Friday, January 24, 2025

Preconceived Science


80% of military volunteers have a family member who served. Between 2019 and 2024, the percentage of conservative veterans who would advise a young family member to join the military declined from 88% to 53%.

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Trump has repeatedly re-upped the idea that broadcast licenses should be contingent on whether they are used to air content that offends him. Last November, for instance, he complained that MSNBC “uses FREE government approved airwaves” to execute “a 24-hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE.” He declared that “our so-called ‘government’ should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity.”--Sullum

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Did anyone hear anything from Harris about climate change?


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The European Union’s plan to tax imports based on emissions is key to its climate strategy. But the bloc’s biggest party now wants to delay the tax, citing the economic impact, OPIS reports. The threat of U.S. tariffs adds to the uncertainty.


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Preconceived Science

A sizable study shows there is little to no evidence that experimental gender procedures improve the mental health of gender-dysphoric children and teens.

The lead researcher of the government-funded study that began in 2015 admitted this week in an interview with the Times that the study did not support the claims of gender activists and explained that she had not released the data out of fear that opponents of gender medicalization would “weaponize” it. 

That is, the study's head did not release the results because the results displeased her.

The study, led by Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the Center for Transyouth Health and Development medical director at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, is now under investigation. But it is difficult to imagine what more is to be learned. The principals of the study did not like the study's conclusions so they suppressed it. What more than the realization of the insincerity and dishonesty of researchers do we need?

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