JunkScience.com Announces Top Ten “Most Embarrassing Moments” of 2004

First off, response to Mata: Glad to hear from you! Bottling sunshine... MMmmmmm... It's expected to get below freezing here tonight. However! I am a happy member of a divine ladies joint here - offering hair, nails, massage, tanning, gossip, Jesus, and wonderful southern ladyness -- I get my sunshine doses and imagine I'm back in CA soaking up sunshine. It helps my joints tremendously. I'm not entirely certain the reason is syllopsistic but I've discovered over the years, the beds work great for my old knee injuries, the broken leg from skiiing, the broken arms from doing flip stunts and jumping off the second floor landing with my brother in our new PF Flyer sneakers, the hips from childcarrying.. and I walk out feelin' so purty.

Bottled Sunshine. I get mine at the local ladies' salon. And no one screaming at me: You'll DIE! You'll shoot your eyes out with Sun-tzu Ultra Violet (SUV)! heheh. Hope you are having a great time; loved the quote from the War Hero.

(I'm working on "Big Hair"; but it seems it's become passe here in the Old South. Dang It! I wanna go through a Big Hair Stage! I demand it!)

Saw the following and knew it just had to be posted:

JunkScience.com Announces Top Ten “Most Embarrassing Moments” of 2004

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JunkScience.com’s Top Ten “low-lights” for 2004 are:

1. In August, Harvard University researcher Dr. Walter Willett delivered an urgent warning to parents declaring soft drinks harmful to children. Upon closer inspection, however, the report by Dr. Willett’s research team suppressed some highly contradictory evidence-- including findings from their own research -- to reach this far-flung conclusion. Read more...

2. Leading up to election day, Stanford researcher and TV spokesman, Dr. Irving Weissman, preyed on the public’s trust in his credentials as he hawked the $3 billion pro-embryonic stem cell research initiative, known as Proposition 71, to California voters -- without also disclosing the fact that, as a director and major options holder in a stem cell research company, he stands to benefit substantially from the windfall of taxpayer dollars. Read more...

3. Anti-obesity crusaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who claimed in March that “obesity kills 400,000 Americans each year,” received a long-overdue black eye when researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics attacked the oft-quoted estimate as overblown by as much as 200 percent -- revealing just how the crusaders cooked the books. Read more...

4. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment alerted the public that polar bears may be on the verge of extinction due to global warming -- even though their own data show that the current Arctic warming trend is within the expected fluctuations of the Arctic’s natural cooling/warming cycle. Despite their claims, other scientific surveys indicate that polar bear populations have actually been increasing during the current warming trend! Read more...

So... um.. how do polar bears survive at zoos? Heck, unless they got blankets, it could get a bit raw. Were I a polar bear... the warm weather would um, make me feel rather ticklish. Yeknow?

P.S. I read Jeb Bush was trying to revamp Florida Insurance -- to deal with "tax relief for people who lost their homes and the elimination of multiple deductibles on insurance policies for those who had damage from more than one hurricane. "