Marcus Aurelius
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Facts are being manufactured all of the time, and, as Arbesman shows, many of them turn out to be wrong. Checking each one is how the scientific process is supposed to work; experimental results need to be replicated by other researchers. So how many of the findings in 845,175 articles published in 2009 and recorded in PubMed, the free online medical database, were actually replicated? Not all that many. In 2011, a disquieting study in Naturereported that a team of researchers over 10 years was able to reproduce the results of only six out of 53 landmark papers in preclinical cancer research.
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The whole thing was white, and broken, that much was clear. A week after the presidential election, when the dreams of Republicans were dashed with President Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney, we were snorkeling in the blue waters of the Caribbean. In the distance was a shipwreck. “You could make out the pieces of it,” said Ralph Reed, the right-wing political operator who had bolstered the Evangelical Christian vote for Romney. “It was deep and murky.” Jonah Goldberg, the National Review contributor and author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, (this is a long article but I found it engaging)
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“One of the biggest lies of the Obama narrative is the supposed commitment to transparency,” Mr. Fitton said. “It’s far less transparent than the Bush administration. Just to get a response, in terms of the initial request for documents, we have to sue. We have nearly 1,000 Freedom of Information Act requests, and we’re coming up on 100 Freedom of Information lawsuits against the administration. Everybody agrees that the federal government is doing more than ever, but the transparency hasn’t kept up with the increased activity.”
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While it now seems to us to be Christmas 2012, somewhere behind us it is still Christmas 1941. Imagine you are paddling a canoe downstream. From God´s view above, he sees the bend in the stream you´ve already passed. He sees you now, paddling slowly next to the pines on the bank. He sees beyond the bend ahead, where a deer is lapping the tumbling water. (Snip) It´s December 6th, 1941. A little girl named Arlene is awaiting the arrival of guests for her 8th birthday party. She is growing up American,
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Merry Christmas to the Fourth Estate! Hope you´ve enjoyed your goose or turkey or whatever your family tradition includes (latkes for those who are Jewish). When you return to work, there are a few loose ends on which you might want to follow up. "Follow up." It´s a term that has gone out of style in the age of Obama. You members of the press have become remarkably uncurious since he´s been in the White House. A blanket of benevolent uncuriousness smothers news about Obama administration wrongdoing.
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After a six-month hiatus, the United States and other major powers are trying to resume negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Iran has been enriching uranium in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions for six years, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has threatened military strikes if these activities are not halted by next spring or early summer. It is imperative that all sides make every effort to reach a diplomatic solution. War, of course, would be disastrous. But so would an Iran with a nuclear weapon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/opinion/another-try-at-nuclear-negotiations-with-iran.html?hp&_r=0
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Nicole Hawkins‘ three daughters have matching glittery boots, but none has the same father. Each has uniquely colored ties in her hair, but none has a dad present in her life. As another single mother on Sumner Road decked her row-house stoop with Christmas lights and a plastic Santa, Ms. Hawkins recalled that her middle child’s father has never spent a holiday or birthday with her. In her neighborhood in Southeast Washington, 1 in 10 children live with both parents, and 84 percent live with only their mother.
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In his Christmas message, the Pope said, “The faster we can move, the more efficient our time-saving appliances become, the less time we have." How we rush to fill our days with those time-saving appliances that soon become mere time-filling devices. Mobile phones, iPads, Facebook, tweeting--all, at their best, are staggeringly efficient things that produce extraordinary advances in our working lives.[Snip] Those same marvellous things then come along and devour our spare hours, destroying our capacity for spiritualism, for reading long books and for just thinking. We shouldn´t really blame the devices themselves, more our capacity for being waylaid
About health "facts" being wrong, isn't that obvious through the years? Eggs were good, then eggs were BAD, then eggs are now good again. The same can be said about butter. It would shock us, I know, to learn how all the things that supposedly cause cancer were tested on mice at extremely high levels of dosage. The cause of autism, written about by one of the medical journals, was touted following very bad testing in a very small group. Yet the study is the cause of lawsuits and also keeps us from learning the real cause. Take it all with a grain of salt. The global warming crowd has taught that we caused global warming simply by starting their "findings" at the end of the last Ice Age, ignoring the cycle of Ice Ages and global warming throughout the millenia.
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