Welcome to the January 23, 2015 Post Game Show for Mojo Friday!
It isn't just original artists (Grace Potter, for example), who are hidden away by other artists performing their work. And it isn't just in music where this happens. As I saw TexDem's diary today, I had also seen this article on Slate.com: Texas Used Junk Science to Restrict Abortion. In this case, a discredited scientist, Vincent Rue, is advising experts who are to appear in court as to how they should present findings, offered feedback on written reports (which they hadn't seen yet), or refuted testimony, all on faulty and discredited work. And all with these other "experts" denying they'd had advice from him on these topics, only to be discredited themselves by their email trails when finally exposed.
Indeed, it appears that some courts appear to be quite happy with the "he said, she said" counterarguments, despite overwhelming evidence that what "she said" is backed up by tons of research and testimony, and what "he said" is, well, not. Indeed, the article says at one point,
"So it was a pleasant surprise when Judge Catharina Haynes—who voted to uphold other portions of H.B. 2 in an earlier challenge—questioned whether the law was medically justified. “You can kind of find an expert to say anything,” she told the state’s attorney. “Are we saying if you can find someone in the world to say we need marble floors in an abortion clinic, then that would be good enough to allow the Texas legislature to pass that?”
Sigh.
Liars. Cheaters. Frauds. Not Grace Potter. She's delightful in performance, and just wonderful with her song writing. It's these others that drive me bonkers, and we need to make sure our courts rule on evidence, not just weigh any expert as "credible" because they showed up and talked.
This applies to climate change too, of course!
Anyways, now for the fun
Today's Mojo Friday diary is Mojo Friday - Grace Potter - Edition
The Mojo Friday Postgame is a statistical analysis of the Mojo Friday diary that is posted every Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. ET. For further info please check out Jez's 'Official' "Mojo Friday Snecktionary" MKinTN posted a diary to help everyone achieve greater success called How to Succeed at Mojo Friday Without Really Trying.
Congratulations to:
Participation-est: jennyp, bjedward, bsegel, chimene, VClib
Chattiest: chimene
Generous-est: bsegel
Snecksiest (1): chimene, Captain C
Thanks to our most excellent host, TexDem!
Stats will be updated Sunday afternoon. Final stats will be published a week later.
First round stats, as of 4:09PM Eastern, are:
36 participants
268 comments
7.4 average comments per participant
4378 total mojo exchanged
48.2% average participation rate
username |
comments |
mojogiven |
comments + mojogiven |
partic% |
mojorecd |
recd diary? |
jennyp |
38 |
230 |
268 |
100.00% |
680 |
Yes |
bjedward |
1 |
267 |
268 |
100.00% |
22 |
Yes |
bsegel |
1 |
267 |
268 |
100.00% |
21 |
Yes |
chimene |
57 |
211 |
268 |
100.00% |
453 |
Yes |
VClib |
10 |
258 |
268 |
100.00% |
174 |
Yes |
Senor Unoball |
30 |
237 |
267 |
99.63% |
529 |
Yes |
anotherdemocrat |
1 |
260 |
261 |
97.39% |
20 |
Yes |
KellyB |
3 |
246 |
249 |
92.91% |
44 |
Yes |
kenwards |
6 |
220 |
226 |
84.33% |
85 |
Yes |
NoMoJoe |
0 |
216 |
216 |
80.60% |
0 |
Yes |
TexDem |
39 |
177 |
216 |
80.60% |
778 |
Author |
barefoot coyote |
2 |
212 |
214 |
79.85% |
37 |
Yes |
Ex Con |
2 |
206 |
208 |
77.61% |
48 |
Yes |
AllanTBG |
1 |
185 |
186 |
69.40% |
22 |
Yes |
4Freedom |
6 |
165 |
171 |
63.81% |
105 |
Yes |
CWinebrinner |
2 |
169 |
171 |
63.81% |
23 |
Yes |
Captain C |
20 |
145 |
165 |
61.57% |
389 |
Yes |
Eddie L |
1 |
152 |
153 |
57.09% |
23 |
Yes |
westyny |
3 |
114 |
117 |
43.66% |
57 |
Yes |
mungley |
10 |
102 |
112 |
41.79% |
199 |
Yes |
Texnance |
5 |
92 |
97 |
36.19% |
100 |
Yes |
ER Doc |
2 |
43 |
45 |
16.79% |
45 |
Yes |
Pilotshark |
3 |
40 |
43 |
16.04% |
39 |
Yes |
NCJim |
11 |
21 |
32 |
11.94% |
222 |
Yes |
Greasy Grant |
1 |
26 |
27 |
10.07% |
18 |
No |
dmhlt 66 |
1 |
25 |
26 |
9.70% |
23 |
Yes |
Reetz |
1 |
25 |
26 |
9.70% |
25 |
Yes |
VeloVixen |
8 |
17 |
25 |
9.33% |
148 |
Yes |
peregrinus |
1 |
22 |
23 |
8.58% |
20 |
Yes |
global citizen |
1 |
14 |
15 |
5.60% |
12 |
Yes |
Common Sense Mainer |
0 |
10 |
10 |
3.73% |
0 |
Yes |
Paul Ferguson |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.37% |
0 |
No |
smileycreek |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.37% |
0 |
Yes |
Regina in a Sears Kit House |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.37% |
0 |
Yes |
MKinTN |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.37% |
0 |
Yes |
vgranucci |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0.37% |
17 |
Yes |