20 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. Instead, he said, his discovery and analysis of long-lost data underline how the failure to publish the results of clinical trials can undermine truth

    So, just like Google disappearing certain “offensive” articles … science can squash research that doesn’t agree with their preconceived conclusions. It seems that today’s “truths” are … in reality … deep fakes.

    PS … I eat butter … sweet cream butter … and every type of meat, red, white and pink. I use olive oil and safflower oil (higher burn temp.). But I don’t touch margarine or anything like it. And don’t eat packaged foods with hydrogenated oils. My cholesterol is in the ideal ranges both good and bad. Eat all types of food … as we were designed to do.

    Sweet cream ladies, forward march
    https://youtu.be/cdqbGKnsWTA

    1. Harvard University describes healthy types of oils such as olive and canola. WTF? Canola is not a healthy type of oil. It is one of the most highly processed oils you can buy. Who makes this stuff up?

  2. So what other shocking news do you have?

    That government doesn’t do a good job on roads?
    That government health care means dieing in a queue?
    That government power companies specialize in unreliable and outages?
    That government police protect protesters instead of the law abiding?

    Anyone who depends on the government to tell them what to eat, what to drive, what to think, what to say, for education, for elder care, for childcare, for healthcare, for foodcare, for drug care, for dental care, …

    Deserves all the self inflicted pain they bring on themselves.

    1. Not entirely true Kevin. Sometimes you can die in the hallway of the hospital – 50 feet from the Emergency Entrance. That is why the motto of the ambulance drivers is “We’ll get you there”. And the motto of the nurses is “Whose looking after that guy in the hallway”. And the motto of the doctors is “Fore…”.

  3. Speaking of settled science – h/t Anthony Watts

    “How I changed my mind… about global warming”…an essay by Professor Byron Sharp, Professor of Marketing Science, Director Ehrenberg-Bass Institute.

    “Short summary: I now worry less about global warming than I did, the scientific evidence is that it’s not going to be catastrophic. PS Our best course of action is to adapt to the effects and to invest in R&D to develop new low carbon energy.”
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/11/how-i-changed-my-mind-about-global-warming/

    1. The only reason to invest in other forms of energy is long term, like several hundred years. Plenty of time to get fusion going. Also, current atomic power systems have effectively endles supplies; we do need to invest in recycling the waste – fast reactors, etc. Also, unleashing additional enormous sources of energy, other forms of fission reactors. But no need to panic, we have hundreds of years of fossil fuels alone.

      It make me feel warm all over, that thought. And the concomitant thought that the greens will be wildly and crushingly dissappointed when the Earth doesn’t die and we don’t run out of energy.

      Cheap energy is a successful public policy, just as is cheap food. Both are necessary to a long and comparitively painless life. Imagine the greenies complaining about cheap and abundant food!

      BTW What made food cheap and abundant was energy – FIRE! I BRING YOU HELL FIRE!
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE Ah, Top of the Pops!

  4. “No one knows why the Minnesota results were not published decades ago.”

    Here’s why:

    “[Frantz’s] beliefs about the dangers of saturated fat”

    Clearly, the results didn’t support his theory.

    1. Wait a minute, was this another guy taken down by Ancel Keys?

      So Ancel Keys took down John Yudkin.
      Ancel Keys took down Ivan Frantz.

      I am surprised Ancel Keys did not win a Nobel prize, like Hermann Muller or Yasser Arafat.

      The timing is right. ‘Pure White and Deadly’ was 1972…

      FUCK; Ancel Keys was one of the other researchers ON THIS PAPER.

  5. Government research has always been: “This is the result we want, you (I.e. taxpayer funded scientists) make it true.”
    The only “settled science” is what some unaccountable bureaucrat deems it to be. Any findings in opposition to the deemed conclusion is disregarded or erased.

    1. Government research has always been: “This is the result we want, you (I.e. taxpayer funded scientists) make it true.”

      Having worked with government-funded researchers in academe, it’s more like: “This is the lifestyle we want, you, the taxpayer, make it true.” They’re so used to feeding at the golden hog trough that they don’t care what the results are, so long as someone else pays for them and the stuff they want to play with.

      The concept of a budget is something that totally escapes them. A long time ago, I worked for a firm that designed and built hardware for certain government researchers. I remember one meeting we had with our academic clients with a bean-counter from the old Department of Supply and Services tagging along.

      We discussed things like deadlines and design details with our clients. It bored the DSS thingy and he soon started dozing off. When our clients decided that the specifications that had been agreed to when the contract was signed weren’t good enough and they wanted some more bells and whistles added to to their toy, Mr. DSS suddenly woke up. Obviously, the extra doohickeys they wanted would have cost more money and Mr. DSS didn’t like that.

      Those government-funded academic researchers saw the taxpayer as an endless source of money. (“For a bit more money, our voltages will be, well, voltager! The temperatures we can measure will be more Celsiuser!”) Uh, no. You’ve got only so much money on hand, so spend it sparingly and spend it wisely because once it’s gone, that’s it. You can get good data with stuff that costs a lot less and doesn’t have solid gold knobs on it.

      Like Sir Ernest Rutherford once said, “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. Now we have to think.”

      1. My wife, in a past life, used to tell a lot of stories about interior design contracts for the Alberta government and how expensive they were. In the real world a contractor would build an 8 ft long wall and likely wire it by stealing from the nearest plug with or without an electrician. In my wife’s world, she would design an 8 foot wall, sub out the plug electrical to an electrical engineer, find a contractor who would need a master electrician to get the permit and once the job was done, everyone has to come back to see that it was done with maybe an interim visit before covering the structural and wiring. A $1000 job in the real world quickly became a $10,000 in government.

  6. I’d consider a truer review of scientific facts are to be found in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
    And, by way of settled science, I’ve learnt that the famous study which proved Second Hand Smoke entitles one to cash rewards has not been independently collaborated by repeated research.

    1. Second Hand Smoke doesn’t kill anyone (generally speaking, there are allergies).
      Anyone in their 50’s and up grew up in a blue cloud of smoke from their parents and are fine.
      One of the many cooked studies to control the public.

  7. I read up on my dosage of lipitor. It said the people had lower cholesterol but didn’t live as long. I started cutting my pills in half. Switching from animal fat to vegetable oil lowers cholesterol but you die earlier. Just about every diet “rule” out there is being proven to be bullshit. Most research nowadays appears to be totally fake, results oriented, crap.

  8. The Soros mob again. Of course, the USA would be a major accomplishment. The Amazing Polly has a good one on the Ukraine.

  9. For myself, a good friend suggested I read “Eat Right for your Blood Type” about 8 years ago. What a revelation! I am O+, basically neanderthal, which is why O+ is the universal donor blood. I should eat lots of meat, fish, raw foods (vegetables, nuts), not a lot of processed foods or too much sugar! I should not eat much pork, rice, potatoes or corn, which is interesting as those are the foods which I have trouble digesting. Apparently O+ people do not have the right enzymes present in their blood to help break down these foods.

  10. So why was the study not published? Simple.

    As the sons now admit, their junk scientist father was an anti-animal-fat fanatic.

    Dear old Dad realized the study revealed that his dietary dogma was the exact opposite of the truth. Rather than admit that his blessed margarine was killing people, he buried the results in his basement.

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