First two don’t count: “The longer the participants had been exposed to socialism, the greater the likelihood that _______“
This Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose.
Pollspotting
Are you in favour of a carbon tax? (h/t Grandad)
Update: Something seems to have gone wrong…
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips, filmed at Madison Square Garden during Crossroads 2013, guitar legend Eric Clapton and friends (seated front stage from L-R Andy Fairweather-Low, Clapton, and Vince Gill) play Lay Down Sally.
That’s Greg Leisz playing slide on the dobro.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
The Sound Of Settled Science
The most unkindest cut of all:
Men with vasectomies may be at an increased risk for the most lethal form of prostate cancer, researchers have found. […]
The lead author, Lorelei A. Mucci, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, emphasized that a vasectomy does not increase the risk for prostate cancer over all. “We’re really seeing the association only for advanced state and lethal cancers,” she said.
So that’s reassuring.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Nenshi’s Calgary: Aislan Ali, a Palestinian supporter who had observed both clashes, said the pro-Israel side had provoked the violence, saying they shouldn’t have showed up during the demonstration.
"…”When you’re wearing that, what do you expect is going to happen here?” the officer asked him." http://t.co/4G0xk0R3Cw
— Rob Breakenridge (@RobBreakenridge) July 19, 2014
Meanwhile in Londonistan, where multiculturalism has had time to mature…
Jonathan Turley: The Rise Of The Uber-Presidency
Transcript. (h/t Maz2)
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
Last week, we reported that PLoS ONE was retracting three papers by [Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) in Chandigarh, India] because “there are no data available underlying this study and thus…the published results are fabricated.” Now, according to The Hindu, four more papers are being retracted…
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Actually, that’s not quite accurate.
I think the world is being run by aliens. Because only someone who has never been a child could think like this.
Related*
Those Moderate Muslims!
Reader Tips
Let’s Have a Jubilee / We need some singin’ / to send ol’ trouble on his way.. ♫
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
This Is Awkward
Olivia Chow campaign volunteer.
Great Moments In Democratic Statesmanship
“…if there is evidence linking Russia to this, that should inspire the Europeans to do much more.”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Seems the media uses the same application to screen their experts as they use to screen Dem politicians. http://t.co/nNZxN8ED8s #MH17
— Vhey (@VheyPreexa) July 18, 2014
h/t Kevin B
Renegade Regulator
A Canadian Standards Association “Certified” home.
And a new site – CSAStory.ca
Global Test
Breitbart: Amidst Plane Attack Chaos, State Dept. Spokesperson Tweets Out Fashion Column
This Is An Imaginary AK-47
We know this because…
More Pavilions At Folkfest
A damning report into the alleged Trojan horse crisis in Birmingham schools has uncovered evidence of “co-ordinated, deliberate and sustained action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into some schools in the city”.
The conclusion comes from a leaked draft of a report, commissioned by the former Education Secretary Michael Gove and written by Peter Clarke, the former head of the Metropolitan police’s counterterrorism command, which is due to be published in the next 24 hours.
But hey – we need “skilled” immigrants!
The Sound Of Settled Science
The “Science Publishing Complex”;
Using the entire Scopus database, we estimated that there are 15,153,100 publishing scientists (distinct author identifiers) in the period 1996-2011. However, only 150,608 (<1%) of them have published something in each and every year in this 16-year period (uninterrupted, continuous presence [UCP] in the literature). This small core of scientists with UCP are far more cited than others, and they account for 41.7% of all papers in the same period and 87.1% of all papers with >1000 citations in the same period.