science seminar at the House of Lords that the idea that you can make a mistake and just keep playing so common in electronic games keeps kids from thinking that their actions have consequences. That in turn can lead to more overeating, sedentary behavior and, ultimately, more obesity, she argued.

This week’s controversy over the scheduling of a Twilight movie at San Diego Comic-Con raised an issue that we at Good Comics for Kids have been thinking about for a while: Why don’t girls’ comics (and their other enthusiasms, for that matter) get any respect? Even the comics bloggers who leaped to defend the Twilight fans often speak with contempt of genres aimed at tween and teen girls, an attitude that was on full display later this week when Yen Press announced it would be publishing a Twilight manga.

SOS Forests : Dangerous Ecobabble — A Case In Point Ecobabble From the Fire Community WOPR, 2008 Spotted Owl Recovery Plan Withdrawn Wildfire — Beneficial or Damaging? Beetle Epidemic Caused by Misguided Dogma of Extremists Cost-Plus-Loss Is the Correct Way to Evaluate Fire Damages Return Fire Wildlife and People : Predation, Not Habitat Loss, Governs Prey Population Dynamics Studying Jaguars to Death New Revelations About Reintroduced Wolves USFWS Reinstates Great Lake

“The Mobile User Experience Is Miserable” – thisisnotablog.dk 07/20/2009 Acording to a study by Nielsen Norman Group browsing the web from a mobile phone today is as bad as it was to browse the web from a desktop 15 years ago . The users had difficulties doing everyday tasks on their mobile phones, like finding information about a specific wine or finding arrival info for a plane.

The theory behind gaining muscle is a pretty simple one. You lay the foundation for muscle growth by intense training. Allow your body the space and time to build muscle. To make your muscles bigger you also have to give your body quality food. That’s about it really. Many people make the mistake of not sticking to this plan. So here are 5 rules that are guaranteed to pack on the muscle. Stick to these rules and you can’t go wrong. Rule 1. Train with the most heavy weights that you can use.

Volume 6, Number 23 Founded over three decades ago in 1976, URPA is a nationally known policy institute which focuses on solutions and plans for passenger rail systems in North America. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, URPA has professional associates in Minnesota, California, Arizona, New Mexico, the District of Columbia, Texas, New York, and other cities. For more detailed information, along with a variety of position papers and other documents, visit the URPA web site at http://www.unitedrail.org .

« Federal Court in NJ Dismisses Off-Label-Marketing Suit Against Schering-Plough | Main | Subprime Public Nuisance Case Rejected by Northern District of Ohio » Article in AmLaw Litigation Daily — Shook Hardy Wins Junk Science Dismissal for Bausch & Lomb, by Ben Hallman.  Here’s an excerpt: And here’s a link to the opinion by Justice Kornreich of the New York Supreme Court, New York County. BGS

In today’s fingerprint world, scanners, not ink, collect prints, and gigantic automated databases — like the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System — spit out the closest matches in seconds. IAFIS has the prints of more than 55 million subjects in its Criminal Master File. Still, television’s CSI this is not. Despite all that technology, it then falls to fallible human beings to step in and make visual comparisons and the ultimate judgment calls on matches Grits for breakfast published an article over the weekend pointing my attention to a story on the affect of unintentional bias on fingerprint analysis.

Let me start off by saying that I do not bake. It just isn’t my thing. I’m a wicked cook, but my baking skills are right up there with a basket of half drown kittens. It’s just too exact for me. If the recipe calls for 1/4tsp of something- they mean it. I want to make food, not feel like I’m back in high school science. I’m more of a “throw shit in” kinda girl. This weekend however, we raided the ICBC apricot tree next door and somehow, Martha Steward crawled outta my ass and took over my kitchen.

I love Urban Legends and I love Snopes.com …use it all the time. It’s amazing how many sensible intelligent people believe in the silliest things. Even a couple weeks ago I was talking to my girlfriend in Toronto and a silly concept came up. I said “oh my god, thats as funny as people believing the water goes down the drain differently on either side of the equator.” She says…”Oh it does, even ______and his father tested it when they went to Africa” I said, “well then he and his father got ripped off by a con artist” Well, my poor girlfriend who is usually quite sensible had to have me send her a link from Snopes about the water going down the drain wrongly confusing Coroilis Force .

This post is a collection of items I’ve read in the last few days I don’t have time to comment about.  This is collected from over 400 RSS feeds and 100 science/medicine twitter users.Another reason NOT to drink bottled water via Trusted.MDHang hygiene removes influenza virus via Virology BlogMale Sex Chromosome Losing Genes By Rapid Evolution, Study Reveals via Science DailyImprovements In Sexual And Reproductive Health Of Teens And Young Adults Slowing via Medical news todayFat mice missing a

£14.95 Info / Buy Product Information More than just a toy and book, Smart Lab science kits satisfy and engage a child’s curiosity helping science to become an adventure! Each Smart Lab package contains everything kids need to explore and understand the mysteries of science. Smart Lab enthusiastically invites kids to share in the marvels of science with innovative toys and fascinating books! Kids snap together the shark model from the inside out! Fins, gills, muscles, and denticles—not to mention teeth—bring kids eye-to eye with one of the world’s most intriguing creatures.

by Rai Micht Many people face the dental problem called halitosis , also known as bad breath . encountering a person who ha bad breath can give you a disgusting feeling. Halitosis is derived from the Latin word “halitus”, meaning breath. Based on what we have learnt from school, when we do not brush our teeth properly they will rot due to bacteria, causing bad breath is the process. A bad breath or halitosis cure can be difficult to find. Various factors can come up to give you bad breath or halitosis.

