28 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. It’s not your imagination.
    The kids really ARE getting stupider.
    “Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some experts believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable”
    The culprits are fluoride, pesticides and high-fructose corn syrup.
    http://naturalsociety.com/leading-geneticist-human-intelligence-slowly-declining/

  3. Probably the best dissection of Liberal anti gun hypocrisy using the scalpel of reason, you will ever read. It’s also a window on how the new liberalism is neither liberal nor “new” –
    “At the time the Constitution was written, the weapons in question were muskets.”
    You know what? You’re right. And marriage was between one man and one woman. So what’s with gay marriage? We should do things just the way they were done 220 years ago. That’s the liberal way.
    “The Heller Decision was by an activist court. It doesn’t count.”
    Indeed. Just like Roe v Wade was an activist decision. It doesn’t count.
    “We’re not trying to take your guns away, just have reasonable limits. It’s a compromise.”
    And some people want reasonable limits on abortion, like waiting periods, gestational time limits, ultrasound, etc. It’s a reasonable response to an activist court decision, and reasonable restrictions on a right, for public benefit.
    And no one is saying you can’t ride the bus. You just have to sit where people think is reasonable. No one is saying women can’t work. They just have to get paid what is reasonable for the work they do, allowing for the fact they’re going to leave the workplace and raise a family. It’s a compromise.
    More here – http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/item/the-post-in-which-i-piss-off-everybody

  7. D.o.
    That’s a bogus column you linked too.
    While the genetic selection article might have some validity, the selection pressure during Socrates time largely was toward physical as opposed to mental strength for the vast majority of the human population.
    As for HF Corn syrup and pesticides making the human pop. Less mentally strong that’s pure hogwash.

  8. As for HF Corn syrup and pesticides making the human pop. Less mentally strong that’s pure hogwash. Posted by: Gord Tulk
    …but of course, everyone knows that HF Corn syrup and pesticides are good for you; eat your chemicals and support the never ending search for the drug to cure cancer. Keep your hogwash pure.

  9. North of 60.
    The problem is the assumption that more ‘natural’ is somehow better. That is clearly not proven.

  10. @OLD LORI
    I have written, typed,and now submitted yet another for as well as my wife!!
    I have done my part if we lose sun news network all of those who sat on there hand have nothing to complain about!!

  14. The problem is the assumption that more ‘natural’ is somehow better. That is clearly not proven.Posted by: Gord Tulk
    More un-natural is NOT better, That is clearly proven.

  15. I’ve been living outside of Canada for a while. I’ve been checking out the CBC website. I was tickled pink to see my rightwing comments being published, or ast least that’s what I thought. I checked my account, it showed my comments as being published. Much to my dismay, none of the commnets had actually been publised for the public to see. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Must be the time difference.

  16. Ummm Gord, you have to be right because we alllll know that un-natural substances never get banned because of health reasons. Lawyer starve everywhere because of this very reason.

  17. “Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some experts believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable”
    The culprits are fluoride, pesticides and high-fructose corn syrup.
    No. The culprits are unionized,socialist teachers,uncaring parents and/or helicopter parents,school boards who bend to special interest groups,teachers purposely dumbing down their classes,because math is hard,awarding stars for showing up,and not failing the little dears,etc.

  18. I went to the anti-Sun site and gave my support.
    I also took a look around. Their clients are basically as expected,unions and such. I was hoping to find who was behind this effort to block the Sun. I could not find that info,but a couple of their clients are ,the “David Suzuki Foundation”,and the “Friends of Canadian Broadcasting”. The president of the ‘Public Response’ company is Steve Staples,often seen on the state broadcaster.
    Interesting. A cynic may say that it looks like our very own CBC is conducting an arms-length campaign to block competition.
    http://www.publicresponse.ca/clients-2

  19. Ontario Youth Soccer Assoc. has just announced that it is no longer permissible to keep game scores. They submit that they want to develop the players in a more “holistic” manner.
    Jesus wept!

  20. Of Der Rot-Green: “We sent up a bright red flare to the rest of the world”.
    Rot-Green Uber Ontari-ari-O.
    …-
    “Dalton McGuinty defends green energy pledge”
    “Dalton McGuinty didn’t waver from his commitment to renewable energy, which includes more wind farms, the Green Energy Act and a $7-billion deal with Samsung.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/12/06/wdr-mcguinty-defends-green-energy-auditor.html
    …-
    “Germany’s Green Nightmare”
    “Marketed in Germany like a beach dream, renewable energy rather looks set to become a financial nightmare.”
    “600.000 Haushalte ohne Strom”
    http://www.thegwpf.org/germanys-green-nightmare/

  21. I’m with you on this. I believe the premise is true, but as survival becomes easier and less effort has to be put into it, the survival of the fittest imperative is no longer there. In the modern world the smart overachievers who actually contribute to the advancement of civilization tend to have very few children. Welfare moochers tend to have the most. The meek won’t inherit the world, the welfare moochers will. Where will this leave us in a few generations?

  23. I think you are correct. The data is collected from generations who aren’t being educated and otherwise developed to their potential. It is much too soon to determine whether the genetic potential for intelligence in the species as a whole is being or has been degraded.

  26. “Ahhhhhhhhhaha. Scratch a Tides,Soros,WWF,eco-cultist,leftie website, and see the hypocrisy. So it’s aokay for taxpayers to fund the left’s media arm,the CBC,but not for taxpayers to fund Sun News? The left believes in free speech,as long as it is their speech. Racist against Conservatives!!!
    Poated this on the anti-Sun site. Any odds on it getting published?

  27. http://naturalsociety.com/leading-geneticist-human-intelligence-slowly-declining/
    Harvard is about as about as solid as it gets. It’s hard for nay-saying whiners to denounce an institution of people who are — by and large — smarter and more experienced than the nascent nay-saying community.
    One study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that pesticides, which are rampant among the food supply, are creating lasting changes in overall brain structure — changes that have been linked to lower intelligence levels and decreased cognitive function. Specifically, the researchers found that a pesticide known as chlorpyrifos (CPF) has been linked to ”significant abnormalities”. Further, the negative impact was found to occur even at low levels of exposure.
    Following 14,000 children, British researchers uncovered the connection between processed foods and reduced IQ. After recording the children’s’ diets and analyzing questionnaires submitting by the parents, the researchers found that if children were consuming a processed diet at age 3, IQ decline could begin over the next five years. The study found that by age 8, the children had suffered the IQ decline. On the contrary, children who ate a nutrient-rich diet including fruit and vegetables were found to increase their IQ over the 3 year period. The foods considered nutrient-rich by the researchers were most likely conventional fruits and vegetables.
    Interestingly, one particular ingredient ubiquitous in processed foods and sugary beverages across the globe -high fructose corn syrup – has been tied to reduced IQ. The UCLA researchers coming to these findings found that HFCS may be damaging the brain functions of consumers worldwide, sabotaging learning and memory. In fact, the official release goes as far to say that high-fructose corn syrup can make you ‘stupid’.

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