This just isn't going to fly in a redneck state.


Baloney. Beer would also need to be cold if you were having a picnic a short distance away. Or if you have houseguests and find yourself out of beer you do not want to make them wait until it is chilled. I'm sure there are any number of other ligitimate reasons.

Sen Bill Alter is Stooopid!

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (note the mix of science and politics in the name), said on Wednesday it would sue Kellogg cereal company if they don't change marketing aimed at children.


Last I heard it was the parents job to determine what children eat and are exposed to, not this so-called "Science in the Public Interest" group, but I digress.

Update: Also a group of consumer advocates are also threatening to sue Pepsi for selling sugary soft drinks in schools. Ah what would we do without the pleasure police to keep us wholesome.

How do outstanding and respected scientists get to the point where they are compelled to do research with claims so fraudulent that they end up trashing their reputations and careers? This is at least the fourth one in the last month that I am aware of, but undoubtly the worst. Or at least the most blatent unfounded.

This time it is respected cancer scientist Jon Sudboe at the Norwegian Radium Hospital who faked an entire oral cancer study.


For someone well educated he wasn't even careful because 250 of 908 people in the supposed study had the same birthday. But that wasn't what caught him (although it probably would have eventually). It was noticed that Dr Sudboe claimed to have gathered some of his information from a national database that wasn't even opened until after the time he claimed his study was carried out.