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— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) February 2, 2021

The Democrats in power in Washington will do nothing. The censorship is all in their favor. I have not heard any Democrat on the national level speak out against censorship of conservative speech. Maybe there has been one or two and I just missed it. I have heard numerous Democrat calls for additional censorship of conservatives. State action is the only possible response at this point. DeSantis is one of the leaders in this effort.

Poll: Four in ten say COVID restrictions eased after Trump exit for ‘partisan political reasons’

The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science

Roger Pielke Jr.:

“…A 2015 literature review found almost 900 peer-reviewed studies published on breast cancer using a cell line derived from a breast cancer patient in Texas in 1976. But in 2007 it was confirmed that the cell line that had long been the focus of this research was actually not a breast cancer line, but was instead a skin cancer line. Whoops.

Even worse, from 2008 to 2014 — after the mistaken cell line was conclusively identified — the review identified 247 peer-reviewed articles putatively on breast cancer that were published using the misidentified skin cancer cell line. A cursory search of Google Scholar indicates that studies continue to be published in 2020 mistakenly using the skin cell line in breast cancer research.

The lesson from this experience is that science has momentum, and that momentum can be hard to change, even when obvious and significant flaws are identified. This is particularly the case when the flaws exist in databases that underlie research across an entire discipline.

In 2020, climate research finds itself in a similar situation to that of breast cancer research in 2007. Evidence indicates the scenarios of the future to 2100 that are at the focus of much of climate research have already diverged from the real world and thus offer a poor basis for projecting policy-relevant variables like economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions…

…As a result of the growing recognition of the divergence between scenarios and the real-world, the climate research community is in a similar place to where the breast cancer research community was in 2007. Evidence is now undeniable that the basis for a significant amount of research has become untethered from the real world. The issue now is what to do about it.

The challenges for climate research are significant. Consider that in contrast to the 900 articles that misused a skin cancer line as a breast cancer line, our literature review found almost 17,000 peer-reviewed articles that use the now-outdated highest emissions scenario. That particular scenario is also by far the most commonly cited in recent climate assessments of the IPCC and the U.S. National Climate Assessment. And every day new studies are published using outdated scenarios.

The elevated role of scenarios across climate research means that there is a huge momentum behind their continued use. A research reset would be a massive endeavor and would require essentially writing off the policy, economic or other real-world relevance of thousands of studies, and perhaps even their scientific utility. Though to be fair, there are reasons to use exploratory scenarios in modeling or theoretical studies, but such uses shouldn’t be confused with practical relevance — just as studies of skin cancer lines should not be confused with breast cancer lines…”

Related:

Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and environmental policy discourses

Acquitted killer of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl transferred from death row to Pakistani safe house

Ocasio-Cortez says she’s a sexual assault survivor, suggests Capitol riot compounded earlier trauma

The New York congresswoman compared her experience after Jan. 6 to that of being told by an abuser to ‘move on’ after sexual trauma.

Maybe she is a sexual assault survivor. So many liberals make up stories about personal victimhood, that I would like to see proof before I accept that claim.

Hat tip to Conservative Momma

Related:

Ms. Psaki does not like being ridiculed in the press and social media. The “circle back” phenomenon has apparently resulted in this:

White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance

It’s not fair. How can the White House Press Secretary be prepared for all the questions?

Female athlete speaks out against new Biden executive order on gender identity

Idaho college runner says it’s ‘frustrating’ to compete against biological males.

Democrats are more concerned with the small fraction of the population that suffers from transgenderism than they are with normal women. I feel for the the people who suffer from transgenderism. It must be terrible. However, I don’t view them as heroes to be emulated, or special people to be put on a pedestal above others. Why should the unusual needs of a few override the normal needs of the many?

Democrats.

We live in the age of stupid.

CNN is reporting that the Biden administration can't decide whether the armed, military takeover of the civilian government in Myanmar is a "coup" or not.

Meanwhile, they are certain the Viking Hat guy and his selfie army were a coup.#TheBigLie

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 2, 2021

Whenever liberals acquire power their supporters in the media make sure to incessantly hype cartoonish right-wing fringe figures in order to deflect from what liberals are actually doing with their newly acquired power (Marjorie Taylor Greene is just Michele Bachmann 2.0)

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 1, 2021

The 19th century author Charles McKay had thoughts relevant to today’s climate religion. In his 1841 book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” McKay writes:

“…In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do.

We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple; and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity. 

At an early age in the annals of Europe its population lost their wits about the sepulcher of Jesus, and crowded in frenzied multitudes to the Holy Land; another age went mad for fear of the devil, and offered up hundreds of thousands of victims to the delusion of witchcraft. At another time, the many became crazed on the subject of the philosopher’s stone, and committed follies till then unheard of in the pursuit…”

Hat tip to Willis Eschenbach

We live in the age of stupid.

