January around here got cooking with quite a lot of gun stuff. But first we went to the Quillette social in New Orleans and took the temperature of the modern anti-woke movement.

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Quillette New Orleans Social - After Action Report

On January 7th 2023, the online publication Quillette hosted a social event in New Orleans, for the readers to meet the writers. They charged a pretty penny to attend. As a former writer, I got a dis…

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I got in more pictures than I should have because I brought a cute date.

Then we did some gas stove freak-out debunking.

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The Gas Stove Asthma Lie

This week’s Culture War Current Thing is one of the most absurd ones I’ve seen in years. Gas stoves? Really? At HWFO, we’ve built a brand around exposing the absurdities underlying culture war episod…

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Further investigation shows there are really two methods of attempting to shit on gas stoves scientifically. One is to do wide correlative studies such as the one critiqued above, which never seem to control for the fact that gas stoves are disproportionately owned in cities, and therefore have worse air quality due to reasons other than the gas stove. The other sort of study basically burns a gas burner in a sealed tent for a few hours and measures air pollution in the tent. Notably absent from these second kind of studies is actual cooking. I’d love to see a study where two scientists cooked actual food in a sealed unventilated tent, one with gas and one with induction, and compared those levels of pollution.

Then we went to SHOT Show again with Open Source Defense.

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Fear and Loathing at Shot 2023

About forty thousand feet into the Oklahoma firmament, Sarah gave me a can of Pringles. A foul mouthed, red haired German in her thirties, she was happy to share her Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ta…

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AND as the culture wars turned back to guns, we did a little more focus on that topic.

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The Gun Violence "War Zone," Evaluated

On January 24th 2023, the Newton Action Chair Po Murray tweeted this…

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HWFO January 2023 Housekeeping