B Kernick

“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?” - John Maynard Keynes. ** moving to Bluesky

[B Kernick @b_kernick]

Did you know that 73.6% of all statistics are made up??

[B Kernick @b_kernick]

Also realizing most supplements probably have limited evidence and small effects, so I might be grasping at straws.

My doctor just switched me to sertraline and we’re ramping slowly, only at 25 mg so far. I’m also leaning on workouts and sauna while things settle.

Thoughts?.

[B Kernick @b_kernick]

Hey @caulfieldtim

This past month I’ve been dealing with some anxiety and I trust you more than my algorithm, my supplement aisle, and my 2 am YouTube spiral combined.

What does the actual evidence say about L-theanine, magnesium, and glycine for anxiety or sleep?

[B Kernick @b_kernick]

Hey @CaulfieldTim
Also, after watching this video:

https://t.co/IuWDVKy4Ud?...

I’m curious about creatine and beet juice, which seems to have become the miracle drink at every gym.

Would love your take on what’s promising vs hype.

[B Kernick @b_kernick]

@caulfieldtim
After watching this video https://t.co/8eZEyLbSTu

Im wondering about creatine and beet juice, which seems to have become the miracle potions at the gym.

Would love your science-first take on what’s promising, what’s overhyped, and what’s just expensive urine.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

So far, the only deterrent Putin needs for Trump is a telephone.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Wow. This is really getting creepy.

Hanging enormous portraits of the President from government buildings?

Jay is right, this is North Korean aesthetic. It would horrify the founders of the American republic and, I suspect, any previous occupant of the office.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

David Eby is objectively a much bigger threat to confederation, and to the rule of law, than Alberta separatists.

Hard core Alberta separatists are a tiny minority of the population. Their “movement” is made up largely of grifters and cranks. They just won 1% of the vote in the Crowfoot by-election. Despite widespread, justifiable frustration with Ottawa amongst Albertans, there is zero chance a majority would actually vote to leave Canada and become a separate, landlocked country.

Eby, on the other hand, is actively undermining the Canadian Constitution with his ideological hostility to pipelines, and doing real damage to national unity and prosperity in the process.

Section 92(10) of the Constitution Act plainly grants authority over interprovincial infrastructure, such as pipelines, to the federal government.

When the BC NDP government challenged this, asserting a power to regulate the Trans Mountain Pipeline, both the BC Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada *unanimously* struck down this ridiculous effort. The Courts re-affirmed exclusive federal authority over interprovincial pipelines.

Following that decision, the late Premier John Horgan told me that “the law is clear, we are downing tools, and we will do nothing to obstruct the completion of TMX.”

However, he also warned me that his party included a “mud hut wing” of green extremists, which I took to include Eby.

Eby’s a lawyer. He knows what the Constitution says. He knows what the top Courts said recently and unanimously on this subject. But he doesn’t care because he is, and always has been, an ideological zealot. For him the Constitution, the rule of law, national unity and prosperity must all be subordinated to his ideology.

He doesn’t care that the vast majority of First Nations in Western Canada support responsible resource development, and are increasingly partners in major projects like pipelines. That’s because as a hard left Vancouver lawyer, he holds a condescending, outdated view that First Nations must be instrumentalized as moral cover for urban green activists. The brilliant former Haisla Chief Councillor and current MP @ellisbross calls this “eco-colonialism.”

He doesn’t care that a super majority of British Colombians support an oil pipeline through Northern BC https://t.co/Ot9RUev92m

He doesn’t care that such a pipeline would generate ~$30 billion in export revenue for the Canadian economy annually, roughly equivalent to all of Canada’s lumber exports; or that it would create thousands of long term, good paying jobs - disproportionately for indigenous people.

And he doesn’t care that his illegal, unconstitutional vow to block an interprovincial pipeline will make us more dependant on the United States, while undermining national unity amongst patriotic Canadians who correctly believe that confederation is predicated in part on the ability of landlocked provinces to export what they produce.

Eby is again demonstrating that he’s not really on Team Canada.

After all, this is the only Premier who missed the most important first ministers meeting in decades when he decided that wandering around Tokyo convenience stores mattered more than negotiating an agreement on internal trade. https://t.co/xZMbta49lL

And he’s the Premier who gave a multi billion dollar ship building contract to a subsidized Chinese shipyard linked to the Communist People’s Liberation Army, rather than helping to create ship building jobs here in Canada.

Pity that the great province of British Columbia is being led by a myopic left wing activist who is more focussed on pandering to his party’s “mud hut wing” than on protecting national unity, the Constitution, the rule of law, and the future of Canada’s economy.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

CTV NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Canada can be an energy superpower if it gets out of its own way: Enbridge CEO https://t.co/2AW7GZx5jQ

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

When Canada’s First Ministers gathered in June for an historic summit on knocking down internal trade barriers and creating “one Canadian economy,” David Eby decided not to attend.

Instead, he was promoting snacks at Tokyo convenience stores.

Pretty good reflection of his understanding of economic growth.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Trump is a treasonous convicted felon!!!

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

All of this 👇🏼

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: After Zelensky and Trump cancelled their joint press conference moments ago, Zelensky reportedly left the White House, without signing the Minerals deal.

Trump has been in office for 39 days and the war is no closer to be finished. Trump is failing miserably, he knows it, and that's why he just had this tirade.

[John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton]

Trump and Vance have declared themselves to be on Russia's side in the Russo-Ukraine war.  This is a catastrophic mistake for America's national security.  And let's be clear:  Trump and Vance now personally own that policy.  It is not the view of a majority of Americans of either or no political party.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

Oh no. We should make sure the ivermectin cures cancer bros are ok…

[Bruce MacKinnon @CH_Cartoon]

I drew this last November 26th knowing full well no self-respecting family newspaper in the country would be likely to print it. I was right. But given the events of this weekend, I’m gonna to let ‘er rip anyway.

#USA #Canada #tariffs @realDonaldTrump

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“[Tariffs] will drive the cost of everything up. In other words, it will be paid for by American consumers. I mean, why would you want to get in a fight with your allies over this?” asks Sen. Mitch McConnell. https://t.co/sZ8KLQcijQ

[B Kernick @b_kernick]

@RealTimers @billmaher @CaseyMeansMD @ChrisCuomo @mkhammer @HBO @StreamOnMax @billmaher, having Casey Means was interesting, but she veered into some RFK Jr. and anti-science territory. How about giving science-based medicine a real voice next time? Invite experts like @caufieldtim or @stevennovella from @ScienceBasedMed who prioritize evidence. #RealTime