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Great Moments In Socialism It's Probably Nothing nannystate 26 Comments

When pandemic measures began mandating restaurant closures and the segregation of businesses into “essential” versus “non-essential” enterprises, we were assured that this could never be a long term problem because the economy would “recover”. In reality, recovery is starting to look an awful lot like recession.

Bankruptcy filings in food services have spiked 116 per cent since 2022, according to Restaurants Canada. It says about half of restaurants are unprofitable right now, compared to only 12 per cent before the pandemic.

Restaurants Canada is calling on the federal government to extend the CEBA repayment deadline. The program offered interest-free loans of up to $60,000 to small businesses and not-for-profits. The deadline to pay back loans is Dec. 31, 2023.

Restaurants Canada estimates 20 per cent of its members won’t be able to pay back the loans by deadline.

 

What Would We Do Without Peer Review?

Science 32 Comments

Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common

When neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabel put his new fake-paper detector to work, he was “shocked” by what it found. After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%. Both numbers, which he and colleagues report in a medRxiv preprint posted on 8 May, are well above levels they calculated for 2010—and far larger than the 2% baseline estimated in a 2022 publishers’ group report.

“It is just too hard to believe” at first, says Sabel of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and editor-in-chief of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. It’s as if “somebody tells you 30% of what you eat is toxic.”

Saturday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 10 Comments

Trudeau’s Canada:  Justin is insulting foreign leaders again.  A second carbon tax.  Rewriting Canada’s history.

Today In Islam:  Muslim outreach in Britain.  Marvel’s Muslim superhero (JW).  And diversity in Germany (JW).

Biden’s America:  The trans mind virus.  Deeply debilitated Democrats.  Biden’s Brazilian trans activists.  They were with her.  Old Joe Biden looks confused.  A fashion idol.  Your morning meme.

Woke Britain:  Some people should not have children.  Which gender are you?

Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa

Climate Cult Democrats 21 Comments

Just in time for millions of new electric stoves: NNew York has “No Plan B” for the power plants they’re shutting down

“At an IPPNY convention in the fall, DEC commissioner Basil Seggos was asked how the state planned to “bridge” the gap until renewable power comes online.

“Listen, I don’t think there is a plan B, alright,” Seggos said. “And I mean that seriously about our opportunity right now, I don’t think we have a plan B. I think that we are on the edge right now when it comes to global climate change and emissions, I really firmly believe that. So we have one shot to get this right. That’s what makes this so challenging.”

The Sound Of Settled Science

Unsettled Science 25 Comments

Via Phantom Soapbox: Speed of light violated, spooky action at a distance confirmed

Albert Einstein was famously uneasy with some of the consequences of quantum entanglement. If quantum mechanics were right, then a pair of entangled objects would behave as a single quantum system no matter how far apart the objects were. Altering the state of one of them should instantly alter the state of the second, with the change seemingly occurring faster than light could possibly travel between the two objects. This, Einstein argued, almost certainly had to be wrong.

Judge Your Doctor By The Colour Of Their Skin

Khmer Noir The "W" Word 34 Comments

Race as a reliable indicator.

An article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that medical students should be segregated based upon race during their education in order to better facilitate anti-racist medicine.

The article entitled “Racial Affinity Group Caucusing in Medical Education — A Key Supplement to Antiracism Curricula,” written by faculty and administrators at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, contends that separating White and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) medical students into racial affinity group caucuses (RAGCs) can play an essential “part of a broader antiracism and anti-oppression curriculum.”

Because of the “legacies of colonialism and racism” in medical training that have “historically centered White learners,” the authors of the article argue that extant medical school structures are “retraumatizing” for BIPOC students. […]

“In a space without White people, BIPOC participants can bring their whole selves, heal from racial trauma together, and identify strategies for addressing structural racism,” the article states.

Well, at least they’re capitalizing White now. I suppose that means something.

How Big Was the Trucker Protest?

Let Them Eat Taser The Tolerant Left 17 Comments

Donna Laframboise;

Having covered landowner protests and dairy farmer protests previously, he knew the drill. Journalists are supposed to talk to people. “I basically went around and said, ‘Why are you here? Why are you here?'” to Freedom Convoy participants. Some of his reporting “kind of got circulated a bit,” he says, which attracted “the online hate crowd.”

A tall, physically imposing man who’s been targeted by animal rights activists in the past, Ian says he isn’t easily intimidated. But the vitriolic blowback – including death threats to the company that prints the Ontario Farmer – was a shock to other staff members.

Friday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 25 Comments

Biden’s America:  The narcissists, frauds and enablers.  Capitalists don’t want communist coffee.  Hang the D.J.  The Adidas women’s swimsuits.  And lesbian terrorists.  Your morning meme.

Global Warming Scam News:  No sun. No wind. Big problem.   China Virus News:  More evidence of leak.

Britain:  Another history lesson with Neil Oliver.   And Neil takes a look at Lord Nelson.  Peter Hitchens asks does ADHD really exist?

Trudeau’s Canada:  Changes to the oath of office (CBC).  Oh look! Trudeau makes a fool of himself again.  The colonial genocide continues.  Exciting news for the Trudeau cult. Justin’s wife has signed a two book deal.  Freeland sneaks in another tax.

Today In Islam:  A story you won’t find in the Canadian media (JW).  A NATO member (JW).

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