Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Trump is damaging America’s future wealth, health, and security by deeply damaging American science. Science research needs broad investments in things that may not be productive for decades to come. That often requires an investor not worried about quarterly returns. The US used to drain scientists from the world. Now, our scientists are being picked by other countries, weakening the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYiUI6y1nKg
Artificial sweeteners don’t appear to cause cognitive decline. In associative studies, there is an association, but in better studies, there is not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nkzjrouavs
When companies got rid of an old CEO and for the first time got a new one that had an MBA, wages fell. It looks like the ideology of the CEO matters. If the CEO believes in standard business school teachings that suggest businesses should lower wages if they can, then they do it, and people get paid less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6O20vKWZ_Q
Debunking Science Influencers’ Claims on IQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLp4ja9n8Y
Russ Vought is Destroying American Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxUgs4YVlOw
Overall, the scientific evidence finds that Medicaid does improve health. There was a literature that found this, then the Oregon study found that it didn’t! But then with the ACA, some people were randomly sent a reminder to sign up for Medicaid, and those that got the letter, signed up more, and they had better health outcomes. The Oregon study followed people for too short of time and the sample was too small.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp8JNHPP7MA&list=PLUl4u3cNGP62KS2YhlASvGBxxL8HgB11p&index=14
Space data centers may not make much sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6G7VEwNq0
When the Trump administration temporarily cuts certain science funding, some studies can’t just start up again. They require specialized people, equipment, and biological specimens, and those can’t just wait for funding to return. Our knowledge about the world, and the medical benefits some of this knowledge would have led to, have been hurt by these shortsighted actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCULe4p3-AQ
Being a heretic is hard. It’s easy to be irreverent and to go against currently favored theories, but it’s hard to do it well. You don’t get serious points by saying Einstein is wrong and then making some crappy argument against him, even if the argument is rhetorically strong. You get serious points for doing the theoretical and empirical homework that actually shows Einstein is wrong.
Time and energy in our finite lives are limited. If you want someone to take the time to read and understand your radical theory, you’ve got to do the homework to understand the currently favored theories and why they are favored. If you haven’t done the hard homework, then your theory is probably wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo
Human-caused climate change has been studied for many decades, and the common sense alternative explanations have already been studied and don’t explain the warming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHzO2t1-y9M