Tylenol Isn't So Safe, But At Least It Works, Right? | American Council on Science and Health

Tylenol Isn't So Safe, But At Least It Works, Right? | American Council on Science and Health
"(Part 2/2) See: Is Tylenol 'By Far the Most Dangerous Drug Ever Made?'

I'm not a big fan of Tylenol, which becomes rather obvious if you read the first part of this two-part series. 

For a drug that is so widely used, it is quite easy to consume enough, accidentally or otherwise, to take enough to suffer a toxic overdose due to irreversible liver damage.

But drugs cannot be judged by safety alone. 

Both the good and the bad - benefits and risks - must be taken into account to get the true measure of the quality of a drug. 

So if Tylenol isn't all that safe, you might expect that, at the very least, it should work well. Otherwise, why would so many people be taking it?

That's the $64,000 question, and here's the answer. 

In reality, Tylenol doesn't work very well at all, and there is plenty of evidence to back this up, especially in systematic Cochrane Reviews - highly regarded, evidence-based reviews that carefully evaluate the quality of data in multiple studies. Here are some representative analyses..."

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$700 Billion Unpaid Mortgage Balances In Hurricane Harvey And Irma Disaster Areas | The Daily Sheeple

$700 Billion Unpaid Mortgage Balances In Hurricane Harvey And Irma Disaster Areas | The Daily Sheeple:
"Even as the damage from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is still being tallied, a preliminary assessment released last week by Black Knight Financial Services estimated that as many as 300,000 borrowers in the vicinity of Houston could become delinquent on their loans and 160,000 could become seriously delinquent, or more than 90 days past due.
That number is roughly four times the original prediction because new disaster zones were designated and more homes flooded when officials released water from reservoirs to protect dams, according to CNBC’s Diana Olick.
In total, the number of mortgaged properties in Texas disaster zones is 1.18 million, with Black Knight adding that Houston disaster zones contain twice as many mortgaged properties than Katrina zones, with four times the unpaid principal balance.
...What about Irma?
According to a preliminary analysis by Black Knight released today, Florida FEMA-designated disaster areas related to Hurricane Irma include a whopping 3.1 million mortgaged properties.
...Combining the preliminary estimates for both Harvey and Irma suggests...$696 billion in notional mortgage values, which banks could be on the hook for if current occupiers decide to simply walk away..."
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EXPOSED: Hillary Clinton Moved 800K From Her Campaign To Help Fund ANTIFA

EXPOSED: Hillary Clinton Moved 800K From Her Campaign To Help Fund ANTIFA
"Hillary, who long during the campaign trail condemned “dark-money” Super-PACs, has funneled over 800K from her Campaign over to one of these very same outfits. 
It has been revealed that the failed presidential candidate’s Super-PAC, “Onward Together”, is heavily backing “resistance” and Alt-Left extremist groups such as ANTIFA.

In building investigations, Daily Caller first discovered that Hillary transferred a mass sum of money from her campaign over to Onward Together:

Clinton transferred $800,000 from her failed 2016 presidential campaign to Onward Together shortly before announcing the group’s launch in May, documents the campaign filed with the FEC reveal..."

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Democrats want to cancel the health policies of 180 million Americans | New York Post

Democrats want to cancel the health policies of 180 million Americans | New York Post:

"That is, more than half the country — 180 million people — would have to say good-bye to their current plans (which they’re mostly happy with) and switch to BernieCare. (Most of the other half is already on some form of government health plan.)

Think of it as medical care run by, say, Motor Vehicles. Or the Veterans Administration: Long lines. Dangerously long waits for treatment. Shoddy service. Scarce resources. Fewer choices . . ."

In Australia, as Renewables Surge the Price of Electricity Doubles - Hit & Run : Reason.com

In Australia, as Renewables Surge the Price of Electricity Doubles - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"The price of electricity is soaring in Australia largely because of mandated adoption of renewable power generation.
...In an op/ed, "Green Madness: Australia Has Gone from Cheapest to Most Expensive Power," in The Australian, Flinders University economist Judith Sloan details what has happened to electricity prices as the government has enacted its Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme..."
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History for September 19

History for September 19 - On-This-Day.com:
Sir William Golding 1911, Adam West 1928 - Actor (TV: "Batman"), Mike Royko 1932


Brian Epstein 1934, Bill Medley 1940 - Singer (Righteous Brothers), "Mama" Cass Elliott (The Mamas and Papas) 1943


1777 - The Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.


