A Fable Of Fishy Science
In the days of lore, about the year 1400, in merry ole England there resided in London a wealthy potion maker of great renown.
UK disaster: now prohibition kills 36 pubs a week
<div style="text-align: justify">“One in six pubs will close by 2012 – hit by the credit crunch, the smoking ban and drinkers turning to cheap supermarket booze. Thirty-six are already shutting every week, with thousands of staff losing their jobs and many communities losing long-established focal points”, says The Publican.</div>
4,000 minorities to be hired by Federal Civil Service
<div style="text-align: justify">I read with interest the other day that the Clerk of the Privy Council has ordered the Canadian Federal Civil Service to hire 4,000 minorities for positions. It doesn’t matter if in doing so they use quotas, if such exist, or fair representation of the population, whatever that may be, it’s just a case of "do it."</div>
Death to the social engineers
<div style="text-align: justify">This looks like a harmless article with a lot of good intentions; but read it carefully. It talks about engineering your environment to <b>MAKE</b> you do what they want you to do. Like all very professionally prepared propaganda should do, the poison is hidden in the beautiful flower.</div>
When stupidity is the rule
<div style="text-align: justify">In advocating indirect censorship, this trash by the National Cancer Institute highlights not only the malignity of antitobacco, but also its incoherent stupidity.</div>
Ban mania: bottled water is “morally unacceptable”
<div style="text-align: justify">The dementia inspiring bans has hit on bottled water. This piece from the National Post (Canada) speaks about the latest paranoia about health and environment, long ago promoted by the healthists (very much like light cigarettes) and then demonized by the healthists (light cigarettes “kill” just the same). In both cases, the tobacco industry and consumers suffer, not the perpetrators.</div>
Important information about light bulbs
<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />We are in times of collective dementia. Yes, that is a heavy comment, and perhaps reality is excessively harsh for many to accept, so denial is the “natural” reaction. It is also a comfortable excuse for submitting and doing nothing; but reality stands nevertheless.</div>
Mortgage Crisis, the Dollar and Its Future, Part 4
<div style="text-align: justify">Dollar value is a matter of trust.</div>
As close to Nazi science as it gets
<div style="text-align: justify">We will not waste much time on the non-existing scientific “merits” of this propaganda trash science study headed: “Is it exposure to cigarette smoke or to smokers which increases the risk of meningococcal disease in teenagers?" This idiocy was published in 2006.</div>
Public health: the same bait for new fools
<div style="text-align: justify">Every fisherman can tell you that, when a bait works and it catches a lot of fish, you don’t change it and you keep on casting. In short, you don’t change what works.</div>