Lone Candle
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The president of the United States rambled falsities about important health science. Not good. Bad.
I’m all for a serious evidence-based discussion on the risks and benefits of different medications, but the nation’s leader ad libbing bullshit is not helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf2MdntsF0
Cane sugar isn’t any healthier than high fructose cane sugar. This has been studied really well, and the evidence is clear.
Diet soda is far far better for you than sugar soda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Rl4cl2LVw
Deaths from people dying directly from a natural disaster are down, but long-term indirect deaths are not. Many people die from the variety of long-term effects of natural disasters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsToZlTBeGc
Co-author of study linking Tylenol to autism says pain reliever still an option
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/22/pregnant-women-can-still-use-tylenol-judiciously-says-researcher-00575788
Scientists could not find a way to explain the position of certain minerals on Mars other than by life. But, scientists have been wrong about Mars before, and they may just not know about the non-life mechanisms for creating these patterns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0GQ4okpaY
The Reports of UBI’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/the-reports-of-ubis-death-are-greatly
What Evolution Really Tells Us About Life | A Conversation with Steven Pinker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvwGhlBI1hA
“The nation’s top public health agency was left reeling Thursday as the White House worked to expel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and replace her with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘s current deputy.
The turmoil triggered rare bipartisan alarm as Kennedy tries to advance anti-vaccine policies that are contradicted by decades of scientific research.
Two administration officials said Jim O’Neill, the second-in-command at the Department of Health and Human Services, would supplant Susan Monarez, a longtime government scientist. O’Neill, a former investment executive who also served at the federal health department under President George W. Bush, does not have a medical background.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/departing-cdc-officials-monarezs-firing-161134622.html
Trump damaging the CDC, which is losing key employees due to the administration not understanding scientific evidence.
Some Israeli military units are exhausted and not showing up for the new invasion of Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtLQNCgagQ
“The administration’s attempts to paint all university faculty as woke are misguided. Many leading scientists and scholars have continued to push the boundaries of knowledge while either ignoring ongoing culture wars or avoiding administrative activists on their campuses. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is never a good idea, nor is schadenfreude worth risking the future of knowledge. The proper way to fight one form of intolerance is not to impose your own brand of intolerance.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/14/americas-two-front-war-on-science/