1876 - Melville R. Bissell patented the carpet sweeper.


1942 - The first advertisement to announce Little Golden Books appeared in Publishers Weekly.


1955 - Argentina President Juan Peron was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.


1957 - The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test. The test took place in the Nevada desert.


1959 - Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.


1970 - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered on CBS-TV.


1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use :-) in an online message.

NY Times reporter slammed after saying boy mowing White House lawn sends bad signal on child labor | Fox News

NY Times reporter slammed after saying boy mowing White House lawn sends bad signal on child labor | Fox News:

"A former New York Times labor reporter has been slammed on social media for a snarky tweet hitting the White House for letting an 11-year-old boy mow the Rose Garden lawn last week.

Steven Greenhouse, who worked for the Times for 31 years and still writes for the paper on occasion, took issue with the feel-good story of the boy, Frank Giaccio, of Falls Church, Va., who showed up at the White House Friday to cut the grass at the invitation of President Trump."

Articles: New Hillary Emails Warrant Special Prosecutor

Articles: New Hillary Emails Warrant Special Prosecutor:

"New emails unearthed by Judicial Watch confirm that the Clinton Foundation was in fact a pay-to-play influence peddling operation far more worthy of a special prosecutor than imaginary Russians colluding under Trump Administration beds. It is time for President Trump to keep the promise he made in the presidential debate to indict Hillary Clinton for her crimes:"

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Boob-tube-----MSNBC Reporter: Hillary's not used to buying things for herself

Articles: If I Were the Devil, I'd Enact Hate Speech Laws

Articles: If I Were the Devil, I'd Enact Hate Speech Laws:
"Hate speech laws are loved not only by the do-gooders who demand them. If I were the Devil, I'd love laws that limit free speech, too.

"If I Were the Devil," a famous monologue originally written by Paul Harvey in 1965 that he reworked over a 20-year period, didn't mention hate speech laws.  
But listen to his final version, and feel the chill of its truths when you realize just how much Satan has achieved.

Then imagine how much more the Devil could accomplish if he could silence, under the banner of a moral imperative to limit speech, not just Paul Harvey, but all Christians.

Christian speech, like all speech here in America, though (for the time being, at least), is protected by the Constitution from the Devil and anyone else who'd like it silenced.  
Christianity is also protected, and it's no coincidence that religion and speech are mentioned in the same amendment..."
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Yes, Hillary, the Media Did Help Trump Win. So Did You - Reason.com

Yes, Hillary, the Media Did Help Trump Win. So Did You - Reason.com:
"Former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is back doing what she does best: selling books. 
What Happened, her newest, doesn't feature a question.
It has answers.
Clinton blames the FBI.
She blames sexism and fake news.
She blames the "godforsaken" Electoral College and the "deep currents of anger and resentment" running through society.
She also blames Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for out-promising her at every turn.
She probably blames clandestine Russian mind-control laser beams for persuading tens of millions of Americans that she was nothing more than a calculating, deceptive and insipid career politician.
And she blames the media. Political journalists, writes Clinton, "can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump."
Now, hearing a Democrat argue that the institutional media wasn't accommodating enough in helping her win an election is, I admit, a bit jarring.
Support from journalists is so embedded in the Democratic Party's strategy that any negative coverage—even something as unavoidable as writing about an unprecedented FBI investigation into a leading presidential candidate—must be quashed..."

