JOHN HAWKINS: Tony Robbins Is Right About the #Metoo Movement (And It’s Not for the Reason You Think).

PERSONALLY, I’D RATHER DO THAT THAN TAKE A PILL: “When it comes to lowering high blood pressure, exercising is pretty much the last thing people want to do, a new survey shows.” Hey, I was 116/82 last week, though with my genes I’ll probably be on the medicine one day.

VA HOSPITALS:   More privatizing could only help.

WHEN AMERICA WAS AMERICA: The Time WWII Soldiers Used a Grenade Launcher To Go Fishing.

TODAY IS CHRIS KYLE’S BIRTHDAY: Here Are Some of the American Sniper’s Best Moments.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: TB Treatment May Leave Some Patients Contagious.

I’M SENSING A PATTERN HERE:

● “Great Read” Says Twitter’s CEO About Article Advocating Eradication of the Right.

● Twitter Not Too Concerned About Death Threats Against Republican, Apparently.

● Did Twitter Shadow Ban Ted Cruz?

HMM: Brain Activity Has Been Recorded as Much as 10 Minutes After Death.

THIS WILL END WELL: The brave new age of gender-neutral kids. “Most kids like a bit of structure in their lives, especially, I imagine, on the existential question of whether they’re a boy or a girl. It seems like a lot to ask them to sort it out for themselves. Is it really fair to make your kid the subject of a social experiment, no matter how righteous you think it is? And do you really think they’ll thank you for it? I have my doubts.”

Indeed.™

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: The #BlackLivesMatter Angle in Lesbian Couple’s Murder-Suicide Mystery.

ANDREW KLAVAN: ON KEVIN WILLIAMSON, THE ATLANTIC HAS NO EXCUSE.

There is only one reason to silence someone like Kevin: your arguments are so bad you can’t stand up to him in a fair debate.

On top of which, hiring a man away from his job, then firing him for being exactly who you knew he was is simply a skunk thing to do. Shame on [Atlantic editor Jeffrey] Goldberg, really.

In today’s political debate, there are two kinds of people: those who want to silence the voices they disagree with, and the good guys. Kevin Williamson is one of the good guys. Goldberg, it turns out, not so much.

Read the whole thing.

INSIDE THE WORST U.S. MARITIME DISASTER IN DECADES: A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed El Faro, a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane.

I REMEMBER WHEN LOYALTY OATHS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BAD: Emporia State students demand profs add ‘diversity statement’ to syllabi. “The demand comes in response to a black student allegedly having to listen to a professor read black poet Sonia Sanchez’s ‘On Watching a World Series Game,’ which contains multiple instances of the N-word.”

SCIENCE: “How do you get so many highly-cited papers speaking so confidently about every little sub-sub-detail of a phenomenon, if the phenomenon never existed in the first place?” Plus: “We know many scientific studies are false. But we usually find this out one-at-a-time. This – again, assuming the new study is true, which it might not be – is a massacre. It offers an unusually good chance for reflection.”

Science is a process, not an event, and being wrong about things is part of the process. And over-enthusiasm is part of being human, and scientists are human. But the desire to turn research into immediate recommendations on how people should live, while also human, isn’t the least bit scientific.

And the replication crisis is a real thing:

But the reason I feel compelled to dabble in this subject anyway is that I don’t feel like anyone else is conveying the level of absolute terror we should be feeling right now. As far as I can tell, this is the most troubling outbreak of the replication crisis so far. And it didn’t happen in a field like social psychology which everyone already knows is kind of iffy. It happened in neuroscience, with dramatic knock-on effects on medicine, psychology, and psychiatry.

I feel like every couple of months we get a result that could best be summed up as “no matter how bad you thought things were, they’re actually worse”. And then things turn out to be even worse than that. We can’t just become 100% certain things are arbitrarily bad – that would be making the same mistake as the neuroscientists who were overly eager to reject the no-neurogenesis dogma. But that means we always have to be ready for disappointment.

Troubling.

SCOTT JOHNSON: What Is The FBI Hiding (2).

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: University scrambles to reform after 2 free speech lawsuits.

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DUMB POLICY: The crusade against JUUL and other vaping products is childish, even for tobacco control.

LONDON DIDN’T USED TO BE LIKE THIS: Scotland Yard admits it has run out of detectives to investigate murders and gang crimes in the capital.

Flashback: Why have the white British left London? The stabbings and acid attacks add vibrancy!

WHY THE FBI IS DODGING NUNES. It is “concealing the depth” of Obama Administration election interference.

ABSOLUTE MORAL AUTHORITY: The Grieving Father Leading The Fight To Repeal California’s Sanctuary State Law.

SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT RATIFIED ON THIS DAY IN 1913: Up until that point, state legislatures decided who would be a U.S. Senator. The 17^th Amendment made it a matter for popular election. Was this the death knell of state power in Washington? Did it mean that federalism was doomed? Or were democratic elections for Senators an improvement on the backroom deals that had produced the Senate in an earlier era? I report. You decide. All I can say is that it’s rather unlikely the country will ever go back.

AM I OVERLY SUSPICIOUS WHEN I SUSPECT THAT “ELIMINATING TOXIC ADS” MEANS “JIGGERING THINGS TO HURT REPUBLICANS?” Facebook To Tighten Grip On Political Ads, As Zuckerberg Heads To Hill.