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Goodnight Sunshine Germany is cutting solar-power subsidies because they are expensive and inefficient. In the words of the German Association of Physicists, “solar energy cannot replace any additional power plants.” On short, overcast winter days, Germany’s 1.1 million solar-power systems can generate no electricity at all. The country is then forced to import considerable amounts […]
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Tags: climate, DoomedToFail, electricity, fanatism, green, hogwash
The cultural divide
The reason why the Western world and the Islamic world are so completely out of touch. Remember the interview of Khaddafi with Blair? Khadddafi was purposely showing the soles of his shoe to Blair when he was sitting down with him. In our culture crossing your legs is something nobody pays attention to. In his […]
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Tags: Ideology, islam, middle east, obama, religion, terrorism, usa
Many times we see advertisements for products where the makers claim that their product is better then that of their competitors because they had asked 10 people if they liked it. The Ad then goes something like: ACME is found to be the best of all other products study shows. In extremely tiny lettering in […]
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Tags: Astrology, Factfree Science, Psychology, Sjamanism, SnakeOil
The Hatebeard phenomenon
Watching current affairs one can’t help but being struck by the correlation between beards, religion/ideology and hate/intolerance. The most rabid examples are the proponents of the Islam, but the same kind of bearded backwardness can also be found in Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc. Those are the determining factors of a HateBeard: a) Beard, preferably long […]
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Tags: haatbaard, Hate, HateBeard, Ideology, Misogyny, religion
Autism revisited
Autism has become popular of late. The rate of diagnosed autism rises fast. If this is due to a better awareness or an actual increase is impossible to determine due to a lack of a baseline. It’s unknown what autism rate was so one can’t say if it increases in reality, the awareness causes more […]
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A Better Index of Body Adiposity. An article were the writer proposes a rather fanciful measuring system to calculate body fat as part of body mass. The body adiposity index (BAI = ((hip circumference)/((height)1.5)–18)). A quick glance at the material is enough to see that yet again someone jumps to conclusions, and that the method […]
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The Monkey on the Ape’s Back
Technically this should be called: The Ape on the Monkey’s back but for sake of the imagery the title is more apt. When thinking of an ape we tend to think of a big beast and in case of a monkey a tiny one, whilst ofcourse the ape is the primate. Still it has a […]
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Tags: brain, consciousness, free will, Philosophy
The brain believes, do you?
Untold thinkers have written insights with varying clarity concerning the role and functionality of religion in people. In my humble opinion all parties get stuck in ever repeating card houses of logic defending their particular conviction thereby completely ignoring the core of the matter. What is religion to more or less objective standards? The following […]
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Tags: consciousness, Philosophy, religion
The disease FAT does not exist
Correlation and Causality ran wild We are overrun with studies, not a day goes by or we learn another result of a study. Alcohol is good for the heart, alcohol causes cancer. Smoking is unhealthy, smoke is good against dementia. The climate warms, the climate cools, the climate does both at the same time. Why […]
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Tags: CVD, Obesity, Weight
