BOOYAH! JOB DONE! The Natty Post corrects in response to this story: Editor’s note: In the original article, Michael Rogers intended to say “early evolutionary ancestors” instead of Neanderthals when speaking about the agricultural revolution. As well, he intended to say there’s no anthropological evidence of Type 2 diabetes, not
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: National Post Publishes Absolute Bullshit Re Beyond Meat
The absolute bullshit is this bit: “For the last million years, we’ve evolved with a very specific diet that’s been based on whole foods,” [Michael] Rogers said. “There hasn’t been a change in our diets this drastic in all of human evolution with the exception of one event in human
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Lawrence Solomon, Anti-Vaxxer: Part Bazillion
Enter Lawrence Solomon. You remember Lawrence Solomon, don’t you? He’s what I referred to last summer as a rising star in the antivaccine movement. A conservative columnist for the Financial Post, when first we met him he was complaining about a “conservative failure of skepticism” on vaccines because, apparently, conservatives
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Die Media Die: National Post On Its New Summer Print Schedule
National Post is on its summer print schedule. No more Monday papers until after Labour Day.— Steve Faguy (@fagstein) July 6, 2014 I haven’t seen the official NP statement announcing their summer schedule, but someone on the inside has emailed me a secret first draft, before the despairing tone of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Marni Soupcoff Leaves National Post
There’s been rumors of axe sharpening over at the National Post in advance of their move to new quarters. It looks as though Marni Soupcoff maybe decided to jump before she was pushed: Don’t know quite when this happened, but her twitter feed only goes back a week and they still
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Changes At The National Post
Dear Reader: You will notice a some changes to your print edition of the National Post beginning today. The paper, already a three-section product in most of the country from Monday to Friday, will follow much the same format in Toronto. As a result, the Sports and Arts & Life
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: National Post To Launch Video Game Site
It’s rumored that one of the games is a virtual dunk tank where, for fifty cents, you can choose the NP columnist you hate most and pitch virtual base-balls at a virtual target that, if struck, will send them splashing into a tank of virtual water. If so, Jon and
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