THINK OF THE PRESS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OPERATION AIMED AT NORMAL AMERICANS AND EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE: It’s Just Nuts To Praise New York’s “Success” Against Coronavirus.
Archive for 2020
July 15, 2020
DECOUPLE FASTER: Boris Johnson fails to stave off Huawei rebellion as Tory MPs call for tougher measures. “Rebels to table series of amendments when legislation comes to Parliament in the autumn as they seek more concessions.”
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF VIOLENCE? 86 Percent of Shootings in Oakland Go Unreported, Police Say.
Oakland’s last Republican mayor left office in 1977.
NO MORE THAN THE OLD GREY WHORE DESERVES: A journalist blasts the New York Times in resignation letter.
ONLY IF THEY’RE PAYING ATTENTION! Will Black Americans Ditch the Democratic Party?
THE FUN PART IS THEY DON’T SEEM TO REALIZE AT THE END OF THIS THERE’S NO TEACHERS’ UNION… VOLITIONAL BLINDNESS IS AN INTERESTING PHENOMENON: Los Angeles Teachers Union Takes Children Hostage.
IF YOU CAN’T TRUST APPLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY, WHO CAN YOU TRUST? NEXT THING YOU’LL BE CLAIMING THE US GOVERNMENT CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH PRIVATE INFORMATION: Covering up your camera could damage your laptop: Apple.
SURE. LIKE THAT MAKES LEVIN THE LONE RANGER: Former Wikipedia editor says website engaged in multiyear smear campaign against Mark Levin.
THEY’RE NO LONGER BLACK. WRONGTHINK, AS WE KNOW, CAUSES RACE CHANGE: New York City black activists call on de Blasio and City Council to ‘take your handcuffs off of the police’.
Also, they’re using logic and sense, which the press and the left (But I repeat myself!) assure me are tools of white supremacy.
PRO TIP: ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES OF REDUCED SEATING, IF YOU MAKE RESERVATIONS SHOW THE EFF UP: Michelin starred chef goes viral after passionately complaining about ‘the worst kind of guest’.
SHEESH – DOES SHE IMAGINE SHE LEADS A CITY OF CHILDREN? Chicago mayor deploys ‘Census Cowboy’ to boost participation, in bizarre scene: ‘Time to giddy-up’.
BUT OF COURSE: Mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus detected in NYC.
July 14, 2020
Internationally peer-reviewed journals published more than 100 scientific research papers from China-based authors that appear to have reused identical sets of images, raising questions about the proliferation of problematic science as institutions fast-track research during the coronavirus pandemic.
The cache of 121 papers, credited to researchers from hospitals and medical universities across roughly 50 cities in China, all shared at least one image with another—a sign that many were likely produced by the same company or “paper mill,” said Elisabeth Bik, a California-based microbiologist and image-analysis expert who identified the trove.
Though the reports were published by different authors over a four-year period, many included identical snapshots of cell colonies—sometimes rotated or cropped to appear unique—despite focusing on different research topics. Phrases in figure captions were also repeated verbatim across the collection of reports.
Still, the apparently fraudulent research made it past the scientific peer-review process at six international journals, with the European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences alone publishing 113 of the 121 papers.
One of the questionable reports was subsequently cited by other researchers more than 50 times since 2017, according to Google Scholar, while three others received more than 20 citations—suggesting the impact that the problematic papers could have on other research.
Such paper mill productions are “polluting the scientific body of work,” said Dr. Bik, a former researcher at the Stanford School of Medicine who quit her job at a medical startup last year to investigate research misconduct full-time. “I’m worried they might be the tip of the iceberg.”
Don’t trust China. China is asshole.
OPEN THREAD: You can’t break the rules til you know how to play the game, but if you just want to have a little fun, you can mention my name.
CANCEL CULTURE CLAIMS ANOTHER SCALP: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Curator Resigns After He Is Accused of Racism for Saying He Would Still Collect Art From White Men.
In a statement announcing his decision to step down, [Gary] Garrels apologized for the harm his words caused, only slightly disputing the absurd charge against him. “I do not believe I have ever said that it is important to collect the art of white men,” he said, according to artnet.com. “I have said that it is important that we do not exclude consideration of the art of white men.”
Suffice it to say that this is not the language of a white supremacist. Those who say otherwise—that Garrels is guilty of racism—have stripped the word of its potency. They have shown once again that the signatories of the recent Harper‘s letter were entirely correct that the progressive drive to purge lofty institutions of racism and sexism has frequently gone astray, in a manner that threatens both free inquiry and common decency. The 1793 Project continues.
As Ace writes, in 2020 San Francisco, “‘White supremacy’ means describing efforts to diversify the artists collected, but reassuring people that ‘white artists will also still be collected’ because to completely ban white artists from the museum would be ‘reverse discrimination.’ That is now ‘white supremacy’ requiring a forced resignation.”
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Space hospitality startup to establish training complex.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Stanley Kurtz on Taking Back the Academy.
I WAS TOLD THIS WAS JUST ABOUT CONFEDERATE GENERALS: Catholic Churches Across The Country Burned, Vandalized Over The Weekend.
DID THE TIMES PRINT AN URBAN LEGEND?
This week, the Times brings us a story from Methodist Hospital in San Antonio. The headline is: “Texas Hospital Says Man, 30, Died After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’” and what we get is a story with one source.
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But, as I read the story originally earlier this week, I realized the details didn’t quite add up. If you believe COVID is a hoax, why would you attend a “Covid Party?” And, in a pandemic for an airborne disease, aren’t all parties potentially COVID parties? Chicken pox parties were aimed at spreading a local infection purposely to younger children who have milder cases. People don’t hold them because they are skeptics. Something doesn’t make sense.
A closer look showed that not only were there no names named, but there was no date or location of the party and no other sources about where and whether it happened. And then there was the curious fact that a dying man’s self-incriminating final words were relayed to the press. Who gave permission for that?
But if you click on the article link now, as I write this, you will find a few paragraphs of hedging added in:
The Times could not independently verify Dr. Appleby’s account. On Monday, the San Antonio health department said its contact tracers did not have any information “that would confirm (or deny)” that such an event had happened there.
In recent days, the hospital distributed video of Dr. Appleby describing the case , along with a press statement. She did not say when or where the party took place, how many people attended or how long afterward the man was hospitalized with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. She said she was sharing the story to warn others, especially in Texas, where cases are surging.
These paragraphs were added long after publication. They also indicate where the story originated. The young junior reporter who wrote it isn’t in Texas but sitting at a desk, presumably at home. There is also another additional paragraph saying that the Times tried several times, through the hospital, to contact the dead man’s family.
Read the whole thing.