Solid and consistent science is there. The people who are confused, think there are contradictions in the science or a lack of it haven't read deeper than popular articles.
I love Dilbert, I've enjoyed many of Scott Adams' opinion on his web site. I disagree with him on this issue and I think his opinion is especially ignorant one considering his intellect.
Science hasn't gotten nutrition and fitness wrong.
People don't want to be told that they can't have everything they want in regards to eating, weight control and health. They don't want to accept that some delayal of gratification is necessary.
This refusal to accept reality fuels the popular diet book market, which floods popular media and popular opinion with misinformation.
If you slow down, go deeper into the literature, and spend time with it you will find that science doesn't have all that many disagreements about nutrition, weight control, how to eat to prevent disease etc.
I keep seeing articles about research showing that people who gravitate toward right wing politics tend to have a psychology dominated by fear, paranoia, and emotional reactions.
I always thought those articles were smug and just a bit self serving.
I guess I still do.
However, with Christie's obvious pandering ( someone should ask him if his kids are vaccinated ) I have to wonder.
It seems like there are a large chunk of people on the right who are ready to accept any story of government lies, conspiracies, designed to pollute them or take something away from them.
It isn't a new thing either. In 2015 it is vaccines, in the 50s it was communists putting fluoride in the water.
The emotionality of it is so fucking disgusting -- and it matters.
There are serious global climate change issues, the U.S. is in danger of losing/retarding the universal healtcare it wanted for so long, and now we have previously eradicated diseases making a comeback.
All because there is a segment of the population that isn't smart enough to know when NOT to let their emotions do their thinking for them.
I learned about the wall on a History Channel documentary.
Nobody was an idiot back then, everyone knew Hitler was a problem. The wall wasn't finished because France was exhausted in resources from WW I. French politicians and people simply didn't want to pay for it.
I'm not a user, but my understanding is that pot is a very hearty plant, easy to grow and cheap to grow. Why invest money, time, and effort in learning to get the THC without it?
Look at home lame Yahoo still is technically, even with former Google engineer Marissa Mayer as their CEO.
OTOH, engineers don't specialize in managing people and that is what is needed in changing a corporate culture. That is tough to do even with people who are talented with people, as well as people who aren't pregnant when taking over a company.
2.3% is quite a distance from the 50% they momentarily achieved.
Would you care to break down your reasoning on how you came up with 2.3% ? Are you engineer and is this your field?
As far as solar power being variable, isn't that what a grid is for? Somewhere either the sun or the wind is out, when it isn't in another place, so the electricity just gets redistributed from where it is to where it is not?
"Up to 60 percent of power might come from nuclear sources"
Eh?
Germany recently got half of its electricity from solar for a few hours and will be able to get 1/3 permanently. Solar generated electricity is almost cheaper than coal generated electricity in Australia.
It those two countries can do that, the United States doesn't need nuclear power on the scale of 60% of our electrical needs.
Supposedly, while fracking may turn the U.S. into a slag heap, fracking is also supposed to bring manufacturing ( not necessarily manufacturing jobs for more than a few people ) back to the U.S. by making energy cheaper.
I wonder if at some point American companies that outsource manufacturing to China will decide to just install the robotic factories in the U.S. to save on transportation costs.
I'm fairly anti-soda, but I do not believe the government should start dictating people's personal habits. I am all for the government doing education campaigns to inspire people make better decisions.
The trouble with that idea is that private industry via the government is suppressing information.
I recently saw the documentary "FedUp", which didn't have much new to say about the evils of sweeteners and refined flour, but it had a lot to say politically.
At one point the U.N. was about to publish a report stating that to safeguard their health in addition to controlling their weight, people should limit their sweetener & refined flour consumption to no more than 10% of their calories a day ( 50 grams of sweetener in your food per day on a 2000 calorie diet. A bottle of grape Fanta soda has 80 grams of sugar, a cup of orange juice has 20 grams ).
In the documentary, it was described how the American food industry used its influence to get the George W. Bush administration to convince the U.N. to not publish that report.
While the grams of sugar might be on food labels, the percentage of the limit is not printed on there--- by conscious choice, making it harder for people to know when they are going overboard.
I was reading an exchange on reddit between someone posting for an anti-gmo event and pro-gmo people criticizing the guy.
The anti-GMO guy pointed out that he recognized the nicknames of the pro-GMO guys from earlier threads. He went on to say the he was suspicious that they were cranks or paid corporate astroturfers.
I'm not taking a side on the GMO thing, but I was shocked that everyone in that thread seemed naive about the existence of corproate astroturfers.
This post was good for reminding people that they exist.
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I couldn't disagree more. That might have been true a long time ago, but nobody learns a new language, at least not well, in a few days.
I have seen too many JSPs and Java functions that literally go for pages.
I wonder what the next headline will be?
"Dilbert Cartoonist Joins Anti-Vaccine Movement"
Well put.
Solid and consistent science is there. The people who are confused, think there are contradictions in the science or a lack of it haven't read deeper than popular articles.
I expected more from Scott Adams.
I love Dilbert, I've enjoyed many of Scott Adams' opinion on his web site. I disagree with him on this issue and I think his opinion is especially ignorant one considering his intellect.
Science hasn't gotten nutrition and fitness wrong.
People don't want to be told that they can't have everything they want in regards to eating, weight control and health. They don't want to accept that some delayal of gratification is necessary.
