Friday, April 30, 2021

Cancer rates in medieval Britain around ten times higher than previously thought, study suggests

Retired con law prof Ann Althouse:

'So [banning method cigarettes is] a racial justice issue because there are racial justice issues on both sides, but the L.A. Times has decided that there's more racial justice in taking away what black people choose for themselves than in letting them decide. It's paternalism. And it's infantilism, because the editors won't credit black consumers with the power to make their own choices: the tobacco companies are pushing their product on "communities of color," so the choice is not real choice."

Via Althouse

"Many of us view the practice of pronoun declaration as asking us to sign on to an ideology we do not share: that we all have an internal gender identity..." "... which may or may not 'match' our sex, and that the third-person pronoun someone uses to describe us should reflect this identity rather than our sex.

"People call me 'she' because that is the third-person pronoun we generally use to describe female humans (and other animals), and I take that to mean nothing more than that they have correctly recognized me as female. However, announcing that 'my pronouns are she/her' would mean something very different: an indication that 'woman' represents my identity rather than simply my bodily reality; in other words, that I identify in some way with the social role of 'woman' or with stereotypical femininity (which I do not)."

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

An experimental COVID-19 vaccine could potentially provide universal protection against future COVID-19 variants as well as other coronaviruses -- maybe even the ones responsible for the common cold.

Reason

America's War on Pain Pills Is Killing Addicts and Leaving Patients in Agony

The government's efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous.

Heartland Institute

Two separate polls show U.S. adults are misinformed about COVID risks and the differences between perception vs. reality depend in large part on age, and political preference.

An overwhelming percentage of black people believe local police departments are doing a good job, polling shows.

Democrats admit Court-packing is dead

Vast Majority of Workers Want to Stay Put in Home Office

A far-left extremist using an online moniker to advocate for targeted killings of law enforcement has been revealed to be the student body president of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Vox/James Carville on the state of Democratic politics:

Pat Buchanan:

The DC Statehood Power Grab

LAPD Officer Asks LeBron James to ‘Sit Down and Talk’ About ‘Reality’ of Policing Profession

Officer Deon Joseph: “You are tired of Black folks dying? So am I. You hate racism and police brutality? So do I.”