Dallas schools to consider new monikers for buildings named after Franklin, Jefferson, Madison - The College Fix

Dallas schools to consider new monikers for buildings named after Franklin, Jefferson, Madison - The College Fix:
"This past Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District School Board took up the matter of renaming some of its schools, identifying 21 with “some sort of Confederate tie.”
Superintendent Michael Hinojosa noted four schools were “priorities”: William L. Cabell, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Albert Sidney Johnston.
According to NBC-5, “[t]he board seemed to agree with starting with the four schools recommended.”
“I think the board, in essence, is pretty much together on this. Just, do we waive the current policy or not, and I want an expedient timeline. I’m looking at about two months,” Trustee Joyce Foreman said.
However, what the NBC-5 report doesn’t mention is the list of recommended schools includes the names of three prominent Founding Fathers — Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin.
...“Sam Houston?!?! William B Travis??? Now we oppose the Texas Revolution?”
“James S Hogg was never a part of the civil war. Please make sure you guys study up on your Texas history.”..."

Communism's Barbaric Cruelty By the Numbers - Reason.com

Communism's Barbaric Cruelty By the Numbers - Reason.com:

"For example, the Russian Empire was always seen as backward and tyrannical. As Orlando Figes noted in A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924, "from the perspective of the individual, it could be said that the single greatest difference between Russia and the West... was that in Western Europe citizens were generally free to do as they pleased so long as their activities had not been specifically prohibited by the state, while the people of Russia were not free to do anything unless the state had given them specific permission to do it. No subject of the Tsar, regardless of his rank or class, could sleep securely in his bed in the knowledge that his house would not be subject to a search, or he himself to arrest."

So, how bad was the backward and tyrannical Tsarist regime that was so reviled by its more sophisticated Western neighbors? Between 1825 and 1917, Stéphane Courtois notes in his introduction to The Black Book of Communism, "tsarism carried out 6,321 political executions (most of them during the revolution of 1905-1907), whereas in two months of official 'Red Terror' in the fall of 1918 Bolshevism achieved some 15,000." That's one way to put communism in perspective."

Their new scheme to force "mass transit" on us-----Transit becomes Amazon bid focus | Crain's Detroit Business

Transit becomes Amazon bid focus | Crain's Detroit Business

• Good transit options are a requirement for Amazon HQ2.
• That's spurring local leaders to talk about going back to voters in 2018.
• RTA ballot issue failed last year when Macomb County voted strongly against it.

The race to position metro Detroit for Amazon's second headquarters has injected a new sense of urgency into addressing the region's disjointed public transportation systems as leaders contemplate going back to voters next year with a different regional transit proposal.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and the leaders of Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Macomb counties had already been in talks for months about how to revise the regional transit proposal that voters narrowly defeated last November.

And then online retail behemoth Amazon dropped its request for proposals that said access to mass transit options and connections to an international airport were critical components to its plans to plant up to 50,000 workers in a city outside of its hometown of Seattle..."

Teachers tackle white nationalism, other hot issues in the classroom | MLive.com

Teachers tackle white nationalism, other hot issues in the classroom | MLive.com
"YPSILANTI, MI - As the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August put white nationalism center stage in national discussion, teachers in Washtenaw County and across the country wondered how they would talk to their students about what happened.
Lynne Settles, an art teacher at Ypsilanti Community High School, knew she would offer her students the same thing she had before in similar situations: the chance to process their feelings through art.
...Now in the second week of the school year, Settles said she's still establishing relationships with her students, and they haven't yet delved into a class discussion about the attacks in Charlottesville and President Donald Trump's controversial response that there was "blame on both sides" - the white nationalists and the counter-protesters - for the violence..."

Lunch video-----Factual Persuasion-The first book ever written about how to use the facts of Islam in persuasion and argument.

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Multiple Foreign Nationals Criminally Charged For US Election Fraud | Daily Wire

Multiple Foreign Nationals Criminally Charged For US Election Fraud | Daily Wire:

"A county-level grand jury in Ohio indicted several foreign nationals for election fraud related to the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.

Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien announced Thursday that the Franklin County Grand Jury returned indictments against seven foreign nationals who allegedly voted illegally in recent U.S. elections."