This refusal to accept reality fuels the popular diet book market, which floods popular media and popular opinion with misinformation.
If you slow down, go deeper into the literature, and spend time with it you will find that science doesn't have all that many disagreements about nutrition, weight control, how to eat to prevent disease etc.
I saw in the news today that Google may be developing its own driverless cabs.
Yipee!
Nice going Google, lets put even more people out of work!
I keep seeing articles about research showing that people who gravitate toward right wing politics tend to have a psychology dominated by fear, paranoia, and emotional reactions.
I always thought those articles were smug and just a bit self serving.
I guess I still do.
However, with Christie's obvious pandering ( someone should ask him if his kids are vaccinated ) I have to wonder.
It seems like there are a large chunk of people on the right who are ready to accept any story of government lies, conspiracies, designed to pollute them or take something away from them.
It isn't a new thing either. In 2015 it is vaccines, in the 50s it was communists putting fluoride in the water.
The emotionality of it is so fucking disgusting -- and it matters.
There are serious global climate change issues, the U.S. is in danger of losing/retarding the universal healtcare it wanted for so long, and now we have previously eradicated diseases making a comeback.
All because there is a segment of the population that isn't smart enough to know when NOT to let their emotions do their thinking for them.
Nobody is forcing you to do anything and quite frankly, with no offense, it doesn't matter to us as it is not our health.
Just as a tip, for your health and to clear up misinformation, it is all about what you are used to.
If you start eating different types of food, your tastes will shift. Even for healthy food.
Exercise may feel like zero fun when you start, I know I have been there.
As you get in better shape you come to enjoy it.
As the OP mentioned, you don't have to do anything dramatic.
Minimize the # of your calories in the form of refined flour products and sweeteners. Get out and start taking a walk every day.
Those things done constituently will make measurable results.
So, the FBI is doing such a great job, they are now concerned about a technology not yet in use.
Neither.
I learned about the wall on a History Channel documentary.
Nobody was an idiot back then, everyone knew Hitler was a problem. The wall wasn't finished because France was exhausted in resources from WW I. French politicians and people simply didn't want to pay for it.
I hereby declare this the best comment of the thread.
Almost. They never finished it. The Nazis were able to around it.
I'm not a user, but my understanding is that pot is a very hearty plant, easy to grow and cheap to grow. Why invest money, time, and effort in learning to get the THC without it?
Corporate culture has a way of pushing back.
Look at home lame Yahoo still is technically, even with former Google engineer Marissa Mayer as their CEO.
OTOH, engineers don't specialize in managing people and that is what is needed in changing a corporate culture. That is tough to do even with people who are talented with people, as well as people who aren't pregnant when taking over a company.
PHB ?
2.3% is quite a distance from the 50% they momentarily achieved.
Would you care to break down your reasoning on how you came up with 2.3% ? Are you engineer and is this your field?
As far as solar power being variable, isn't that what a grid is for? Somewhere either the sun or the wind is out, when it isn't in another place, so the electricity just gets redistributed from where it is to where it is not?
"Up to 60 percent of power might come from nuclear sources"
Eh?
Germany recently got half of its electricity from solar for a few hours and will be able to get 1/3 permanently. Solar generated electricity is almost cheaper than coal generated electricity in Australia.
It those two countries can do that, the United States doesn't need nuclear power on the scale of 60% of our electrical needs.
That is like telling someone
"Don't want to be in a car accident? Quit your job and never leave your home."
Supposedly, while fracking may turn the U.S. into a slag heap, fracking is also supposed to bring manufacturing ( not necessarily manufacturing jobs for more than a few people ) back to the U.S. by making energy cheaper.
I wonder if at some point American companies that outsource manufacturing to China will decide to just install the robotic factories in the U.S. to save on transportation costs.
I'm fairly anti-soda, but I do not believe the government should start dictating people's personal habits. I am all for the government doing education campaigns to inspire people make better decisions.
The trouble with that idea is that private industry via the government is suppressing information.
I recently saw the documentary "FedUp", which didn't have much new to say about the evils of sweeteners and refined flour, but it had a lot to say politically.
At one point the U.N. was about to publish a report stating that to safeguard their health in addition to controlling their weight, people should limit their sweetener & refined flour consumption to no more than 10% of their calories a day ( 50 grams of sweetener in your food per day on a 2000 calorie diet. A bottle of grape Fanta soda has 80 grams of sugar, a cup of orange juice has 20 grams ).
In the documentary, it was described how the American food industry used its influence to get the George W. Bush administration to convince the U.N. to not publish that report.
While the grams of sugar might be on food labels, the percentage of the limit is not printed on there--- by conscious choice, making it harder for people to know when they are going overboard.
It could really be great if pee from livestock and people could become the precursor to people's fuel needs.
Thanks for the very interesting post!
If you are so smart why are you still single?
Seems to be on even slimmer psudeo-scientific ground.
What are the byproducts?
I was reading an exchange on reddit between someone posting for an anti-gmo event and pro-gmo people criticizing the guy.
The anti-GMO guy pointed out that he recognized the nicknames of the pro-GMO guys from earlier threads. He went on to say the he was suspicious that they were cranks or paid corporate astroturfers.
I'm not taking a side on the GMO thing, but I was shocked that everyone in that thread seemed naive about the existence of corproate astroturfers.
This post was good for reminding people that they exist.