More on what modern “antiracism” does to schools

John McWhorter:

“…In my Atlantic article about antiracism manifestos that threaten to destroy institutions’ basic missions as educational, I mentioned that the Dalton School in New York was considering transformative antiracism measures.

However, I have it on good authority that in fact, the damage was already done as of last semester. Here are some snapshots from Dalton, Fall 2020 from concerned parents who, because if they went public with their names they would be pilloried as bigots nationwide, are staying anonymous.

“Every class this year has had an obsessive focus on race and identity, ‘racist cop’ reenactments in science, ‘de-centering whiteness’ in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class.”

“In place of a joyful progressive education, students are exposed to an excessive focus

on skin color and sexuality, before they even understand what sex is. Children are

bewildered or bored after hours of discussing these topics in the new long-format

classes.”

“Why would anyone voluntarily send their children to be taught that they are guilty regardless of their decency and kindness? A school where they are constantly reminded of the color of their skin, not the content of their character. What Black parent wants the other children to feel sorry for their kid and look at them differently? We have spoken with dozens of families, of all colors and backgrounds, who are in shock and looking for an alternative school for their children.”

Now – The Elect (my term for the hyperwoke who are hijacking constructive leftist ideals in this nation) will claim that this sort of thing is exactly what education needs to be, and that white (or “white”) parents who object are displaying “fragility.” However, we get that “fragility” notion from one of the worst books ever written, as I have argued here. What Dalton is doing is a tragic and grisly substraction of what education should be…”

Biden administration cites climate change as a ‘racial justice issue.’

It is hard to understand how people believe this.

it is stupid.

Democrat.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST:

Shot:

I remember watching my first Winter Olympics in 1980. We were on a family ski trip at Copper Mountain in Colorado, where my brother and I skied the first powder run of our lives. It was on a gentle slope just off one of the main trails. We wiggled down the hill in chaotic rapture then skied the run again and again. The snow was soft and the turns effortless. You don’t have to be a skier to feel nostalgia for those whitewashed days — or to see the writing on the wall.

—“The End of Snow?”, the New York Times, February 7^th, 2014.

Chaser:

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll

Pelosi, Schumer File Resolution to Let Democrats Pass Relief Package Without GOP Support

“…Democrat congressional leaders on Monday introduced a budget resolution that will let lawmakers pass a fresh COVID-19 relief package without any Republican support.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the joint budget resolution.

The measure is the first step in potentially enacting a budget reconciliation bill, which would let Democrats pass the package even if no Republicans back it because they hold majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate…”

Remember Obama Care. Same trick. It worked so well last time. Imbeciles run our government.

THE LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT’S WEB SITE:

Hat tip to Gail Herriot

Biden State Appointee Says White Diplomats Are Too ‘Protective’ of United States

“…Desirée Cormier Smith claims black diplomats have more humility and empathy than white colleagues

A top foreign-policy adviser joining the Biden State Department has argued that white diplomats are often too “protective of the United States,” a statement potentially in violation of new department guidelines.

Desirée Cormier Smith, a newly minted senior adviser in the Bureau of International Organizations, said in a podcast interview that white diplomats often treated visa applicants with hostility because of their “ownership” over the visas during her experience as a foreign-service officer.

“It seemed like many of our white colleagues approached the visa applicants with so much ownership over these visas. They were so protective of the United States, and they didn’t want anybody who could sully the image of the United States because it’s this perfect shining city on a hill,” she told the Black Diplomats podcast in October. “If you are a white foreign-service officer, coming from a very wealthy background, a two-parent household, never knew what it meant to struggle … you might automatically assume that there’s no way [an applicant] would use this visa properly.”

Such language may run afoul of previously implemented State Department guidelines. The State Department’s discrimination and harassment policies place priorities on diversity and tolerance in the culture of the department, asking employees to work without bias toward skin color.

“Discriminatory harassment is verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility toward an individual because of his or her race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age (40 or over), physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or because of his or her opposition to discrimination or his or her participation in the discrimination complaint process,” the department’s policy reads. “Some examples of conduct that might constitute harassment include: Racial epithets, ‘jokes,’ offensive or derogatory comments, or other verbal or physical conduct based on an individual’s race/color.”…”

Democrat. This is what you get.

https://twitter.com/GraceAnne_kelly/status/1356287809787723777

Hat tip to Kane

Rove spread a rumor? The rumor was true.

Karl Rove had the John Weaver story back in 2004! (Atlantic dismissed it as a "lie")https://t.co/lP1HOMDHV8 pic.twitter.com/X62e2fZ0h6

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 31, 2021