Blaine Luetkemeyer has been absorbing some well-deserved criticism the past couple of weeks for his efforts to shut down a Nobel Prize-winning climate change research panel at the UN, which he says is “fraught with waste and is engaged in dubious science.”   Their science is so dubious, in fact, that Luetkemeyer can’t even stoop to reading its research before dismissing it as “junk.” In a bill that thus far has drawn no co-sponsors, Luetkemeyer proposes cutting off contributions from the United States to the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

by Alice Barker Dizzywood is one of the fastest growing and most popular sites on the Web for kids. This fun adventure game combines fun mini-games, awesome character customization and dress-up, and totally safe chat into a great web site for kids, ages 6-13. There are a lot of different places to explore and check out in Dizzywood. This a simple guide to some of the more popular destinations in the game. Unwind at Dizzywood’s Breakwater Beach .

The Global Warming Hoax Posted Monday, July 13, 2009, at 1:09 PM   Isn’t it interesting how all our problems seem to be global these days. A global war on terrorism, a global economic crisis, the need for a global currency, global trade, global health concerns, global warming, etc.It’s almost as if someone is pushing for a one-world government, with a one-world monetary system, a one-world police force, a one-world set of rules and a population of obedient worker bees to keep the whole economic engine going at full throttle.

During a speech this last week to the NAACP, President Obama, among other things, urged parents to “Put away the Xbox.”   Bravo Mr. President, I could not have said it better myself, except that I’ve been screaming this for years! While the president was speaking on education, he just as easily could have been commenting on obesity. So I’ll do it for him. Xbox and all the other video game systems are playing a significant role in the fattening of the world.

Though they won’t admit it publicly, Chinese and Indian political leaders suspect or are convinced that manmade global warming is a manmade hoax, that the branding of carbon dioxide as pollution is junk science aimed at creating yet … See original here:  China Confidential: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming Please Share or Bookmark this post

I was tooling around in the comments section of my Bible Verse Twisting post, and I want to “narrate the debate” so to speak and give you a few insights. Most are actually points I’ve made before, but I need to emphasize them better, and they were displayed beautifully in the comments to that post. Almost right away in the comments, folks started making the very statement that I addressed in the main part of the post. One commenter harped on the notion that there are many interpretations of almost any biblical text, with learned scholars to back them up.

I think the concept was good but I feel almost offended by his term science cause by the interview it seemed like he didn’t follow the scientific method and junk. I also felt that his tone was offensive less then informative. But I love the show and think Marc and Fausto are amazing!!

from ESPN.GO.COM The Staggering Incongruity of Congressional “Thinking” THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter – BuzzFlash All of it bears repeating, no matter how philosophically cliché-ish it’s become The Iraq war was no emergency; there was time for it to be lightly pondered by Congress, debated in editorial pages and on Sunday morning talk shows, argued about among friends and coworkers. Another war was already in progress, at great, unfunded expense.

July is once again upon us, and that means the great pop culture event of the year is almost here and once again, Predatorstuff will be covering the events online almost 24 hours a day from July23rdth to July 26th. This page is the official event summary page, where all the announcements and news from Comic Con will be consolidated as they happen, so you can easily find all the news and coverage from one easy to find page.

Church audits emissions – CathNews According to initial estimates, the Catholic Church produces as much global warming trigger carbon emissions as the Australian Government, minus defence operations. Will the World Bank get involved in a Nigerian carbon credit scam? The World Bank has identified areas of investment opportunities in the clean energy development sector which can fetch Nigeria about $18 billion if explored.

Remember all the fuss about stem cells? Candidate Obama was going to restore science to its rightful place in the wake of the dreadful Bush administration which was apparently completely unfamiliar with science or the scientific method. Embryonic stem cells, freed from the religious fundamentalism of the Bushies, would cure diseases, allow the lame to walk and provide scientific honors for those who engaged in federally funded embryonic stem cell research, as well as endless riches for those who developed the wondrous new treatments.

SOS Forests : Ecobabble From the Fire Community WOPR, 2008 Spotted Owl Recovery Plan Withdrawn Wildfire — Beneficial or Damaging? Beetle Epidemic Caused by Misguided Dogma of Extremists Cost-Plus-Loss Is the Correct Way to Evaluate Fire Damages Return Fire Wildlife and People : Studying Jaguars to Death New Revelations About Reintroduced Wolves USFWS Reinstates Great Lake Wolves As Endangered NYT Gets It Wrong, Again, As Usual Montana Institutes Wolf Hunting Season

I was afraid the Obama Administration was running out of ways to cripple the American economy, but this latest one shows they still have a few tricks up their sleeves! Technorati tags: Gary Locke, greenhouse gases, global warming, junk science

by Joanne Aika Castillo A non-profit Virginia based organization called “Truths in Justice” created a presentation regarding wrongful convictions and the truth behind the injustice. Let us start by reiterating some of the common myths that people have about wrongful convictions. – Everyone in prison claims to be innocent. – Only those people who live on the edge are charged with crimes they didn’t commit. – Wrongfully accused people who were exonerated must have done something that’s why they were suspected in the first place.