Oh yes. I noticed. This DISinfographic violates every rule any professional analyst has ever learned about proper, unbiased graph design. This graphic isn't just 'bad'. It is deliberately and grossly deceptive, and given the nature of the article I would have to say that it was done on purpose. Shame on the CDC…

You earn the tin-foil hat by making goofy statements like "it is impossible to be healthy eating food from a grocery store". That is nonsense. Anyone can be perfectly healthy and have the proper weight while eating grocery store food. I'm 43 years old and I am 6'1" and 169 pounds. I'm healthy as a horse, have…

Because there are a lot of stupid conspiracy theorists out there that for some asinine reason think "processsed" = "bad for you". That's absolute ridiculousness, as a lot of the processed food is about a BILLION times 'better' for you than anything you eat in nature. It comes from Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"…

Thier portions are large because movie theatres do not make money from ticket sales - they make it from concessions, and the concessions are priced accordingly. Now - if you walked into a movie theatre and bought a "small" popcorn at a price of $4.75, exactly how much popcorn would you expect to be in it knowing that…

Well, the CDC is concerned about things like Diabetes and Cancer which are LINKED to obesity, but obesity is not a disease. It is not unusual for the CDC to make recommendations about causal factors related to diseases. IE ... I would not be surprised by the CDC making recommendations about mosquito repellants as a…

I didn't say YOU said the 50s were a magical time. That's what the CDC is saying. :) Relax. But there WERE fat people back then - and it was a LOT of them. Not as many (percentagewise) as today perhaps, but they existed. Fatties aren't something that only happened in the year 2000. They've been around a long…

Yes, the CDC implying that people are fat in 2012 because of the size of restaurant portions is ridiculous - especially when implying that the 1950s were somehow some sort of magical time in history when everyone ate healthily and no one was ever fat. Bull. People ate crap in the 50s too, and there were fatties all…

Yeah, I'm a statistician by profession and this CDC "infographic" violates about every single ethical and professional rule for TLG (tables, legends, graphs) in the book. It is visually deceptive (check out the scale of the drinks!). It doesn't cite any data whatsoever. It is clearly agenda driven. It is just a…

I'm calling bullcrap on this - at least with the burgers and fries. Sodas were bottled in 6 ounce bottles, that's true, but at restaurants a fountain drink was typically presented in either an 8 ounce glass or a 12 ounce cup. 2 ounces of fries? Really? Who are they expecting to believe this? I grew up in the…

It'd be more accurate to day that the cost of goods for solar power are not commensurate with its productivity. Economics is a harsh judge of product viability, and solar power simply is not economical. When you have to spend $35,000 in order to save only $110 a month it means you will need over 26 years before you…

Ew. There are enough drawbacks to solar power already without making the device ugly to boot. :P What's next? Solar panel wind chimes? Solar panel big earrings? Solar panel blinds on your window? You know - just because you CAN stick solar panels on crap doesn't mean you should...

This. Too many young, ignernt (and old ignernt) people hit the roof over stories like this based on purely thier own lack of knowledge. This guy earned his money and PAID his income taxes on it. AFTER being taxed, he left the country and moved his money. Why should he pay capital gains taxes when he isnt' a…

The U.S. government is 3 hairs and some air away from Greece the way it is spending right now. It's unsustainable and everyone knows it. Give us 2 years. Maybe 3 to 5, and we'll be Greece. No question about it. Massive cuts are the only solution. There's time, but not much.

Well - quite frankly - I don't blame anybody who uses any sort of loophole they can find in order to keep the Federal Government from obtaining one red cent more than absolutely necessary. The US Federal Government is the most wasteful, irresponsibly run, bloated, incompetent organizations the world has ever seen. …

Hmm - good. I know that a little piece of every environmentalist's soul dies whenever they see a tree go down, but come on. Trees are THE #2 most 'renewable' resource on the planet, second only to grass. In 10 years every tree that was knocked down will be well on its way to having a perfectly healthy, new tree…

Take the doll and tell me where 'facts' and 'reality' touched you. :) I have no axe to grind. I simply dislike it when people only tell half a story. Anyone who says, "Hey - all you have to do man is like go in with 100 neighbors man and it's totally affordable man" is fooling themselves. If you think Spain's…

Massive subsidies paid for the panels, not the 'townsfolk'. Spain's government went all-in on solar and broke thier economy doing it. Now they have tons of solar panels and no money, so they are welching on thier promised subsidies and stiffing the people who were supposedly going to get 'free' power. In the…

Ah - if it was really that easy then it would have been done already. The fact is that there have been entire nations (Spain) who have tried to make the solar 'thing' work, and it has been a spectacular economic failure.

"It's no secret that conservative minded people are intolerant of other people's views, beliefs, or differences (just ask one, they'll tell you)."

The economics of Solar power do not scale up. The cost for powering 50 to 100 homes is proportionally the same as powering 5 to 10. What Spain did was massively subsidize people for building the kinds of plants you're talking about, but by no means was it some sort of Communist 'sharing' system. Wealthy private…