This Is Awkward

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Colby Cosh;

Ghomeshi was offered a chance to walk away, go across the street, and find a comfortable cage in a drive-time Morning Zoo. Some people were initially impressed that he refused to do this and went on Facebook to burn the world’s entire supply of bridges instead. It sort of looked like integrity, if you squinted.

And now there’s a name.

Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place

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WUWT;

[The] EPA has stunned observers, with a list of inert additives for pesticide formulations they intend to ban, which includes the noble gas Argon.
Its hard to imagine a more inoffensive substance than Argon. As a noble gas, Argon is chemically inert – it participates in no chemical reactions whatsoever, except under exotic conditions – there are no known chemical compounds which can survive at room temperature which include Argon. Argon is not a greenhouse gas.
[…]
So why on Earth would the EPA plan to ban something as inoffensive as Argon? IceAgeNow has a theory – they think Argon is part of a list supplied by a scientifically illiterate NGO, which the EPA plans to rubber stamp.

Hey, if they can regulate dirt…

Renegade Regulator

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Hewlett-Packard Recalls CSA Certified Products

We know that CSA has been selling influence over legislated standards and that manufacturers have been trading money for influence on CSA standards committees. We also know that CSA safety testing sometimes doesn’t involve any testing at all. We know that in practice, the CSA certification sticker means almost nothing.
What we don’t know is what went wrong with this certification.

Nova Scotia Vapours

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Nova Scotia is planning on banning the sale of flavoured e-liquid.

The Nova Scotia Legislature just passed the 2nd reading of Bill 60 and sent it to the Law Ammendments Committee. If there is no public response to this committee – it will likely go forward as is and become law.

If you live in Nova Scotia and have issues with this, this thread has good instructions for helping to stop this.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

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National Payola Radio;

[L]et me ask you whether you heard that [the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation], who also has a strong agenda on healthcare, just gave $1.3 million to NPR to report on this topic?
No, you probably didn’t hear about that gift either, by — a grant that has caused zero controversy.
Come to think of it, I didn’t recall any controversy when RWJF gave National Public Radio $5.6 million to report on healthcare between 2008 and 2011, during a period when this was among the most politicized of all topics.
You’d think that somebody would at least have raised an eyebrow, given that RWJF is a strong proponent of the Affordable Care Act, as well as other healthcare policy positions on the progressive side of the spectrum.

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