Saturday, November 7, 2020

In the news, Tuesday, October 27, 2020


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from The Christian Post
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American nondenominational Evangelical Christian newspaper in Washington, D.C.

Wayne Grudem: John Piper has been a friend – a good and faithful friend – for more than 40 years. I agree with probably 98% of everything he has written and said during his entire ministry. But he and I have reached different conclusions about this year’s presidential election.

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from Healthline
Health & Wellness Website

A new study that looked at 216 people with COVID-19 found that 80 percent didn’t have adequate levels of vitamin D in their blood. The study also found that people who had both COVID-19 and lower vitamin D levels also had a higher number of inflammatory markers such as ferritin and D-dimer, which have been linked to poor COVID-19 outcomes. A different study found that COVID-19 patients who had adequate vitamin D levels had a 51.5 percent lower risk of dying from the disease and a significant reduced risk for complications. Medical experts theorize that maintaining adequate vitamin D levels may help lower risk or aid recovery from severe COVID-19 for some people, though more testing is needed.

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from Medium
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  MIXED, online social journalism publishing platform

“What bullshit essentially misrepresents is neither the state of affairs to which it refers nor the beliefs of the speaker concerning that state of affairs. Those are what lies misrepresent, by virtue of being false. Since bullshit need not be false, it differs from lies in its misrepresentational intent. The bullshitter may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, either about the facts or about what he takes the facts to be. What he does necessarily attempt to deceive us about is his enterprise. His only indispensably distinctive characteristic is that in a certain way he misrepresents what he is up to.... When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

As much as I love tradition and respect the past, the evolving nature of both technology and culture means that some old-school traditions have to go away. Even ones I revered. They just don’t work anymore. That brings us to last Sunday. An endorsement ran in our newspaper that brought up a bunch of traditional notions. There’s the one about the line between church and state that demands newsrooms don’t have anything to do with editorial pages and certainly would never help with those kinds of dark arts. Another is that newspaper endorsements simply represent the “newspaper,” not saying whose opinion it is or who wrote it.

Fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh raged on Tuesday, unimpeded by a U.S.-brokered cease-fire, while Armenia and Azerbaijan traded blame for the deal’s quick unraveling.

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