Archive - January 3rd, 2018

‘Raw water’ is the latest pseudo-scientific craze that could make you sick

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“The answer isn’t, as the New York Times’ Kendra Pierre-Louis tweets, for the wealthy, worried well to just opt out of the public water supply. Nor is it for them leap into the arms of another poorly-regulated, money-making scheme that could make them sick (see: workout supplements). Instead the answer is to continue to push […]

How I Learned to Look Believable

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“[I]t is my understanding that these hearings are basically like courtrooms — where the plaintiff is the administration and the defendant is the accused. When the University of California professor Blake Wentworth was fired, it was after an Academic Senate committee hearing. “I can’t say whether I participated in such a hearing, but I can […]

Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign

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“Even though the numbers in a few key states had appeared to be changing to Trump’s advantage, neither Conway nor Trump himself nor his son-in-law, Jared ­Kushner—the effective head of the campaign—­wavered in their certainty: Their unexpected adventure would soon be over. Not only would Trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, […]