- fermented shark, an Icelandic delicacy
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Urinary Metabolites of Organophosphate Pesticides (may be gated). Found a correlation between ADHD scores and pesticide exposure. “The present study adds to the accumulating evidence linking higher levels of pesticide exposure to adverse developmental outcomes.”
- Does God see everything? (see comments). “The pent-up pain and frustration of current and former ABC News employees has finally boiled over.” Follow-up.
I wonder what it’s like being around the fermented sharks. It is hard enough for me to be around the cheese at Whole Foods! It smells really weird!!
Is there some connection between the ABC links here and your other usual topics? (This is not a critique; I’m genuinely curious.) It’s rather notable how well-written that vicious comment section is, and I thank you for pointing it out.
If I understood it correctly, the ABC issue is the equivalent of a Corporate Horror Story…
yes, the ABC issue is a Corporate Horror Story — that is one connection. But the main connection is the leveling (loss of monopoly power) produced by the internet. Self-experimentation is a kind of leveling: you should have to have a grant to do science, self-experimentation makes it possible for anyone. Blogs are a kind of leveling; anyone can have a blog. And the ABC comments are a kind of leveling: They don’t fix the problem because the source of the problem has left but at least they allow the victims to speak up. I also thought the ABC comments were a great picture of what one workplace was really like. Self-experimentation doesn’t just allow anyone to do science, it also allows a more thorough sort of science to be done — for example, sleep can be studied for much longer periods of time. I can easily test 10 different ways to lose weight via self-experimentation; doing conventional research it’s hard to test even one way. The ABC comments were probably more detailed than any one writer could ever assemble.