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I am available to speak for your organization or event. Please contact me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonpadfield/ Also, if you would be interested in taking an online data analytics course with me, please leave a comment in this video or contact me via the link above and if there is enough interest, I will make a course available. In this video I discuss the art and science of using data to predict the future. We can analyze historic data to identify trends (that is the science part) but we never know how long those trends will endure before something causes them to stop or possibly even reverse (that is the dark art part). I use the example of predicting Canada's population in 2050 in this video which seems simple enough - take the current population + births + immigration - deaths - emigration. However, in 2019 the United Nations predicted the Canadian death rate through 2100. Within just 3 years (2022) their prediction was off by 20.1% as Canada (like much of the world) has been experiencing double digit "excess deaths" since 2020. The bottom line is, in the words of the late British statistician George Box, "All models are wrong, but some are useful." We have to be careful about putting too much faith in models, because the only thing we know for certain is "all models are wrong" even though "some are useful." #maids #medicalassistanceindying #canada #dataanalytics #unitednations #birthrate #deathrate https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12166823/Canada-track-record-busting-year-euthanasia-deaths-35-jump-13-500-cases.html https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/death-rate https://phys.org/news/2023-07-expert-insight-canada-historic-immigrants.html https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/excess-deaths-mortality-coronavirus-covid-19/ https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2021028-eng.htm https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-prepares-expand-assisted-death-amid-debate-2022-12-11/

I am available to speak for your organization or event. Please contact me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonpadfield/ Every year since 2006, Gallup has interviewed around 150,000 people across 142 countries and ask them about their level of happiness. The global scores were very consistent from 2006 to 2011 but over the past 12 years, the world has become a much less happy place. This video analyzes the Gallup data and explores the contribution of Big Tech to the rising levels of global unhappiness. #Gallup #unhappiness #mentalhealth #bigtech #antidepressants #drugoverdose #suicide Gallup’s 2023 Global Emotions Report https://news.gallup.com/poll/507725/global-rise-unhappiness-stalls.aspx CDC Data on U.S. Anti-depressant consumption 2009-2018 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db377-tables-508.pdf#page=4 Psychology Today article on An Epidemic of Antidepressants https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/202003/epidemic-antidepressants The Pharmaceutical Journal anti-depressant prescriptions (in UK) increase 35% in past 6 years https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/antidepressant-prescribing-increases-by-35-in-six-years https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-overdose-deaths/ https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/evolution-of-car-safety-features https://www.sciencenews.org/article/americans-are-sleeping-less-they-were-13-years-ago https://health.clevelandclinic.org/happens-body-dont-get-enough-sleep/

I am available to speak for your organization or event. Please contact me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonpadfield/ In this video I discuss a series of 7 completely ridiculous, fake "research papers" that were peer reviewed and accepted for publication in academic journals. The 3 academics who wrote these papers did it to prove the point that papers which support popular narratives and "reach the right conclusions" can be published no matter how shoddy and ludicrous the research methodology was. From "Fat Body Building" to "Rape Culture in Urban Dog Parks" to plagiarizing Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf and updating it with "fashionable buzzwords", these academics illustrated the problems with today's peer review process in cultural studies journals. #junkscience #fakescience #fakenews #peerreview https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/duped-academic-journal-publishes-rewrite-of-mein-kampf-as-feminist-manifesto/ https://contexts.org/articles/pay-to-play-journals/ https://www.skeptic.com/downloads/conceptual-penis/23311886.2017.1330439.pdf

This is my second video addressing the subject of climate change. In this video I discuss the range of views on climate change from people who do not believe the earth is warming, to those who believe it is but it's a natural phenomenon, to those who believe the warming is man-made but not a serious threat, to those who believe it is an immediate and existential threat. I also discuss how the media tends to categorize everyone into two sides: Climate Activists or Climate Change Deniers. I believe this oversimplification of a complex issue is leading to some people being demonized and others being radicalized as a growing number of people around the world are vandalizing museums, historic fountains, blocking traffic, vandalizing SUVs, and even storming runways to shut down airports all in the name of "saving the planet." https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133041550/the-activist-who-threw-soup-on-a-van-gogh-explains-why-they-did-it https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2022/11/27/when-does-climate-activism-become-climate-terrorism/?sh=454009bbfeaf https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65707790 https://www.npr.org/2022/10/15/1129322429/just-stop-oil-climate-activists-protest-van-gogh https://www.businessinsider.com/tires-on-hundreds-suvs-have-been-deflated-by-climate-activists-2022-11?op=1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/26/climate-protest-dc-george-washington-parkway-traffic/ https://reason.com/2022/02/15/canadian-government-uses-terrorist-financing-act-to-target-financial-support-for-freedom-convoy-truckers/ https://www.foxnews.com/world/teens-pouring-milk-out-grocery-stores-raise-awareness-about-dairy-meat-production-emissions AOC claims world is going to end in 12 years https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/ Plant-based diets are essential according to WEF https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/plant-based-diet-biodiversity-report/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trevi-fountain-italy-water-turned-black-by-climate-activists-protesting-fossil-fuels/ Canada has largest cricket processing plant in the world https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/worlds-largest-cricket-processing-plant-coming-to-london-1.5655813 Ban on gas stoves overturned by 9th Circuit Court of Appeals https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-throws-berkeley-californias-ban-natural-gas-98651419 New York becomes first state to ban natural gas stoves https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/us/new-york-natural-gas-ban-climate/index.html AOC Claims 12 years till the “end of the world” (in January 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3Tnmwx7Rc 12 Years to disaster? How climate activists distort the evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3Tnmwx7Rc https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-international-news-us-news-climate-a0baaad17de744ca875711d92e173442 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/22/kerrys-claim-that-we-have-nine-years-left-avert-climate-crisis/ https://www.axios.com/2019/01/22/climate-change-scientists-comment-ocasio-cortez-12-year-deadline IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warming https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/about/foreword/ Axios description on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axios_(website) Greta Thunberg’s speech at WEF 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7dVF9xylaw Definition of Climate Change Denial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/10/20/the-long-fight-against-climate-change-deniers https://www.epfweb.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/Vaccine%20deniers.pdf https://www.amazon.com/Angry-Paying-Attention-Activists-T-Shirt/dp/B08D7CLDC4/ref=sr_1_7?crid=3A9FUYBBIZP47&keywords=if+you+are+not+angry+t-shirt&qid=1685469560&sprefix=if+you+are+not+angry+t-shir%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-7 https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/15/bernie-sanders-nuclear-plants-12-years/ https://checkyourfact.com/2019/03/20/fact-check-beto-orourke-12-years-climate-change/ George Bush September 21, 2001 Address to Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB145D3XJzE #Climate Change #Eco-vandalism #Eco-terrorism #Climate change denial #climate activist

