Links for you. Science:
That height study: bad science, bad reporting, both – or neither?
The giant ancient forest you cannot see
An ugly summer for science: Turmoil rocks Canadian research community
Verification of an automated, digital dispensing platform for at-will broth microdilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing
The health benefits of stretching have been massively oversold
Other:
So Do We Invite Republicans To ‘Come On Over’? (excellent)
Gary Johnson is Worse than Donald Trump
Raising the minimum wage could improve public health (my take here)
The Original Underclass
Welcome to Donald Trump’s America
I think Clinton may win in a blowout, and then her problems will really begin
The Last Convention
The Miseries of Eviction: An Interview With Matthew Desmond
Then They’ll Get Older, Have Kids, And Move To The Suburbs
Planned Parenthood Will Start Registering Voters At Its Clinics
The 2016 Race Is Not Over
CIA Director Entry Number 2: Mike Morell, Fabulist
In Missouri, Ferguson Is Still Burning: The four GOP candidates for governor are betting anger over the 2-year-old riots will carry one of them into office
Somehow Hillary Clinton Made the E-mail Mess Even Worse Today
Are You Ready for the End of the Republican Party?
No Right Turn
Intellectuals are Freaks
mikethemadbiologist
Re Morell
Mr. Putin is a great leader, Mr. Trump says, ignoring that he has killed and jailed journalists and political opponents, has invaded two of his neighbors and is driving his economy to ruin.
Heck, he’s a piker.
George W. Bush invaded two countries on the other side of the world, managed to start wars that have gone on for, what, 13 years and show no sign of ending, destabilized much of the Middle East, created his own religious terrorist group, ISIS and probably more, made the USA a byword for torture and illegal detention.
And, of course, by the standards of most of the rest of the world managed to carry out any number of war crimes. Putin is small time by these standards
Bravo George.
Morell is no a fabulist, the entire US foreign policy establishment are delusional.
Intellectuals are freaks
One was the nonprofit sector — the university and the nonprofit think tank — founded chiefly by gifts from the tycoons who lent these institutions their names: Stanford University, the Ford Foundation.
Given this appalling level of historical knowledge I stopped reading his drivel. Intellectuals may be freaks but he is an ignoramus or so limited by a world-view that does not extend outside the USA as to make his pronouncements rather embarrassing to listen to.