Apparently Peter and his buddy Gary Taubes just love themselves some crappy pseudoscience. Both of them are funded by the Arnold Foundation, with substantial ties to animal agriculture industry lobbying. Marion Nestle notes the Arnold’s working relationship with a National Restaurant Association and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association consultant. So let’s go over the bogus arguments in this…
Useless Idiots
Stories about people who are useless to society.
UFC Fight: Why Nate Diaz Beat Champion Conor McGregor
by Michael Suede •
What a great Saturday night! I setup my giant 120″ projector screen in my friend’s yard and we invited a pile of people over to watch the Diaz v. McGregor fight on pay per view. I swear it’s better than actually being there. What I didn’t know until recently is that McGregor got his butt kicked by a…
Dr Walter Palmer’s Life Destroyed By Social Media
by Michael Suede •
Dr Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minneapolis, is the clown who shot the now famous lion named Cecil during a botched hunting expedition. Everyone from Jimmy Kimmel to Cara Delevinge has taken pot shots at the doctor in the media. The doctor has basically been run out of his practice. His business’s social media accounts have…
How Low Carb Diet Doctors Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes
by Michael Suede •
It all starts with the absurd diet recommendations put out by people like the CDC or the USDA and HHS. These diet recommendations tell people to consume up to 35% of their diet from fat and up to 35% of their diet from protein. Given that these recommended levels are what Americans have been consuming for decades,…
Cato Institute Scholar: NSA Spying Is Good For You
by Michael Suede •
In a recent Chicago Tribune article, Roger Pilon, the VP for legal affairs at the Cato Institute and director of Cato’s Center for Constitutional Studies, had this to say about NSA surveillance: Yes, government officials might conceivably misuse some of the trillions of bits of metadata they examine using sophisticated algorithms. But one abuse is no pattern…
Feminist Bullies Tearing Video Game Industry Apart
by Michael Suede •
Epic piece by Milo Yiannopoulos on Breitbart’s London site. Apparently some of the female feminists have been offering sex to various games journalists in order to get coverage for their cause, along with using threats, intimidation, lies and a host of other nefarious means. Here’s a snippet: Instead of addressing allegations of corruption, examining their…
Women, Trick Your Husbands Into Having Kids
by Michael Suede •
For those of you who work during the day, here’s the kind of programming you’ve been missing:
“Programming” – as in writing a computer “program” or completing a prison “program.” There’s a reason why television shows and computer code share the same lingo.
hat tip to Chris at Information Liberation
Sunday Humor: Obama’s Stance On Whistle-blowers Scrubbed From The Web
by Michael Suede •
From the way-back machine: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need…
Nunes On BIS Report: This Banking Report “Reeks of Austrianism!”
by Michael Suede •
Oh how history doth repeat itself. As it turns out, not all international bankers are complete psychopathic loons. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has come forward with a report that recognizes the extreme risk that zero interest rate policies and unchecked debt pose to the global economy. Unfortunately, its a bit late and a…
The Question Libertarians Supposedly Can’t Answer
by Michael Suede •
“If your approach is so great, why hasn’t any country anywhere in the world ever tried it?” writes Michael Lind of Salon.com. Supposedly this is the great impossible question which entirely refutes the efficacy of a free and voluntary organization of society. Lind argues in his article that, since no nation has ever tried it, it…