Lili's amusement of the day

The "Wisdom of the Crowd" indeed! How ironic!

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/tens-wisdom-of-the-crowd-axed-by-cbs-following-allegations-against-jeremy-piven-20171130-gzvwjt.html

Lili's wish for the day

Sad to see that the respected Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who is one of the interesting people in my famous synaesthetes list and was also recently an Australian of the Year is the subject of allegations of “inappropriate behaviour", a part of an international wave of disclosures of allegations of sexual misconduct among high-profile media identities. At present it appears that the person making the allegations and full details of the alleged behaviour are not publicly known, but two male actors who have thrown their support behind the allegations have been named. Rush has issued a denial. I hope there is nothing behind this accusation, but, like a waxwork figure in a bushfire, the situation is looking uglier by the minute. 

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/geoffrey-rush-accusal-actors-support-woman-who-complained-of-touching/news-story/44b08726f56de1b695d50f90fe55ff5b

http://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/2017/11/30/geoffrey-rush-allegations-inappropriate-behaviour/

Lili's dismissal of the day

So Mr Burke, past host and founder of the defunct but once highly popular Australian gardening TV show Burke's Backyard, it seems clear that you have been a workplace bully and sex pest for ages, and you claim this is because you're "an Asperger's person"? While I no longer think there's much validity or science behind the labels "autism" and "Asperger syndrome", I do know that workplace bullying and sexual misconduct have never been regarded as features of the conditions, in fact, regardless of level of intelligence, people with these labels are lucky to get anywhere near having a job, let alone being the boss who has the power to get away with such unethical or criminal behaviour.

Your unconvincing excuse gets you nowhere, especially in light of the fact that you've been busy denying as well as excusing yourself. You can't offer an excuse for behaviour that you haven't even owned up to!

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/morning-shows/don-burkes-aspergers-excuse-what-kind-of-human-sinks-this-low/news-story/4fd3530a26741e574a01bea661c271c8


If you have the chance to watch the ABC news interview with Katharine Annear, the chairperson of Autistic Advocacy Australia and New Zealand about Don Burke's recent claims, it is well worth a look. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-28/don-burkes-claim-of-undiagnosed-aspergers-angers-advocates/9199614

Lili's bewilderment of the day

So amusing when these celebrity sex pests vehemently deny all of the allegations, even when there's a clear pattern of offending among many accounts from numerous victims who share characteristics such as gender, body area groped and their age when the events happened. Who do they think they are kidding? 

Lili's tip for the day

Lili's making a list, she's checking it twice, gunna find out who's naughty or nice…

Questions, questions....

We can't even trust Pub Peer?

https://forbetterscience.com/2017/11/15/call-to-research-integrity-or-at-least-a-minor-revolution-at-cnrs/#more-21908

If universities do what they are supposed to do (allow only real scholarship), then how do we get quackademics?

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ubc-journal-retraction-raises-controversial-question-can-an-activist-who-writes-an-anti-vaccine-study-be-a-scientist

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/quackademic-medicine-at-uc-irvine/

Are South African white farmers being murdered in racially-targeted attacks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_African_farm_attacks&oldid=810649632

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/farmer-armies-in-the-killing-fields-294873

https://www.scribd.com/doc/284112299/650-PAGE-list-of-names-of-murdered-white-people-in-South-Africa

Does Australia have an unreported safety hazard with car airbags that is a separate issue than the Takata airbag scandal?

https://airbagsafetyinaustralia.wordpress.com/

Could it possibly be true that in 2017 Parliament House in Canberra needs to be modified to accommodate a new MP who uses a wheelchair?

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/parliament-house-doors-too-small-for-new-greens-mp-wheelchair-ng-71d4555402aea188b7625f36a338de7b

Why does anyone still believe that we have the right to free speech in Australia?
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-publisher-scraps-book-on-chinas-influence-out-of-fear-of-beijing-2017-11?r=US&IR=T

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/professor-clive-hamilton-will-not-appear-at-adelaide-writers-week-after-fears-of-chinese-legal-threats/news-story/1fb5181141f69f7b0f68aff6e14289b6

Is wind turbine syndrome a communicated disease?
http://www.gleebooks.com.au/BookingRetrieve.aspx?ID=291835

Russell Howard asks "Why are girls' toys patronising and shit?"