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Cartoonist Scott Adams admitted the other day that the "anti-vaxxers"--meaning people who didn't want an experimental COVID shot--had "won." Like Emily "we were all in the dark" Oster , he chalked up his loss to bad luck instead of his own bad judgment.  I would like to publicly apologize for continuously ignoring the "accurate data" on Covid that people sent me for three years. But just so I don't make that mistake again, is there a separate list of the strangers I should trust to know which data is the good stuff? — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 24, 2023   Sorry, Scott, but there's no substitute for doing your own research using primary sources and learning how to read those sources. It's like the first three rules from Joel Greenblatt's book You can be a Stock Market Genius : Do your own work. Don't trust anyone over 30. Don't trust anyone 30 or under.  Get it? Sinking your fortune or your health into somet...

The current-thing people who want to ban gas stoves have convinced me: I'm getting rid of my stove. I've hated it since I moved here, but thought I'd wait until it wore out before I replaced it. But thanks to the current-thing crowd, I've just put in an order for this baby: Yes, those are gas burners. Photo from Home Depot. I'm going with a basic model, not the automatic. Internet meme. The last time I bought a stove , it was second-hand. But when I shopped for one yesterday, I only found two gas stoves in white, and one of them looked like it was made about the time Julia Child was on TV. But second-hand stores were full of detestable glass-top electric stoves like the one I'm getting rid of. The one I just bought is back-ordered for a month. I'm not worried about getting asthma. For one thing, I cooked on a gas stove for 19 years and didn't get asthma. Before that, I was a prep cook and didn't get asthma (restaurants use gas). Heck, I worked on a l...

Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise, recently wrote about a food scoring system called "The Food Compass" published in Nature Food . The authors, from Tufts University, "have led the development of the White House Conference [on Hunger, Nutrition and Health] slated for sometime in September."  The Food Compass, which gives top ratings to Cheerios, Lucky Charms and Cocoa Puffs, is absurd on the face of it. In all, nearly 70 brand-named cereals from General Mills, Kellogg’s, and Post are ranked twice as high as eggs cooked in butter or a piece of plain, whole-wheat toast. Egg whites cooked in vegetable oils are also apparently more healthy than a whole, boiled egg, and nearly all foods are healthier than ground beef. How do sugary breakfast cereals rank higher than eggs, butter, or even plain toast? Follow the money--as always. This isn't news for long-time readers; the US government has recommended crap diets for decades. For newer readers--it's...