Monday, August 12
Daily News Stuff 12 August 2024
Not As Think As Some Drunkle Peep I Am Edition
Not As Think As Some Drunkle Peep I Am Edition
Top Story
- A scientist accused of cherry-picking studies after announcing he had cherry-picked studies is now accusing his accusers of working for Big Alcohol. (Yahoo)
"We identified six high-quality studies out of 107 and they didn't find any J-shaped curve," Dr Stockwell said. "In fact, since our recent paper, we've now got genetic studies which are showing there's no benefits of low-level alcohol use.
Yeah, this guy is not interested in the science.
"I personally think there might still be small benefits, but the point of our work is that, if there are benefits, they've been exaggerating them."
Taking aim at Dr Harding, he accused him of being an "industry-funded person" who has "made a living from putting a good spin on the relationship between alcohol and health". Dr Harding denied being "funded by anyone". Dr Stockwell in turn brushed off the claim that he himself is compromised through his links to the temperance lobby.
"I have attended a meeting funded by the Swedish Temperance Organisation and I've written material that they have published," he said. "I've had connections with the International Order of Good Templars. I've attended some of their meetings, but I'm not a member."
Tech News
- Starship's next test flight is expected late August or early September. (WCCFTech)
Excelsior!
- AMD is not planning patches for that security vulnerability for Ryzen 1000, 2000, or 3000 chips. (Tom's Hardware)
Epyc server chips from the same generations are receiving patches.
- AMD's Ryzen 9700X - yea or nay?
Nay, at least not at current prices. The main competition to AMD comes not from Intel, but from AMD itself. The 8 core 9700X is more expensive than both the 12 core 7900, which will be a better platform for productivity, and the 3D V-Cache enabled 7800X3D, which is one of the best CPUs available for gaming.
And both have similar power efficiency to the newer chip. The 7900 is a 65W chip like the 9700X. The 7800X3D is nominally a 120W chip but consistently uses far less than that, running close to the 88W peak power allowed to AMD's nominal 65W chips.
Disclaimer: Oh, not.
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If this guy is so convinced there's no benefit to alcohol he should go live in medieval England.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, August 12 2024 11:09 PM (MItL9)
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Alcohol is more functional when your drinking water has the pathogen loadings that European water levels did, as a result of the long term high populations.
North America did not have those pathogen loadings, and the indians did not have the mutations/evolution from surviving the long term alcohol use that other populations had. The J curve could be imaginary, and there would still be the fact that this guy, his backers, and the medical profession have given the public no reason to think that the methodology of 'new' approved results is sound, or that they should be trusted not to be griefing. 'Scientific consensus' and the WHO are pretty much griefing.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, August 13 2024 12:30 AM (rcPLc)
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