Alberta’s environment minister, Rebecca Schulz, is in Germany today, getting set to celebrate the opening of a large geothermal electricity-generating project that uses technology designed by a Calgary company. Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). At the same time, back home in Wild Rose Country, geothermal projects
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A Puff of Absurdity: Over 90,000 Canadian Deaths and Counting
A JAMA article called out 52 medical health professionals who knowingly posted misinformation on social media. About a third of them are primary care physicians. It doesn’t name any names, but the funny bit is that some of them have outed themselves on Twitter as they complain about the post. The
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Glop & Pail: More People Are Dying Than We Care To Account For
More People Than Expected Are Dying In 2023 For Reasons That We Are Unwilling To Consider. pic.twitter.com/BGwBySR7AK — The Vertlartnic (@TheVertlartnic) August 16, 2023 An anti-waxxer would read that headline and think it’s a nod to vaccine injuries, but they remain mal-informed idiots. No, the cause is the pandemic, and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We Should Not Implicitly Trust the Mainstream News Media – Douglas Murray
This was Douglas Murray’s closing statement in the Munk Debate over whether one should trust the mainstream media. It should be required viewing over at the CBC and CTV. Also, see the full debate here where you can watch Douglas Murray and Matt Taibbi crush the opposition and especially Malc
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: How the Media Works
A new study just out that followed 548 people with Long Covid in Spain and found that only 7.6% of them recovered in the two years of the study. People think Long Covid means you’re sicker a little longer, but this study suggests that most people possibly don’t recover. Yet you can
Continue readingThings Are Good: Will Kindergarteners be Better at Fact Checking than Boomers?
Figure 1 from Cook, Ellerton, and Kinkead 2018. CC BY 3.0 We tach kids how to read so why not teach them to understand how to critique what they read? People tend to be fine with that (although some basic people claim schools shouldn’t teach kids how to question the
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Google on C-18
It’s a bill, not a virus. The gist of it is that it requires American tech companies to pay Canadian news organizations for content that appears on their platforms. The hope is that the law will help Canadian news agencies. But Google and Meta responded that they’re just going to block
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP addiction to inflicting ideological solutions on real problems means plague of drug deaths is unlikely to abate
In a better world, the conveniently timed post-election release of statistics showing Alberta had the deadliest month on record in April for fatal drug poisonings would have discredited the “Alberta Model” for treating addiction. Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Tragically, that is unlikely to happen. Alberta’s United
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: It’s all the Scientists’ Fault!
We’re at the stage in climate change news that it’s time to blame scientists for not telling anyone about it before now. Headline from The Hill: “Catch-22: Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas” “Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Debating Science
Dr. Peter Hotez is a medical doctor in Texas who did his undergrad at Yale and his medical degree at Cornell. He has been successful at creating Covid vaccine technology cheaply and patent-free so it can be distributed to low-income countries. His work has been “nominated for the 2022 Nobel
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: D. Smith Suspended From Facebook
The Premier of Alberta was whining about being temporarily suspended from posting to Facebook yesterday. 1. Smith, you block people, constituents, all the time!2. You post deadly disinformation about hoaxes routinely.3. Meta/Facebook has blocked links to my website despite it not hosting misinformation, and provides no opportunity to appeal, so
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Antoine Flahault et al. offer a reminder that we can’t afford to be complacent about an ongoing COVID pandemic which continues to cause serious and sustained harm on a mass basis. And in case we needed another reminder of the aftereffects of
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Copy editors checking facts? That’s thing of the past at Postmedia, apparently, as election column illustrates
This may surprise some readers, but back in the early 1970s, when your blogger was a callow youth working as a cub reporter for the Calgary Herald, newspapers did their own fact checking! A Calgary Herald paperboy (Photo: Calgary Herald Archives). This important task was done by a special category
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Coexistence With Bears on CBC Radio
Driving to work on Saturday and Sunday I tune to CBC to get an idea of what is going on in Alberta and the world. On Sunday though I was quite perplexed. The topic was – I think – bear safety. Bear safety, especially during spring, is a relevant topic
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Yong discusses how the brutal realities of long COVID are being systematically erased from the public eye. And Josh Lynn reports on the state of crisis in a Saskatchewan hospital – even as the Moe government’s top priority is to squelch
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Murdoch/Fox called to account
Rupert Murdoch is a man whose lack of ethics should preclude him from being within shouting distance of journalism. Yet he is the world’s most powerful media mogul. He owns hundreds of publishing outlets around the world, including The Sun and The Times of London newspapers in the UK; The
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: If We Don’t Report It, It Doesn’t Exist
There's a clear reason this happened, and satirists around the world are noting it.https://t.co/QKs3LPOsXR — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) April 17, 2023 On the eve of this Roughriders season, it's a reminder that government transparency matters. Information matters. The province's inability to comply with its own legislation matters. — Alexander
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zak Vescera reports on the CCPA’s new research showing how an increasing number of jobs in British Columbia are precarious – with already-disadvantaged workers especially likely to be affected. Don Pittis points out the Bank of Canada’s continued attempts to hold wages below
Continue readingmark a. rayner: Protected: After the Internet
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: New Zealand & Australia – The Violence Against Women in the name Transactivism
People need to rethink their positions on those claiming to be on the ‘right side of history’. The “Be Kind” transgender activists have proven repeatedly they are nothing of the sort.
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