Two were meta analysis conducted last year which came to contradicting conclusions about the link between saturated fats and heart disease. The science has been unsettled like this for many years.

If he had done the research, he would have come to the conclusion that he arrives at in the article. We don't really know what's going on.

Check out a guy named Ancel Keys, who's 7 country study was enormously influential, as well as Dr Jeremiah Stamler, who published a self-help booklet in 1966 (sponsored by the corn oil industry) telling people to alter "habits even before the final proof is nailed down" with regards to saturated fats and heart disease.

Sometimes, it only takes a handful of people in white coats who are well meaning and respected to change public opinion.

Independence doesn't really mean anything. Objectivity does. You don't have to be independent to be objective.

I'll invest in the now lucrative broom market and make a fortune.

Why do I have an innate right to own property? Is it only because it is a cultural norm? If I lived in a culture where, say, land is so plentiful, it doesn't make sense for any one person to own it. Would I still have an innate right to own that land?

That's an interesting narrative you have there. The settlements were/are about the Treaty and nothing else. The cultural stuff is important, and it's possible for a culture to appreciate the importance of the environment around them, and also over succeeding generations, make a total mess of it.

It doesn't sound like you've read 'The Penguin History of New Zealand'. It should be required reading in schools. You should do yourself a favour and find a copy, if only the read the first two/three chapters.

Communalism != communism

Replaced by jobs in the low paying service sector. So while labour force participation has increased somewhat, real US household incomes have remained almost stationary for the bottom 80% of US workers.

The Solomon curve seems to show that the safest speed to travel is just slightly below the average speed. This doesn't make any sense. X isn't variation from average. shouldn't it be speed in mph, with 0 being the speed limit?

And, in the 50's, when the data was collated, how did Solomon accurately predict the speed the cars involved in these collisions were going at? We cant do that reliably now.

Taxonomy isn't a field that all scientists wish they could work in.

Good luck trying to get high school science students interested in the concept of biological classification.

It is possible to sleep drive in the same way you can sleep walk. A New Zealand woman drove 300 kmand operated her cell-phone while asleep.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10912545

Maybe you should hire better PM's so you don't have a 'crunch'.

Most managers are accountable to someone, and tend to balance the needs of various stakeholders, i.e. workers, internal/external customers, owners, suppliers etc.

Who is Linus accountable to? When he swears at the other devs, which stakeholders' interest is he trying to protect? The users?

There are no individual rights that aren't granted by the collective.

A recount of a paper ballot will generally give a different result.

If you have an electoral system where each vote is counted towards the composition of the government, then this is a problem.