Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny and cold with a high of 7. Sunrise is 7:20 and sunset is 4:51, for 9 hours, 31 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 70.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 2007, the four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic Pole of Inaccessibility research station for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
On 1.13, FREE WHITEWATER posted on Debunking Grifters and Crackpots on Social Media (“On social media, principally TikTok or Instagram, there are thousands of accounts that that make wholly false claims that ordinary foods and products contain poisons: did you know that?, look what I’ve found, can you believe?“).
This libertarian blogger followed the next day with A Bit More on Expertise:
a responsible community, and responsible political leadership, should at the least allow those with a strong expertise or understanding to speak responsively to others’ claims (especially others’ tendentious claims). While any resident should be allowed to stand at the lectern and speak, afterward members of the government should be able to reply to unsupported claims or weak arguments. Residents should be able to speak; a responsible board or council should allow members of the government to reply after all residents have finished speaking.
I’m not writing here about general, non-agenda public comment, but about residents’ specific comments on points that are on the agenda.
I was not writing about myself here, plainly, as
this libertarian blogger has not described himself on this site as an expert in some particular field. FREE WHITEWATER is, by design, a website for all readers of ‘commentary on politics, policy, and popular culture, published from Whitewater, Wisconsin since 2007.’ I have a profession, but this website isn’t designed merely for that profession. (FREE WHITEWATER would look very different if were otherwise.) It’s meant to be as it is. And so, and so, I’m not referring to myself as an expert in anything that follows.
Debunking Grifters and Crackpots on Social Media highlighted the nutritionist (as nutritionist) Dr. Jessica Knurick refuting false claims about food. I’ve embedded another example below, where Dr. Idrees Mughal debunks a claim about protein:
Obviously, recent posts at FREE WHITEWATER highlighting these Instagram Reels are about more than nutrition. More than one application of the Reels’ method comes to mind.
They’ve a concise, skillful method of refutation, and satisfying.
Dog and owner saved after falling through frozen lake: