Mad Cow Science

I really loved being told when I was in a store without a mask that I was "killing people" or that I "didn't trust the science."

Unfortunately, the "science" is now out and there's some sad news...

"Emergence of a New Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: 26 Cases of the Human Version of Mad-Cow Disease, Days After a COVID-19 Injection"

Perhaps ironically, or even of irony poisoning according to https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/life-science-industry-mourns-death-astrazeneca-s-cancer-r-d-chief-jose-baselga "AstraZeneca's cancer R&D chief  José Baselga, M.D., Ph.D, passes away, as industry chiefs lead mourning - According to local reports from his native Spain, Baselga died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an incredibly rare and fatal condition causing brain damage that worsens rapidly over time."

AstraZeneca, of course, produced a Covid-19 vaccine.  According to https://www.astrazeneca.com/country-sites/thailand/press-releases/astrazenecas-and-mrna-vaccines-provide-equivalent-protection-against-covid-19-hospitalisation-and-deaths.html "The newly reviewed data makes it clear that both AstraZeneca’s vaccine, which is known as a viral vector vaccine, and ‘mRNA’ COVID-19 vaccines, offer equivalent protection against hospitalisation (91.3-92.5%) and death (91.4-93.3%), regardless of age, with no statistical difference"

Unfortunately for Mr. Baselga it looks like someone forgot to check for "side effects..." - I guess they forgot to follow the "science" of medicine that says "do no harm"...

Oh wait, I musts be wrong.  

It's all just a coincidence!

An "Insult to Stupid"

At the right you'll see the result of, as the content says, suggesting in a Facebook "dog forum" that, in fact, the female dog that birthed the puppies knows best how to raise them.  A violation of the rules.  

Wolves, and their successors dogs, have been around for a few hundred thousand years (see this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_wolf). Humans, and dogs specifically, have been around for twenty (20,000) or more years.

Hundreds of thousands of generations without human help.  My guess is they probably have some idea what they are doing, or they would have gone the way of the Dodo.

If someone struggles to control their dog I suggested they should observe the dogs behavior in the same situation where the mother is involved.  Mother has a mouth, teeth and paws.  That's it.  No smartphone, no computer.  Yet mom, if raised in a normal environment (without human abuse) knows perfectly well how to manage the little cuties.

Is this "adverse"?  Of course not.  It's reality.

Here’s my personal research and background: thirty five years of un-neutered males and females (some but not all).  At least two dozen dogs - many puppies and many liters - dog shows (a hundred or so) up to Westminster (invitation only) - professional (only income) dog handlers including a Westminster winner.  Travels across the eastern US. National specialty shows.

Dogs fights: yes, males, now and then.   All dogs fight if not controlled.  Misbehaving puppies, of course.  All dogs raised by their mothers unless there is some specific reason not too.

No one we’ve encountered along the way, and I mean no one, not even little kids at a dog show would ever believe the no-alpha/alpha disproven stories or the "pandering to the dog" nonsense like this you find on Facebook.  

It’s not the dogs behavior that’s an issue.

Unfortunately, on Facebook, suggesting the dog's familial parents actually know what is going on is considered an "adverse method."

The problem, of course, is that these nimrods people believe that they know better than the dogs how to raise a dog.

Additionally in the same forum, we see the extensive promotion of drugs and spaying/neutering as a way to control dogs.  Not discipline, not you, the human, as the alpha (because the's been "disproven" supposedly).

Academia, the fount of all knowledge, clearly knows best and we should blindly follow.

Though I never seem to have run across any of these academics at dog events over the last four decades. 

I also must confess to laughing at idiots who can't control for these reasons.

(see this older post: https://lwgat.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-parable-of-dog.html)

Gas Stoves Killing Children?

The "gas stove"  controversy takes stupidity down to new levels.

Here's a "study" provided by CNN (https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75): "Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States".  From the Abstract:

"Indoor gas stove use for cooking is associated with an increased risk of current asthma among children and is prevalent in 35% of households in the United States (US). The population-level implications of gas cooking are largely unrecognized."  (Note my underline of "associated" - we are not talking about causality...)

Simple fear mongering.  That's all this is...

What are we supposed to do, use an electric stove?  Wait, isn't that electricity (like the electricity for your electric car) coming from coal and natural gas burning power plants?

I did write about this twelve or so years ago.  These same morons pushing this crap told you that coal plants were killing you (see: https://lwgat.blogspot.com/2011/04/10000-us-deaths-per-year-from-coal.html).  If coal plants are killing you why use electric cars?  Aren't these same coal plants creating your electricity to replace your gas stove killing children?  

Which is worse...?

When I bought my first house the remains of natural gas piping in each room was obvious.  Prior to probably the 1960s this was how a house was heated in an urban area.  Each room with a small gas heater.

Conveniently for this "controversy" it's very hard to find historical facts like this on the internet.  Even more inconvenient is the history of "childhood asthma" (at least in Europe where I could find stats back into the 1970s).  Sadly there wasn't any asthma to speak of in the olden days - right along with the in-room natural gas heaters.

(From https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/26/4/647):

This chart, from Europe, shows no rise in asthma until the 1980s.  Well after gas was used continuously in your home in your room to keep you warm.  

While there are more people today than 1981 when asthma starts to increase on the above chart it seems unlikely that a five percentage point jump is simply due to more gas stoves.  After all, the ratio of gas stoves to electric favors electric over the last decade or so (see: https://www.statista.com/statistics/295477/unit-shipments-of-electric-gas-cooking-appliances/):

Further studies like this clearly show asthma rates varying on their own (https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/26/4/647).  Asthmatics were a small minority in the olden days (before the 1980s).  And I suspect if gas heaters (which emit far more combustion products than a stove) were killing children in the 1940s someone would have noticed.

This is "controversy" is complete and utter nonsense.

It's designed to focus your thinking on something besides myocarditis and people falling over dead from heart problems.