Interesting Links for 25-04-2019

[andrewducker]

Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

(tags:inflammation health )

Scruton is part of an intellectual culture giving respectability to racism

(tags:racism uk OhForFucksSake )

The journalistic cowardice of 'a lot of people say...'

(tags:journalism fail OhForFucksSake )

Autistic people share information with other autistic people as effectively as non-autistic people share with each other. The problem is that the two groups have problems communicating with each other.

(tags:autism research psychology )

Dog semen quality has been dropping in tandem with human semen quality

(tags:sperm dogs )

Trump's washing machine tariffs cost U.S. consumers $815,000 for every job created

(tags:trade usa epicfail )

The strange death of Tory economic thinking

(tags:conservatives morality economics politics uk )

Comments

[calimac]

I like the analysis of what Enoch Powell's infamous speech actually consists of.

The "a lot of people say" bit is catching the wrong end of the stick. The point isn't whether the speakers are evading responsibility for their words. The point is the substantive one of: if Brexit results in the UK remaining subject to EU rules, then what the F was the point of Brexit? It was supposed to get the EU out from under. But of course that's impractical, so the actual solution is NOT TO HAVE BREXIT AT ALL, but that's too obvious to be implemented.

Publishing scientific research results in the form of tweet-storms really, really sucks.

[andrewducker]

I sadly know a couple of people who wanted out of the EU to avoid the "ever closer union" part, and would be delighted to be in the EEA, rule-taking and all.

[anef]

The strange death of Tory economic thinking rings true and is genuinely scary.