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The drop started five or six years before COVID.

I'm not sure Harvard and Columbia falling to a tie for sixth and tenth respectively qualify as a "plunge". But the piece itself uses "slipped" which seems appropriate.

As a holder of a Ph.D. and a career spent in academia I'm certainly not anti-"expert". But is it just me or has the pace recently increased at which long-standing expert conclusions are being overturned or at least seriously questioned?

"More than a hundred epidemiological studies — some involving tens of thousands of people — have linked depression, low socioeconomic status and other sources of psychological stress to an increase in cancer risk, and to a worse prognosis for people who already have the disease. However, this literature is full of contradictions, especially in the first case.""

If it holds up, this could be quite a breakthrough.

Pretty remarkable.

As well as cutting down on the calories, those taking GLP-1RAs were most likely to reduce the amount of processed foods, sugary drinks, refined grains (such as white bread), and beef in their diet. Consumption of fruits, leafy greens, and water all went up, however.

From my perspective this is a quite sensible ranking.

As usual Eva Moskowitz is 100% correct. 

And my older daughter writes:

You have to serve all components of the meal to get reimbursed for the meal even if the vegetable and milk go straight into the trash. (This waste problem can be mitigated if you have a student like my one of my goofy delights who would drink as many milks as he could get his hands on, despite being lactose intolerant, just so he could fart all through math class after lunch.)

With some caution about "breakthrough" in regard to Alzheimer's. this certainly sounds quite encouraging. (The author of the piece is a cardiologist and scientist who has "340,000 citations [and a] 244 h-index".)

Very much related: "Alzheimer's disease could be detected 20 years before symptoms appear, study suggests".

Darn right it is. Cali has will almost certainly ask for federal money to help fix their problems.

See also "California Governor Gavin Newsom  Makes Desperate Bid for Relevancy and Money," "Feds Investigating Los Angeles Homeless Industrial Complex Spending - Here's How We Got Here," and "Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline".

By Selena Zito, one of our few remaining honorable and competent journalists, and popularizer of the terrific formulation, "“the press takes him [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” 

". . . the new family of climate scenarios will be released with absolutely no formal evaluation of their plausibility or feasibility."

News from my former employer.

North Carolina State University professor Stephen Porter is celebrating after his university ditched DEI in its strategic plan following his formal complaint.

More pie-in-the-sky from the Left.

See also "The Left’s new ‘Abundance Agenda’ is a farce".

All three in April 2025 are lower than in January 2025. Make of that what you will. (And here and here.)

Standardized testing is imperfect but usually better than the other ways colleges have of evaluating applicants.

An argument that President Trump is trying to do, on the USA, a workout.

A workout is an informal, out-of-court agreement between a financially distressed company and its creditors to restructure debt, avoid default, and prevent bankruptcy altogether. It’s like a preemptive negotiation to resolve problems without going through the courts.

In instance in which experts' former advice not only seems to be wrong but 180 degrees wrong.

Truth from a quintessential punk rocker and the lead vocalist of the Sex Pistols.

"Crazy" as in excellent.

Answer.

Message: be careful what you say around toddlers.

The Door continues its tradition of providing you with answers to Life's Most Important Questions.

The Joe Cocker version.

And Mr. Cooper exclaimed "That's impossible".

Quite a beat from The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra.

I believe it: "Long-term studies show stable loneliness levels over decades, not an 'epidemic'."