Tuesday, 31 March 2015

PEI Man Arrested, Ordered To Keep The Peace On Suspicion He May Commit Terrorism

"The RCMP in Ottawa issued a news release on the arrest, but declined to answer any questions."

Monday, 30 March 2015

Dozens Of Scientific Papers Withdrawn After Peer-Review Fraud Uncovered

"Concerns about peer review have been growing for decades. Reviewers are almost always already struggling under the burden of their own research and teaching load. Few are paid for their efforts, and even fewer get credit from their employers for this vital contribution to the advancement of science. Many admit off the record to not giving papers the attention they deserve."

Real-Life Vampires Exist, and Researchers Are Studying Them

"What was perhaps most surprising about the vampires I met though was their marked lack of knowledge about vampires in popular culture. They seemed to know much less than you might expect – at least for vampires – about how their kind were depicted in books and films. By this I mean to say that the people I met with and interviewed hadn’t turned to drinking blood or taking psychic energy simply because they had read too many Anne Rice novels."

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

That Moron Who Spews Garbage and Doesn’t Listen to Reason May Be a Bot

"The bot will continue to fire back canned responses that best fit the interlocutor's line of debate—Leck says this goes on for days, in some cases—and the bot's been outfitted with a number of responses on the topic of religion, where the arguments unsurprisingly often end up."

Aussie's Jar'Edo Wens prank sets new record as Wikipedia’s longest-running hoax

"While it is not uncommon for such hoaxes to lie undiscovered for years, the Jar'Edo Wens entry is unusual. A related post by the same contributor about another Aboriginal deity, 'Yohrmum' (your mum), was flagged as 'suspected vandalism' and later removed a year after it appeared."

Friday, 20 March 2015

Medical expansion has led people worldwide to feel less healthy

"In the study, Zheng took into account a variety of factors, other than medical expansion, that may be related to health. He included country-wide variables like economic development and life expectancy at birth. He also included individual-level variables, such as whether people were married, their levels of education and their income.

Even after all these factors were taken into account, all three types of medical expansion were associated with poorer subjective health over time."

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Ex-Big Pharma Sales Rep Speaks Out About The Deception In The Pharmaceutical Industry

"It was an awakening process, a spiritual and consciousness process where I started observing what was happening, what some of the drugs were doing, the misinformation, the disinformation. I was being encouraged to minimize side effects when I talked to doctors. I started to realize that these patients were literally being tortured by the drugs."