The Sound Of Settled Science

Unsettled Science 28 Comments

The scientific method, illustrated;

[A] researcher who provided key evidence of (non-celiac disease) gluten sensitivity recently published follow-up papers that show the opposite. […]
The subjects cycled through high-gluten, low-gluten, and no-gluten (placebo) diets, without knowing which diet plan they were on at any given time. In the end, all of the treatment diets – even the placebo diet – caused pain, bloating, nausea, and gas to a similar degree. It didn’t matter if the diet contained gluten. (Read more about the study.)
“In contrast to our first study… we could find absolutely no specific response to gluten,” Gibson wrote in the paper. A third, larger study published this month has confirmed the findings.

Bravo.

Showing Up To Riot

Climate Cult 22 Comments

Well, in their own legislative way: GOP Lawmaker Pushes Bill BANNING EPA Officials From Airline Travel

The amendment is likely an effort to get EPA officials to practice what they preach. Republicans have criticized top EPA officials for logging thousands of air travel miles while issuing regulations on how much carbon dioxide can be emitted by power plants, cars and other sources.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and the head of EPA’s clean air office Janet McCabe both said they travel home from Washington, D.C. on weekends to visit their families. McCarthy regularly goes to Boston, Massachusetts, and McCabe heads out to Indianapolis, Indiana on weekends.
McCabe has also spent a lot of time travelling around the country promoting the agency’s so-called Clean Power Plan — a set of rules aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Now pass it, dammit.

Nailed it.

You Might Be A Liberal 25 Comments

A referendum on any proposed change to how we elect our government is a must. Not only because such a change requires the consent of the governed, but doing so would require the Liberals to actually define what the change is going to be.

Liberal opposition to a plebiscite more likely stems from the fear it would go decidedly against them, and ruin their chance to gerrymander the electoral system to favour the election of future Liberal governments.

Related.

I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative

Forward! Terrorism The Tolerant Left 38 Comments

Breitbart;

There has been a deluge of anti-cop threats on Twitter, many of which calling for the mass murder of police officers.
Hatred towards police is nothing we haven’t seen on the timelines of Twitter before, but the past three days have brought an onslaught of highly violent calls to action. A search query for phrases such as “kill pigs” “kill police” and such pulls back thousands of posts. Many of these are blatant threats to all police, regardless of their relevance to past incidents.

I, Napoleon

Moonbats 41 Comments

Go girlfriend, go!

Two unnamed British athletes born male are reportedly set to become the first transgender women to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio, and preparation to hail this human-rights breakthrough is already underway. But what the Olympic Committee and the media are loath to discuss is that their system for allowing transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category is ripe for abuse.

Let’s hope they’re boxers. The more multi-billion dollar institutions turned into laughingstocks to accommodate this insanity, the better.

“Just doing my small part”

Religion Of Submission Terrorism 3 Comments

The forgotten other U.S. terror attack on LGBT:

Yet the American government never treated the Brown murders as acts of domestic terrorism as they are calling the Orlando massacre at the gay nightclub. And perhaps because media reporting of the Brown case was so scattered, episodic, and highly localized, most of us have never even heard of it in a way that would have afforded the nation an opportunity to comfort the families of the victims, who also were targeted because they were LGBT. Neither were the families given the benefit of a formal federal declaration as to WHY their loved ones died: the retribution of radical Islam. And lastly, when federal authorities declare an act of terrorism, full investigations tend to unfold for co-conspirators, foreign connections, lessons learned, intelligence failures and so on… Without a terrorism acknowledgement, it’s unclear if this case ever prompted such all-important introspective treatment, or more importantly, rolled up other cocked and loaded Islamic extremists.

Comey, Live

Uncategorized 27 Comments

FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Updated link to livestream here.

And why would he?

During testimony before Congress on Thursday, FBI Director James Comey stated that the FBI’s interview with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not under oath or recorded, but it still would be a crime to lie to the FBI.
Comey stated that he did not personally interview Clinton, and did not talk to all of the “five or six” who did interview Clinton.

Brexit, Continued

#Brexit 7 Comments

Joe Oliver;

The reaction to Bexit by some commentators, including several in Canada, has been near apocalyptic. Shock, anger and bitterness were accompanied by accusations of racism, atavistic parochialism and isolationism. The vote was greeted with withering contempt for the country’s supposedly crypto-fascist leadership and Little Englanders who were either ignorant or bigoted, or likely both.
That reaction is not respectful of a decision freely rendered by a sovereign people. To the contrary, some empathy should be extended to a country that has a deep democratic tradition and a long history of usually getting things right. Further, we need to understand the underlying reasons when the popular will goes against prevailing opinion of the political, financial and intellectual establishment.

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