Washington Post's Dana Milbank Claims Donald Trump Is Killing Him

Washington Post's Dana Milbank Claims Donald Trump Is Killing Him
"Poor Dana Milbank. For all of his life he has been the picture of perfect health.
And then Donald Trump was elected President and completely ruined it to the point where he is now dying. Milbank discusses his health crises in his September 15 Washington Post column, President "Trump is killing me. 
Really.
President Trump is killing me.
No, really. 
He’s killing me.
I went for my annual physical last month, and, for the first time in my 49 years, I had to report that I’ve not been feeling well: fatigue, headaches, poor sleep, even some occasional chest pain.
My doctor checked my blood pressure, which had always been normal before: alarmingly high!
What could this mean?
I don’t smoke, I’m not obese and I swim most days.
...At this point, I arrived at a self-diagnosis: I was suffering from Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder, or THUD.
For almost five decades, I had been the picture of health, but eight months into Trump’s presidency, I was suddenly ailing.
Trump is the only variable, I told my doctor.
“He sure is variable,” my doc replied, endorsing the diagnosis..."

#1 Movie this week 1964-----(Original 1964) Mary Poppins Theatrical Trailer

Report: Standing Up to Pee Gives Boys an Unfair Advantage in Physics | Parenting

Report: Standing Up to Pee Gives Boys an Unfair Advantage in Physics | Parenting
"Yes, you read the headline correctly.
In the latest example of identity politics taken to its absurd end, three Australian college professors believe that "Playful urination practices – from seeing how high you can pee to games such as Peeball (where men compete using their urine to destroy a ball placed in a urinal) – may give boys an advantage over girls when it comes to physics."
The three professors didn't publish their thoughts on a satirical website like The Onion. 
Instead, they published on Tes, a website that provides "Educational materials, jobs, news, and courses from the world's best community of teachers and school leaders."
In the article, Anna Wilson, Kate Wilson, and David Low argue with a straight face that peeing standing up provides an advantage for boys over girls in learning physics..."

#1 This day 1960-----The Twist - Chubby Checker

Why the Trump dynasty will last sixteen years | Edward Luttwak

Why the Trump dynasty will last sixteen years | Edward Luttwak
"Could a Trump dynasty in the White House survive for three more elections?

In Washington DC, post-electoral stress disorder has generated a hysteria still amply manifest after eight months...
For all its vacuity, however, the hysteria is certainly understandable, because President Trump has defied all expectations by actually trying to do what he promised that he would try to do. 
But another reason is that the major cause of last November’s electoral outcome has remained mostly unexplored, even un­discovered. 
That is not due to intellectual laziness, but rather reflects the refusal of almost all commentators to contend with the political economy that determined the outcome of the election. 
...As it was, of course, the victory of the Democratic establishment merely ensured the victory of the only Sanders counterpart on the Repub­lican side with whom Sanders differed sharply on almost everything – except for the only thing that really mattered to both: the urgent need to mobilize government policies to increase American jobs and wages, in firm opposition to all the competing international and planetary priorities continuously proffered by elite Americans and their core institutions, along with Pope Francis and other leading figures.
In the dramatic crescendo of the 2016 elections that gave Trump to the United States and the world, very possibly for sixteen years (the President’s re-election committee is already hard at work, while his daughter Ivanka Trump is duly apprenticed in the White House that, according to my sources, she means to occupy as America’s first female President)...

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Al Franken Calls Pro-Life Organization A 'Hate Group' | Daily Wire

Al Franken Calls Pro-Life Organization A 'Hate Group' | Daily Wire:

"Minnesota senator and former SNL funny man Al Franken recently referred to the pro-life organization Alliance Defending Freedom as a "hate group.""

UC Berkeley Faculty Calls for Campus-Wide Boycott of Class:

Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UC Berkeley Faculty Calls for Campus-Wide Boycott of Class: Facult…:
"HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 
UC Berkeley Faculty Calls for Campus-Wide Boycott of Class: 
Faculty, staff claim ‘there are forms of speech that are not protected under the First Amendment.’

"Okay, you’ve persuaded me. 
Now, you’re fired for boycotting class. . . .
Meanwhile, I’ll repeat: 
If some evil genius on the right set out to destroy the reputation of the academy, he couldn’t have done better than the academy is doing for itself." 

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:30 am"