Australian blogger who claimed natural remedies cured her cancer admits: 'None of it is true' . . . even in the former prison colony know as Australia. Wanker. She is cute though! No, not the criminal wanker, the chesty brunette behind her!
"Belle Gibson, the disgraced Australian “wellness blogger” who faked terminal cancer and claimed she was cured using natural remedies, faces legal action and penalties of more than £500,000 for profiting from her elaborate global scam. The state of Victoria’s consumer watchdog launched action in Australia’s federal court against the 24-year-old over her claim that she overcame brain cancer without resorting to conventional medicine – a claim she used to promote The Whole Pantry, her internationally successful phone app and cookbook." She was telling an Al Gore level porky. "Facing pressure, she admitted in an interview with the Australian Women's Weekly magazine last year that she did not have cancer and that she fabricated the medical diagnosis which, she had claimed, gave her only months to live. “None of it’s true,” she said." And like Little Al, she did it for the money. Dead Pool! How much prison time will she receive, how big a fine?
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The most pressing problem we have in colleges today are false racial, and sexual charges . . .5/3/2016 N.Y. students accused of making up hate crime
. . . commonly against white middle class students. More below the fold. 'Ban the Box' Goes to College
. . . from doing everything they can to allow it to become a cesspit of rape, and criminality. "The long-running “Ban the Box” campaign is now gaining ground at colleges and universities. The movement aims to protect job, and now student, applicants from being asked about their criminal histories and was recently bolstered by President Obama, who is taking executive action to ban the practice at federal agencies." Shocking, an in the tank Socialist makes the wrong decision! This will have positive results at university I am sure. What could happen? Instapundit
"Saying that such a dialogue was essential to the college’s academic mission, Trescott University president Kevin Abrams confirmed Monday that the school encourages a lively exchange of one idea. “As an institution of higher learning, we recognize that it’s inevitable that certain contentious topics will come up from time to time, and when they do, we want to create an atmosphere where both students and faculty feel comfortable voicing a single homogeneous opinion,” said Abrams, adding that no matter the subject, anyone on campus is always welcome to add their support to the accepted consensus." Either this is brilliant Onion satire, or the end of the Onion, if real how could one satirize this? Future historians will have a devil of a time figuring out what happened to cause such a large proportion of the Academe to simply fall into fascist totalitarian mental illness. Peaceful, pacifist vegans want to kill couple who turn from veganism and now eat meat . . .4/28/2016 L.A. Vegans Go to War: Death Threats, Macrobiotic Bowls and Virulence of Beef Broth
. . . oh, those peaceful vegans, and their murderous, rage. Progressives would be happy if only you complied with each and every one of their demands, now. Right! Sigh. Every time you open the cover on this book, the homicidal, authoritarian progressives are shouting their hatred, and desire to murder from the rooftops. Take them at their word. British university students are too stupid to actually read books all the way through . . .4/16/2016 University students are struggling to read entire books . . . but they can pike about, whinge, kvetch, and then punt. Brilliant. "Students have reacted to claims from university professors that they struggle to read books from cover to cover by admitting it is true - but insisting it's because universities don't give them enough time to finish them. University academics caused a furore this week by claiming many students found the thought of reading books all the way to the end “daunting”, due to shorter attention spans and an inability to focus on complex philosophies." Sorry, not true it's not the amount of time, its how the students are assessed. It's the testing! "Minesh Parekh, Education Officer at University of Sheffield Students’ Union said: “It’s just not true that students find reading whole books too challenging. The reason some students don’t read whole books isn’t because they struggle to, but because of problems with how we’re assessed, and the over-emphasis universities place on assessment.'" Exactly what is standing between these lazy kids and reading the book, testing isn't that happens long after the book is read. No, it pure unadulterated laziness, and a desire for the credential, the degree, but not the education, the education requires hard work, thought, and diligence. Just give them the degree in exchange for a few thousand quid. Forget that, forget that, it's all wrong. "Lizzy Kelly, a history student at Sheffield added: “Students might be more inclined to read what academics want them to if our curricula weren’t overwhelmingly white, male and indicative of a society and structures we fundamentally disagree with because they don't work for us.” Ah, yes, too many white males, and too indicative of society, and structures the students fundamentally disagree with. I have an idea! Give the test, and fail those who earned the F, and give an A to those who earned the A. And so on and so forth. Then let the chip fall where they will. Return college to what it used to be, and should be today, and let the crappy, lazy, whingey, pikers collect their F's on the way to dropping out. Is this really as difficult as you are making it? If you childish prats are going to wheedle, do it like a pro, here is the seminar, free: An Overheated Climate Alarm
