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    Astrophysicist Paul Sutter on trusting science—and why so many people don’t

    Right now everyone in public health is either dealing with intense trauma or pretending that we just have "a little post-traumatic stress". Fuck the fuck off with this fucking hostility to people who have dedicated their lives to keeping you alive. Sorry, but this needed to be said. How...
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    Astrophysicist Paul Sutter on trusting science—and why so many people don’t

    The data does not support this position. The data has an R2 of nearly .9 showing a relationship between bad metabolic health and BMI. They are saying the opposite that BMI is Bullshit both in the press release and in the paper itself. What is wrong with the message? They are wrong, they...
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    Astrophysicist Paul Sutter on trusting science—and why so many people don’t

    If there is science in the news it will almost always be because the University or research center they work at put out a Press Release pushing the report/study. One of the most reported studies in the last 5-10 years is "Misclassification of cardiometabolic health when using body mass index...
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    Astrophysicist Paul Sutter on trusting science—and why so many people don’t

    If you are running a family farm you have at least a BS in Ag and probably a masters and/or MBA on top of it. But, this is the common lazy view that farmers are bunch of yokals that fall for the latest snake oil. When the reality is they are running a business that has low margins and every...
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    Astrophysicist Paul Sutter on trusting science—and why so many people don’t

    Just saying maybe 'Science' should get its house in order first. You have entire fields where a coin flip has a better chance of being reproduced than peer review research published in quality journals in the field and this is not just psychology and social science even areas of biology are...
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    Astrophysicist Paul Sutter on trusting science—and why so many people don’t

    Preach. And it's been Euro companies buying up farmlands across Africa and planting their inferior seeds that cause more deforestation, release more carbon and require more inputs (herbicides, pesticides etc). The US is over a quarter no till and over 60% conservation tilling. South America...
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    Starlink hikes prices to $599 up-front and $110 per month, blames inflation

    "The sole purpose of these adjustments is to keep pace with rising inflation." Translation. We have the ability to raise prices without taking to much of a public relations backlash or with customers looking for alternatives. If it was about rising costs they would have said that.
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    Shkreli’s infamous 4,000% price hike gets him a lifetime pharma ban

    This right here. This is what all the high profile cases seem to be anymore. Operation Varsity Blues the feds used the mastermind to go after Aunt Becky for the crime of writing the check to the wrong person. But, the public ate it up and every president at a top tier University breathed a...
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    Jury in Elizabeth Holmes trial deadlocked on 3 of 11 counts

    He committed the ultimate sin of not even attempting to hide the greed and letting the world see how the rest of the industry works.
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    Willfully unvaccinated should pay 100% of COVID hospital bills, lawmaker says

    And? This law would allow insurance companies not to pay for care.
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    Willfully unvaccinated should pay 100% of COVID hospital bills, lawmaker says

    You are an idiot if you dont get vaxxed. That said really people here think this is a good idea? What should be next after this is no coverage of smoking. Applaud that one too let's see how you like the next one. No insulin if your BMI is over 50 or 40 or 30.
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    Cadillac says goodbye to the performance V8 with 200 mph CT5-V Blackwing

    LOL at the thought of a dealer markup on a station wagon. They can't give them away and usually only have them on the lot because a customer backed out of an order or need to take one in order to get some allotment slots for cars that actually sell. The only people that want a wagon are those...
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    Cadillac says goodbye to the performance V8 with 200 mph CT5-V Blackwing

    These engines are not built on a line they are built by 1 individual at their own work station in a separate section of the Bowling Green Plant. They just take a cart that has all the parts and then work on the engine at the desk. The non-top of the line engines are built on a line though, the...
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    Cadillac says goodbye to the performance V8 with 200 mph CT5-V Blackwing

    They used to but surprise surprise the 1000s of comments on car sites of people demanding and saying they would buy one did not lead to any actual sales.
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    Cadillac says goodbye to the performance V8 with 200 mph CT5-V Blackwing

    Its one single person that assembles the entire engine. IIRC there are about a dozen or two on a shift and they produce all the top supercharged engines such as this, the ZR1 and the ZL1. In the C7 days you can option it to include a build your engine if you were buying a ZR1 where you would...
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    Report: Indian government is planning outright ban on cryptocurrency

    I can take this ebil fiat to the store and buy milk and eggs or a tv or a PS5 or any manner of legal things. Bitcoin on the other hand outside of some nominal proof of concept is used for nothing but illegal activities. Its speculative value is derived from its ability to be used for illegal...
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    Report: Indian government is planning outright ban on cryptocurrency

    Hey now, how else am I supposed to pay for small arms? Or my 10 metric ton heroin shipment? Or get paid in my latest black mail scheme?
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    CDC to release guide for life after vaccination—with normalcy still far off

    Again how is conspiracy nonsense, they did not just lie (or worse not know) about masks, they have been months behind on the science constantly during COVID. It is taking OpEds to embarrass them to look at the evidence, not just masks but aerosols. This is not at all what you said in your...
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    CDC to release guide for life after vaccination—with normalcy still far off

    This is yet another problem with the CDC messaging. We are so close by June we will have every adult that wants a shot with a shot, hell we are a few weeks from most seniors having a shot that want one. Yet instead of saying it looks promising that we can lift mask and social distancing this...