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Posts made in December, 2021

COVID-19 Caused Trust In Government To Plummet

When 40 million people were unemployed while government employees negotiated with themselves on ways to give a trillion dollar stimulus package to government employees, to independent experts that was just politics as usual.read more

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CDC Boondoggle: First Career Bureaucrats Didn’t Want To Send Coronavirus Tests, Then They Sent Faulty Ones

It is common in a polarized political climate to try and blame the other political party when missteps happen but most government employees are not political appointees, they are career bureaucrats, and sometimes care more about protecting their fiefdoms than in helping the public. read...

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Paper Argues ‘Democracy By Deterrence’ Is In Peril If Voters Need To Show ID

There was a time when politicians worried about a "slippery slope" when it came to political actions. While dirty politics by individuals was always assumed - President Lyndon Johnson set the modern standard for that - overt actions by parties were more thoughtful. The reason was simple; once there was a precedent, the other party could do the same thing when they got into power.That all changed...

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Glyphosate Trials: Even In California, It’s Getting Harder To Find A Jury That Believes Plants Are People

A jury in San Bernardino can't believe that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was caused because she used Roundup.In a post-COVID-19 world, even California, the most anti-science state in the union, which once tried to ban Happy Meals and Golf and claimed the science was on their side, with "may cause cancer" labels on 165,000 products, including the buildings the products are sold in, is no longer...

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Spurious Correlation: Epidemiology Paper Links Virtual Air Pollution To Fatty Liver Disease

A new study hopes to link long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, a name change from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease because it is associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes.  read...

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