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Divemedic has a must-read post about what science is and is not. Quite frankly, it is a brital - and much needed - takedown of "Trust the Science". I won't excerpt any of it because you need to read the whole thing, but he includes example after example of "Settled Science" which resulted in horrifying tragedy. Some of these won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, for crying out loud.
Yes, he also talks about COVID without belaboring it.
However, in his excellent discussion about science as a process, he does not (much) delve into what happens to that process when it gets corrupted by moneyed interests. ClimateGate was perhaps the gold standard of that, explained spectacularly by Dr. Richard Muller from UC Berkeley's Earth Sciences Department.
There are two things to point out here: Dr. Muller is not one of those beastly Science Deniers like your humble host, be is a professional climate scientist and the driving force behind a climate database that is less corrupt than the others - the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature series.
The second thing to point out is the guy at the center of the ClimateGate scandal - and the scientist who Muller will no longer read papers published by him - was one of the Lead Authors of the IPCC Assessment Reports. These are supposedly the gold standard science, and it is entirely corrupt.
Scientist Hal Lewis explained why the establishment keeps doing this in his spectacular resignation from the American Physical Society (basically the professional association of Sheldon Coopers):
I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise.Emphasis from me.
There is a reason that I have post tags for junk science and climate bullshit. There's a reason that there are dozens or hundreds of posts tagged with those. The science was bought and paid for, just like Divemedic's nutrition science example.
It's ironic that what is finally killing Global Warming is the manic push for AI datacenters. The big money is on to chasing a better graft.
I got a notice for jury duty. On the notice, it told me that I had been selected for criminal jury duty.
Jury duty i the backbone of our judicial system, both criminal and civil. It is the backbone against governmental overreach. Twelve citizens, unaffiliated with the system, pass judgement on both the defendant and the state.
Yet, as a long tenured veteran of that system I know that they don't want me. The prosecution would not want me because as a long serving veteran f police work, I know what hanky-panky they are capable of and would apply that knowledge to the state's case. The defense would not want me due to 37 years of putting bad guys behind bars.
Luckily, Louisiana applies an exemption to all citizens over age 70. I need not waste my time, nor theirs. they can dispense justice without me. It is one of the vagaries of the jury system that the very citizen that might be capable of an absolute unbiased verdict is also the one that neither side wants on the jury.
My critique of the jury system is much the same as Mark Twain's critique in his book, Roughing It. If you were a criminal defendant, would you trust your freedom to twelve people too stupid to get out of jury duty?
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"Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app."Well, there's nothing creeptastic about that at all.
Two Second Amendment cases have been heard by the Supreme Court this last year. The opinions of the Supreme Court in those two cases are expected to be announced before the end of June, 2026. The two cases are the Wolford case, out of Hawaii in the Ninth Circuit, and the Hemani Case out of Texas in the Fifth Circuit.
Wolford is essentially a question of whether a state can define "sensitive" locations so broadly as to prevent people from being armed in most public places. Specifically Wolford asks if Hawaii has the authority to command property owners to actively choose to allow private carry on their property or the State will ban private carry on their property. The Hemani case is a fairly straightforward question: Can the government strip people of their Second Amendment rights if they are users of a substance (marijuana) which the government has deemed to be illegal, even if they are not carrying arms while impaired?
Both cases carry the potential for further clarification of the standard set forth in the Bruen decision on how courts are to decide Second Amendment issues. The Bruen decision was straightforward. If the case involved an infringement of Second Amendment rights, as provided by the text of the Second Amendment, the burden of showing such limitations was on the government. The government had to show there was a longstanding tradition of such limitations going back to the time period of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. To a lesser extent, some clarification might be drawn from statutes passed about the time of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Any legislative activity beyond about 1875, at latest, was considered irrelevant. If the government could show a longstanding tradition, then it was shown such a limitation was considered understood as part of the right to keep and bear arms at the time of the ratification of the Bill of Rights.
In the Rahimi decision, the Supreme Court appeared to loosen the restrictions a bit. The decision allowed laws from the time of the ratification, which had a loose connection to the statute in question, to meet the Bruen test if the essential intent were the same. Both Wolford and Hemani present cases to the Supreme Court which could be used to narrow or broaden how lower courts interpret Bruen as seen through the lens of Rahimi.
The Supreme Court only hears about 70 cases in one year. Thousands of cases apply to be heard by the Court. In addition to the 70 or so cases heard on the merits, the Supreme Court has been burdened by numerous lawsuits against the Trump administration. These cases have taken much time of the Court as they react to frivolous challenges to Trump administrative decisions. The Supreme Court has issued at least 35 emergency orders as related to Trump administrative actions. The more "emergency" actions, the less time to spend on cases on the merits. The vast majority of these cases have been decided in the favor of the Trump administration.
Both the Wolford and Hemani decisions will be released by the end of June of 2026.
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A 45-year-old man was shot and injured after allegedly breaking into a west Fort Worth home early Saturday, police said. Multiple Forth Worth Police units responded to the 4900 block of Cedar Hill Road about 4:35 a.m. after a 911 caller reported someone was inside their house, the call sheet states.
Last month I spent 17 days traveling through Central and Eastern Europe (articles about my experiences forthcoming). I spent one of those days touring the Auschwitz and Birkenau WWII concentration/extermination camps. It was a moving experience that I highly recommend. Before visiting the camps, I chose to re-read Man’s Search for Meaning by […]
HPD said that the homeowner called his neighbor to alert him of the burglary. That neighbor then got his brother and confronted the burglary suspects.
Lt. Crowson said the suspects ran down the street and that the two men followed them in a vehicle.
Crowson said that, down the street, after a confrontation with the suspects, one of the two men shot one of the suspects.
HPD previously reported that the suspect was able to jump a fence while wounded, but that he ultimately died at the scene.
At one point, police allege Lockridge got behind the counter and started swinging the machete at the clerk.
The clerk was able to leave the store and get a gun from his vehicle.
Authorities say Lockridge initially followed him outside but then went back inside the store.
When the clerk went back inside, Lockridge reportedly tried to attack him with the machete.
That's when police say the clerk shot Lockridge and called 911.
- The goons who keep an eye on the crews of the "shadow fleet" tankers that are the Russian economy's increasingly tenuous financial lifeline.
- The paid influencers who hype Polymarket to the rubes.
- Pokémon Go location data sold for use in training military drones. No wonder people are starting to hate everything about Big Tech.
6/3/26 DW:
A hotel in the southern German state of Bavaria came under heavy criticism for a message refusing a reservation to an Israeli guest that included a message reminiscent of the Nazi era.
The case came to light when Israel's consul general to southern Germany, Talya Lador, posted the rejection message on X.
"Have we returned to the 1930s?" Lador wrote in German.
A screenshot in her post shows an English-language message from the Hotel zum Hirschen in Bavaria telling the recipient that "there are no Jews allowed in our hotel."
Brown said the individual reported being approached by two people in masks. That encounter led to gunfire. Investigators have recovered a firearm and said the suspected shooter was cooperating with the investigation.
At this point, investigators believe the person who was shot was one of the masked individuals, according to Brown.
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Dad Joke: If a cow doesn't produce milk, is it a Milk Dud?
Mom Joke (Courtesy of The Queen Of The World): No, it's just lactose-free.