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Podcast for 6 April 2015

Started by MrBogosity, April 05, 2015, 05:59:58 PM

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April 05, 2015, 05:59:58 PM
[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2015-04-06.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Host: Dave Turcotte https://www.patreon.com/user?u=384100

News of the Bogus:
31:09 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Nick Bilton http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/style/could-wearable-computers-be-as-harmful-as-cigarettes.html

48:32 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Social Justice Warriors http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-hiding-from-scary-ideas.html
1:07:22 - Tag: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2nlmwx&s=8
This Week's Quote: "The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." —Albert Einstein
April 05, 2015, 07:16:06 PM #1
Regarding the safe spaces.  Seriously, click that link and read the description of them.  Tell me they WEREN'T taking the piss out of them.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537
April 06, 2015, 07:43:48 AM #2
On the subject of RF exposure, I looked up the outcome of a very old concern that traffic radar might cause testicular cancer in the police officers using it. (Due to the fact that some older models of hand-held units didn't have a good way to shut them down quickly and easily, and the lack of holders for them often resulted in the officer sticking them between their legs when they clocked someone speeding and went to pursue.  The hand-held units, at least at that time, were only suitable for use while stopped.) There really was at least once cluster of testicular cancer among police who had been using hand-held units in just this way for years.

The study, which came out literally 20 years ago, concluded that because of the relatively small number of officers, the lack of records in almost all departments that would indicate the timing and quantity of exposure, and the lack of records in most states for cancer diagnoses, it wasn't possible to do a valid epidemiological study.

They did, however, recommend things like true activation switches should be present on all units so they wouldn't radiate when not actually  (this has the additional benefit from a law-enforcement point of view of making radar detectors much less effective), the beam of a fixed-mount device should not be directed at any of the vehicle's occupants, and that a hand-held device should never be pointed at the user or any metal surface in the car while active to avoid direct or reflected exposure.

There is one known and one strongly suspected kind of EM emission in relatively long wavelengths that causes problems, but these are direct exposure to extremely high intensity RF signals by standing within a few feet of a high-power (multi-kilowatt at the least) broadcast antenna (which basically only BASE jumpers, who are idiots anyway, would ever do), or repeated, direct exposure to a device that simulates the EM pulse of a nuclear explosive.  (The later is strongly suspected of being able to cause a rare form of leukemia, but as only two people are known to have ever been exposed to numerous pulses from such a device the fact that they both developed the same rare leukemia could just as easily be a coincidence or related to some unrelated exposure they both got working on some other military electronics projects.  Unfortunately, there is some really noxious stuff used in some electronics, but mostly just in military stuff.)
April 06, 2015, 08:01:09 AM #3
Quote from: evensgrey on April 06, 2015, 07:43:48 AMhere really was at least once cluster of testicular cancer among police who had been using hand-held units in just this way for years.

You expect clusters in randomized data. That doesn't mean anything.
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