We’re living in a post-fact society. Our mistake is to think that by showing them up to be liars, these people will be shamed into changing their behaviour, no, they will just find new ways to censor or punish the honest brokers.
Having said that, thank god for Chris Snowden. When we hear this nonsense it’s great to have an authoritative voice reminding us we’re not actually insane.
When companies collude to create an artificial floor on the price of their product, we call that price-fixing, a criminally anti-competitive practice that would if investigated result in large fines and possibly worse. But when the government does it on their behalf, it's apparently a life-saving pro-consumer intervention.
Great piece Chris. The German critical thinker Eugypius describes this as ..”NGO tyranny”. Government in Scotland acts as a principal hiring these agents to do its work, channeling taxpayer cash and jobs for the boys but mainly girls. Most are qualified in soft social sciences with a hard political edge. Murray being an example par excellence. They are not in the least but interested in evidence. They use disinformation, appeals to emotion and downright lies to please their political partners. They rely on a press packed full of people with the same mindset to retail their nonsense. In truth the national has a lower circulation than The Tablet does on the Shankhill Road, but it’s propped up by government precisely to promote its agenda.
Murray is typical of the mushrooming numbers of middle class scolds in public health or lifestyle control as it should be termed. Her ultimate aim is prohibition of alcohol and a probably the failed open drug use policies Schellenberger so roundly discredits in the US. The authors of this temperance propaganda should be struck off. This isn’t just p hacking or H Bashing. It’s scientific fraud. If you do not report in public discussion of a policy impacting paper that the results are non sig, that is what you are doing. It would be an interesting and depressing exercise which a colleague and I have talked about, to meta analyse the studies which are policy impacting on this hate crime, the decision to pilot jury less rape trials, and the panoply of green impositions being made by this corrupt administration and its enablers. Not that too many policy pushes are supported by actual empirical evidence. It’s either modelling on the basis of WCS, or maudlin personal testimony from “lived experience: ie anecdote . Policy making in Scotland is utterly broken and corrupt.
We’re living in a post-fact society. Our mistake is to think that by showing them up to be liars, these people will be shamed into changing their behaviour, no, they will just find new ways to censor or punish the honest brokers.
Having said that, thank god for Chris Snowden. When we hear this nonsense it’s great to have an authoritative voice reminding us we’re not actually insane.
DRINKING IS GOOD FOR YOU! THE MORE THE BETTER! THE CHEAPER THE BETTER! STOP THIS NONSENSE!
When companies collude to create an artificial floor on the price of their product, we call that price-fixing, a criminally anti-competitive practice that would if investigated result in large fines and possibly worse. But when the government does it on their behalf, it's apparently a life-saving pro-consumer intervention.
Great piece Chris. The German critical thinker Eugypius describes this as ..”NGO tyranny”. Government in Scotland acts as a principal hiring these agents to do its work, channeling taxpayer cash and jobs for the boys but mainly girls. Most are qualified in soft social sciences with a hard political edge. Murray being an example par excellence. They are not in the least but interested in evidence. They use disinformation, appeals to emotion and downright lies to please their political partners. They rely on a press packed full of people with the same mindset to retail their nonsense. In truth the national has a lower circulation than The Tablet does on the Shankhill Road, but it’s propped up by government precisely to promote its agenda.
Murray is typical of the mushrooming numbers of middle class scolds in public health or lifestyle control as it should be termed. Her ultimate aim is prohibition of alcohol and a probably the failed open drug use policies Schellenberger so roundly discredits in the US. The authors of this temperance propaganda should be struck off. This isn’t just p hacking or H Bashing. It’s scientific fraud. If you do not report in public discussion of a policy impacting paper that the results are non sig, that is what you are doing. It would be an interesting and depressing exercise which a colleague and I have talked about, to meta analyse the studies which are policy impacting on this hate crime, the decision to pilot jury less rape trials, and the panoply of green impositions being made by this corrupt administration and its enablers. Not that too many policy pushes are supported by actual empirical evidence. It’s either modelling on the basis of WCS, or maudlin personal testimony from “lived experience: ie anecdote . Policy making in Scotland is utterly broken and corrupt.
“Public” health doing what public health does.