Tag Archives: science

No, Google’s (current) AI is not sentient

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Lummox JR

Gads people are stupid. This is gonna be a long rant. Recently a lot of news has been made about the Google engineer who convinced himself the AI he was working with was sentient. He got canned recently, which is … Continue reading →

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More bad food science

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Lummox JR

The other day I was perusing Reddit and ran into an article in r/science talking about a “study” that compared people eating less meat and processed food to those eating a diet with more plants and such. This really should … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus over- and under-reactions

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Lummox JR

I’ve been seeing a lot of news about the new Wuhan coronavirus, currently named 2019-nCoV, and there are multiple extreme opinions that keep being thrown in my face that need to be confronted. The other day a friend on Facebook … Continue reading →

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Adam ruins his show / Bacon will not give you cancer, the hat trick

Posted on January 23, 2019 by Lummox JR

I actually am a fan of Adam Ruins Everything, but from time to time holy crap does he get some stuff amazingly wrong. Often that happens to be on politically charged issues, and this being a non-political blog I will … Continue reading →

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Bacon won’t give you stomach cancer, redux

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Lummox JR

Two years ago I posted about a story that had gone viral on Facebook, in which the World Cancer Research Fund claimed bacon would cause stomach cancer. When I did actual due diligence to see where they came up with … Continue reading →

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Pointless controversy: renewable energy is mostly crap

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Lummox JR

California is asking people to prepare for the solar eclipse coming in August by, at that time, unplugging anything non-essential so their grid doesn’t barf all over itself when the heavily solar-powered state suddenly has no solar power for a … Continue reading →

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Bad blurb advice

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Lummox JR

It’s been quite a while since I last did a post about book blurbs, and this one is way overdue. It also coincides with another of my favorite pastimes, because it’s a rant. I fall in and out of heavy … Continue reading →

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Fast food calories: nobody cares!

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Lummox JR

A new study has determined that calorie labeling on fast food menus does not impact consumers’ choices in any significant way—which is to say, pretty much at all. What were the odds? 100%. They were always 100%. Let’s leave aside … Continue reading →

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Of man and machine

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Lummox JR

As a sci-fi reader, and writer, I’m fascinated by some technologies that appear to be on the horizon—maybe distantly, but then it’s surprising how fast science fiction tends to become reality in the least expected ways. I didn’t think self-driving … Continue reading →

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No, bacon will not give you stomach cancer

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Lummox JR

A friend of mine shared this story on Facebook today, and the story (and the report it’s based on) is so stupid I feel the need to shred it to pieces. (Not the friend, of course.) Also it maligns my … Continue reading →

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