HMM: Do Anxiety Pills Have a Dark Side? Research Reveals Dementia Risks. From reading the article, though, it seems that — as I have suspected for a while — the anxiety is associated with dementia, and the use of benzodiazepenes is more of a marker for anxiety than a cause. I suspect the same is true of Benadryl, which has shown a similar association with dementia, since lots of people use Benadryl as an OTC anxiety/sleep med.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 11, 2024
QUESTIONING THE INEVITABILITY of the NextGen Bar Examination.
IT’S ALL ABOUT WHO HE REGARDS AS A THREAT TO HIS POWER:
Let me get this straight:
Keir Starmer is releasing violent criminals from prison just to replace them with people who commit thought crimes on @X.
And he is spending police resources investigating and going after people for retweets and Facebook posts when there is a shitload…
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 10, 2024
NO, NEXT QUESTION: QOTD: Do You Want Fake Exhausts?
SCIENCE: The abstemious scientists accused of using ‘flawed’ research to tell you to stop drinking.
Dr Tim Stockwell’s work – which has been published in The Lancet, among other esteemed organs – has inspired a new crackdown on alcohol that has seen daily drinking guidelines slashed in Canada and Australia. The US may next year follow suit, and the UK anti-alcohol lobby is using Dr Stockwell’s work as it warms up for a similar fight.
But many of Dr Stockwell’s respected peers say it is far from settled science and have cast doubt on his research. They question his motives and accuse him of being a front for a worldwide temperance lobby that is secretly attempting to ban alcohol.
Plus:
The research was widely reported without a hint of the row it had triggered in the scientific community. In common with other news outlets, The Daily Mail stated baldly that the longstanding belief that one or two drinks a day is good for you was based on “flawed” scientific research.
However, it was the final straw for many fellow academics and experts who told The Telegraph they read the report in disbelief, concluding it was yet another example of Dr Stockwell “cherry picking” the evidence to suit his agenda.
Former British government scientist Richard Harding, who gave evidence on safe drinking to the House of Commons select committee on science and technology in 2011, told The Telegraph that Dr Stockwell had wrongly taken a correlation to be causal.
“Dr Stockwell’s research is essentially epidemiology, which is the study of populations,” Dr Harding said. “You record people’s lifestyle and then see what diseases they get and try to correlate the disease with some aspect of their lifestyle. But it is just a correlation, it’s just an association. Epidemiology can never establish causality on its own.
“And in this particular case, Dr Stockwell selected six studies out of 107 to focus on. You could say he cherry picked them.”
Seems like the vegetarians have been running something like this for years.
WHEN EVEN THE CHAPLAIN IS DENOUNCING YOU. . . Chaplain of Tim Walz’s National Guard battalion calls VP pick ‘cowardly’ for abandoning unit.
DAVID BARON CALL YOUR OFFICE: How invasion of enormous wild beasts has left shocked residents in idyllic Wyoming mountain towns fearing for their lives: ‘I do a lot of praying.’
Pray for bearskin rugs.
REMINDER:
"Far right" is a synonym for "poor".https://t.co/wve62gOTdQ
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 10, 2024
WHY WOULD TAXPAYERS WANT TO SUBSIDIZE INSTITUTIONS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO HATE THEM? The rise of academic hate: Faculty have gone from professors to extremists.
JUSTICE FOR ASHLI: Justice Department ordered to answer for Jan. 6 killing of Ashli Babbitt.
No justice, no peace.
LOCK UP ANY OFFENDERS: Virginia Secretary of Education Warns Universities To Prepare For Anti-Israel Protests Amid Reports Campus Disruptions ‘Will Be Even More Chaotic.’ And expel any misbehaving students, while suing non-students for damages caused by their disruption.
Protest is protected; vandalism and violence aren’t.
LOL, CNN. #JOURNALISM: CNN’s Brianna Keilar Lectures CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Respecting JD Vance’s Military Service.
What’s impressive is that J.D. Vance got her to do a 180 with a single tweet.
UNBURDENED BY THE LACK OF INTEREST:
🚨 Kamala Harris is using black curtains to cover up empty seats at her rallies
Why is she doing this pic.twitter.com/Za16Vn83HX
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) August 10, 2024
August 10, 2024
SHE’S NEVER HAD AN ORIGINAL IDEA IN HER LIFE, SO WHY CHANGE NOW?
🚨 Breaking. Kamala Harris just stole Trumps " NO TAX on TIPS " Proposal
Everything about her is Fake! pic.twitter.com/eYRiT1Htnk
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) August 11, 2024
And to be fair, it’s worked pretty well for her.
OPEN THREAD: Be here now.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Commerce Department preparing to turn on initial version of space traffic coordination service.
IMPORTANT HEALTH NEWS: Women who regularly have sex are likely to live longer, according to a nationally representative study in the United States. “Even when accounting for education, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, female participants who claimed to have sex less than 52 times in a year were three times more likely to die from any cause over the five-year study period.”
WELL SAID:
I've never been more grateful that our forefathers crossed the Delaware on Christmas to kill British law enforcers. https://t.co/nqkVcYe24N
— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) August 8, 2024
NEWS FROM THE AMERICA THAT STILL WORKS: SpaceX launches 21 satellites from Florida; another one set Sunday.
BAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Infectious diseases spike when kids return to school − here’s what you can do about it.
HMM:
Explosions and fires in Kursk (city) https://t.co/GahCIRtPGp
— Malcontent News (@MalcontentmentT) August 10, 2024
HAHA:
