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The AP seems to be the most unbiased and complete account of the events in Wisconsin so far: https://apnews.com/0cbc14762c89304f9f052fd33a1f4445 National Guard called out after police shoot black man Far better than watching a short video clip and immediately deciding what the truth must be. They pr...

Lastly, it seems that others, including international scientists, have noticed what's happening in science too and are disturbed. https://quillette.com/2020/08/21/international-scholars-must-resist-the-american-campaign-to-inject-racial-tribalism-into-science/ ...The racialization of discourses, a p...

Seattle may not have been unique: https://reason.com/2020/08/14/uconn-will-pay-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelo-20000-to-train-school-administrators/ The antiracism consultant Robin DiAngelo is having quite the summer. Her 2018 book, White Fragility, shot to the top of the New York Times bestse...

I've been interested in Portland's protests and riots because I know people in the area (and despite being liberal, they're pretty outraged that Portland's mayor wasn't doing anything about the destruction. The elk statue, among other things, seemed to be loved by Portlanders.). Now, from a paper in...

https://reason.com/2020/08/10/americans-are-growing-less-willing-to-beg-for-permission-to-make-a-living/ Americans Are Growing Less Willing To Beg for Permission To Make a Living Officials claim doing business is a revocable “privilege,” but many Americans see it as a right that they’ll exercise wi...

And from Team NOT Reality, we have this nonsense: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-response-testing-lockdown.html Countered by some sensible information from another news source: https://reason.com/2020/08/10/without-much-more-aggressive-shutdowns-the-new-york-times-warn...

Finally. One of the first signs some of the media is starting to join Team Reality. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/coronavirus-will-never-go-away/614860/ The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world No kiddi...

At this point, I'm so completely fed up with the media and their selective reporting, both left and right. And their elevated opinion of themselves. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/fact-check-jonathan-swan-axios-hbo-interview-trump-coronavirus/index.html Jonathan Swan reveals the simple secr...

At least this harms no one: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/30/seattle-has-fallen-to-woke-racism/ Seattle's Office of Civil Rights has developed a "race and social justice" curriculum for all 10,000 city employees....I've obtained new documents from the city's segregated "whites...

And here's some interesting news: https://www.foxnews.com/media/pa-hospitals-use-weighted-lottery-to-distribute-lifesaving-remdesivir-in-favor-of-low-income-patients Pennsylvania uses 'weighted lottery' to distribute lifesaving remdesivir in favor of low-income patients South Carolina doctor says th...

Given how they’ve acted so far, it seems likely that Google, YouTube, etc. will be redirecting searches to “approved” pro-vaccine messages once one is approved for COVID-19 in the U.S. Details of the planned messaging/ advertising campaigns and the various ways groups plan to influence people (I as...

I hope one of the biggest issues society looks at, in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, is the effect of propaganda and censorship on figuring out the best public policies in the face of scientific uncertainty. And of this propaganda and censorship influencing the analysis of where governme...

Well, here's a major screw-up. In case you haven't heard: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/499085-cdc-acknowledges-mixing-up-coronavirus-testing-data The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledged Thursday that it is combining the results from viral and antibody COVID-19 test...

More directly related to echo chambers. https://quillette.com/2020/07/14/the-defenestration-of-bari-weiss/ The Defenestration of Bari Weiss written by Brian Stewart In London’s Hyde Park, the famous Speakers’ Corner stands as a tribute to the victory of John Stuart Mill, the most prominent thinker i...

Related matters - gain of function studies and should they be funded, also whether it's a good idea to be funding labs in China that have a poor track record for biosecurity. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate-34502 Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate Th...

btw, I have to say I didn't think much of Fauci's claim to Congress that he's just a medical adviser and everyone else has to figure out the rest. Nope, sorry. If you're acting as a public health official and giving advice the media hangs on and treats as gospel, that's part of your job, deciding ho...

The full George Floyd transcripts: https://www.twincities.com/2020/07/09/george-floyd-transcript-read-it-in-full-here/ I found it pretty interesting to read them and then read what the Washington Post and New York Times wants you to think about them. It's pretty obvious from the transcripts that Flo...

While I'm here, a different perspective on John Bolton's book on Trump: https://quillette.com/2020/06/30/the-room-where-it-happened-a-review/ Several books have already sought to illuminate the malign zaniness of the Trump White House. Journalist Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury arrived in January 2018...

Couldn't resist posting this. Massey College caught my eye, as a fan of Robertson Davies. He never struck me as someone who would have caved to the woke mob. I wonder what he would have had to say? https://quillette.com/2020/07/09/it-wasnt-my-cancelation-that-bothered-me-it-was-the-cowardice-of-thos...

This made me angry enough to post it here. Apparently this part editorial/ part book promotion was originally posted on Forbes (supposedly you can still get copies of it via the wayback machine). But it seems someone was so threatened by it that they pressured Forbes into taking it down. They haven'...