Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE — WHEN IT’S NOT BOGUS, WHICH IS SELDOM, APPARENTLY:

Flashback: We’re told to ‘follow the science’ — yet some of it is just plain wrong.

EVEN THE NY TIMES ISN’T BUYING ANTI-AC HYSTERIA: It’s Actually Okay to Run the AC All Day (Even If You’re Not Home). “To our surprise, all three apartments ended up using more energy when the AC was turned off than when we left it running all day. The first-floor unit, with the 18,000-BTU heat pump, used 7 kWh of energy on the day we turned off the AC, and it used only 4 kWh when we left it running.”

OPEN THREAD: I know you’re out there, with rage in your eyes and your megaphones.

IT’S NOT JUST THE WORLD CUP: The Decline of Germany: Football humiliation isn’t the only kind. “The refugee crisis of 2015-2016 ‘transformed’ politics within the country, according to Hans Kundnani, a senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, who told Newsweek that the AfD’s continued rise points to ‘massive backlash against non-white immigration.'”

ANDY NGO: BREAKING: North Texas Antifa Members Who Turned on Their Comrades Receive Years in Federal Prison. “Seven more convicted members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell were sentenced Wednesday in federal court, less than two weeks after one of the convicts allegedly attempted to kill herself while in custody. U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor handed down the sentences in Fort Worth following last week’s 450-year prison sentence, a historic punishment of the Antifa group’s first batch of trial defendants.”