H/t archeobloglink who comments:
The two main reasons cited for this problem of declining effects are publication bias and selective reporting. The former is (or ought to be) well known, while the latter seems to be very much related to the former: you’ll never get — or keep — a job if you don’t get things published and since publishers only like positive data, well. . . . . That leads into grant money as well. There is really little chance a proposal will get funded if it seeks to show “nothing” and unfunded projects don’t get published. True, many of these problems can be mitigated by extremely rigorous study designs, but you still have problems because you’re dealing with correlation vs causation: in most of these studies you simply can’t, either realistically or ethically, treat subjects to the kind of controls necessary to really demonstrate causation------------------------------------------
also via Arcehoblog:
An Ancient Civilization, Upended by Climate Change
The article is actually just a polemic to emphasize why we need to obey our global warming masters, because it says that the fall of Harappa gave them "proof" that climate change could affect civilizations. Duh. Ask the Chinese, the Greenland Vikings, or even check the Bible about famines changing civilizations.
The real question is why Harappa fell (and the first kingdom of Egypt fell about the same time). what caused the "climate change"? Over irrigation, too many SUV's, solar cycles, volcano eruptions?
and while you're at it, maybe ask what caused the Bronze age collapse?
------------------------------------------
It's over my head, but Spengler writes about the European economic crisis.
--------------------------------------
why you need to read the UK gutter press:
WTF:UK Mail reports on Secret space mission
(via Drudge)
UK Guardian reports on those protesting the Bilderbergs (no press allowed inside).
more here
The 'party line' quote that has been doing the rounds this year is from Robert Kagan, who's a Romney advisor, arch neo-con, and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century. Of Bilderberg, he says:oh well: We can always find our news at Coast to Coast:
"With all due respect … it's a lot of vaguely uninteresting people giving vaguely uninteresting lectures and then having nice meals in nice places."
Well, with all due respect Robert, not only is Chantilly, Virginia, not a 'nice place' (it's really, properly ghastly – a tarmac dystopia, an arms company Mecca), but maybe not everyone finds the attendees of Bilderberg "vaguely uninteresting". They might find it "interesting" that the chairman, vice-chairman, and CEO of Shell are meeting up, for a three-day conference, with the chairman of Barclays, the White House national security advisor, the head of the NSA, the head of HSBC, the Chancellor of Austria, the Lord Chancellor of Britain, the governor of Indiana, the CEO of Unilever, the director-general of the World Trade Organization, the president of the World Bank and the head of the Dow Chemical Group.
Who has to show up before Kagan finds it noteworthy…? Kermit the Frog? Rihanna? George Washington? The cast of Ghostbusters? What if Henry Kissinger promised to give the CEO of Airbus a lapdance?
No comments:
Post a Comment