. . . there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13:42. The climate alarmists, it's always wailing, gnashing of teeth, sack cloth, and ashes, and above all the Earth as a furnace of fire. I am usually exhausted after reading anything from these madmen racing about with their hair on fire. Lomborg, as usual, drops the boom. "The Obama administration released a new report this week that paints a stark picture of how climate change will affect human health. Higher temperatures, we’re told, will be deadly—killing “thousands to tens of thousands” of Americans. The report is subtitled “A Scientific Assessment,” presumably to underscore its reliability. But the report reads as a political sledgehammer that hypes the bad and skips over the good. It also ignores inconvenient evidence—like the fact that cold kills many more people than heat." But science is not the point of this the President's missive, control is the point, control of you, and your money. "Consider a rigorous study published last year in the journal Lancet that examined temperature-related mortality around the globe. The researchers looked at data on more than 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 areas: cold countries like Canada and Sweden, temperate nations like Spain, South Korea and Australia, and subtropical and tropical ones like Brazil and Thailand. The Lancet researchers found that about 0.5%—half a percent—of all deaths are associated with heat, not only from acute problems like heat stroke, but also increased mortality from cardiac events and dehydration. But more than 7% of deaths are related to cold—counting hypothermia, as well as increased blood pressure and risk of heart attack that results when the body restricts blood flow in response to frigid temperatures. In the U.S. about 9,000 people die from heat each year but 144,000 die from cold." Give them 5 minutes and they will be arguing it will cause cold, and that will kill as well. It is an unfalsifiable theory, it causes everything, it is responsible for everything. A Comically long "Complete" List Of Things Supposedly Caused By Global Warming. Geez, after that I need a nap. I think the global alarmist have been busy! "In pushing too hard for the case that global warming is universally bad for everything, the administration’s report undermines the reasonable case for climate action. Focusing on only the bad side of the ledger destroys academic and political credibility. Although there is a robust intellectual debate on heat and cold deaths, there is a much simpler way to gauge whether people in the U.S. consider higher temperatures preferable: Consider where they move. Migration patterns show people heading for warm states like Texas and Florida, not snowy Minnesota and Michigan. That’s the smart move. A 2009 paper in the Review of Economics and Statistics estimates that because people seek out warmth, slightly more die from the heat, but many fewer die from the cold. In total, the actions of these sun-seekers avert 4,600 deaths in the U.S. each year. You won’t be surprised to learn that the study wasn’t mentioned in the administration’s half-baked report." We discussed this issue this past week! Read the whole article, and then buy a few of Lomborg's books, they are very well worth a read (Mr. Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, is the author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” (Cambridge Press, 2001) and “Cool It” ( Knopf, 2007)). Laundry Detergent From Jessica Alba’s Honest Co. Contains Ingredient It Pledged to Avoid
This seems like a problem designed for a Hollywood celebrity to handle. And so we have the attractive, vacuous Hollywood type caught by the short hairs because: Chemistry! Acting is so much easier than chemistry! I wish I could get excited by this but really this is little more than Whole Foods whingers parading their lack of intellectual rigor for all to see. Funny but dull, like so much of the trendy hipster/vegan movement. Luckily, Portlandia is full of these mincing pretenders. 25 Hilarious Conversations Overheard At Whole Foods Locally we have New Seasons, which is full of the same silly people. It is almost worth a trip over just to listen to them drop inanities. But the cost of food is so rarified I am unwilling to pay 2x the going price in other stores. The family does like some of their quick fix skewers, and sausages, and they have a deli counter filled with food which is actually edible, but beyond that I just look and cringe. 14 Stupid Things at Whole Foods Good luck Jessica, I expect you should be able to unwind this whirlwind. |
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