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How a 2019 NEJM Study Misled the World on Vitamin D
James Lyons-Weiler Dr James Lyons-Weiler is a research scientist and prolific author with over 55 peer-reviewed studies and three books. In January 2019, The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that was immediately hailed as the final verdict on vitamin D: it doesn’t work. The study, known
Rich People Won’t Just Sit Still While You Tax Them
Higher taxes motivate the wealthy to move out of state and take their job-providing, revenue-creating businesses with them.
The Trump Administration’s Fight To Fund Scientists
While institutions charge private foundations like Gates a mere 10 per cent and Rockefeller 15 per cent for indirect costs, they charge the NIH much higher rates – 69 per cent for Harvard, 67.5 per cent for Yale, and 63.7 per cent for Johns Hopkins.
Babblers, Cops and Quacks
The sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs.
An Expert Revisits the Errors
At 1,500 feet, the ground proximity warning sounded only seconds before impact, and the DC-10 struck the lower slopes of Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
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Knight of the Day
“For me it’s just a massive honour, not something I would ever expect or even thought was ever going to be a possibility,” Dixon told Stuff.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… propriety (noun) - 1: the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness 2a: conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech b: proprieties plural : the customs and manners of polite society c: fear of offending against conventional rules of behavior especially
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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What Did Medieval Bowmen Really Wear and Carry?
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