This is my first video addressing the subject of climate change. In this video I discuss the origins of the often repeated but never cited idea that 2030 is the magic tipping point beyond which all hope is lost. Many politicians, celebrities and other climate activists claim "climate scientists tell us we only have 12 years (ending in 2030) to save the planet". However, the actual scientists who wrote the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change report specifically say that is not the case. This video quotes the actual scientists themselves as reported in mainstream media outlets (AP, Washington Post, and Axios) with links provided below. Special thanks to Reason who compiled some of the information I cite in this video. AOC claims world is going to end in 12 years https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/ Plant-based diets are essential according to WEF https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/plant-based-diet-biodiversity-report/ Canada has largest cricket processing plant in the world https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/worlds-largest-cricket-processing-plant-coming-to-london-1.5655813 Ban on gas stoves overturned by 9th Circuit Court of Appeals https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-throws-berkeley-californias-ban-natural-gas-98651419 New York becomes first state to ban natural gas stoves https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/us/new-york-natural-gas-ban-climate/index.html Ghost Busters video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sED4fzIV0k AOC Claims 12 years till the “end of the world” (in January 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3Tnmwx7Rc 12 Years to disaster? How climate activists distort the evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3Tnmwx7Rc https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-international-news-us-news-climate-a0baaad17de744ca875711d92e173442 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/22/kerrys-claim-that-we-have-nine-years-left-avert-climate-crisis/ https://www.axios.com/2019/01/22/climate-change-scientists-comment-ocasio-cortez-12-year-deadline IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warming https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/about/foreword/ Axios description on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axios_(website) Greta Thunberg’s speech at WEF 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7dVF9xylaw #climatechange #ocasiocortez #berniesanders #betoorourke #johnkerry #reason #globalwarming #climateactivist #climateaction #ipccreport

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is a concept for scoring companies on criteria other than fiscal performance. However, this is not just a consumer facing "nutrition label". It is now being used to direct investments which puts companies with a low ESG score at a financial disadvantage. What does it take for a company to raise their ESG score? In theory it just requires good environmental, social and governance practices. But the definition of "good" is in the eye of the beholder and appears to be poorly defined. A Forbes article speculated that Anheuser-Busch entered into a partnership with Dylan Mulvaney in an attempt to boost their Corporate Equality Index (CEI) which would likely increase their ESG rating. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BUD?p=BUD&.tsrc=fin-srch https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/no-one-at-senior-level-of-bud-light-knew-of-dylan-mulvaney-ad-campaign/ https://www.esg.org/what-is-esg https://www.seattletimes.com/business/nw-salmon-sent-to-china-before-reaching-us-tables/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seafood-industry-vulnerable-to-tariffs-aimed-at-china-1533812400 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face-landmark-child-slavery-lawsuit-in-us https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-to-read-food-labels https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20221122 https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/biden-vetoes-resolution-block-labor-dept-rule-esg-investing-2023-03-20/ https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/etherum-citi-goldman-sachs-jupiter-crypto-shanghai-upgrade-20230414 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmcgowan/2023/04/12/was-bud-lights-dylan-mulvaney-decision-about-esg/?sh=3d50b4178ba4 https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporate-equality-index #esg #cei #budlight #anheuserbusch

The FBI crime lab in Quantico conducted bullet lead analysis for federal, state, local and foreign law enforcement agencies from the early 1980s to 2005 in over 2,500 criminal cases. They claimed to be able to match a bullet recovered from a crime scene to the exact box of ammunition from which the bullet originated. However, the technique was never scientifically tested until 1998 when the former chief metallurgist for the FBI retired and conducted his own tests. In 2002, the National Academies of Sciences evaluated the technique and found it to be unreliable. In 2005, the FBI issued a press release announcing they would no longer conduct bullet lead analysis. However, as of 2007, hundreds of people in the United States remained incarcerated on convictions based on this debunked forensics technique. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/evidence-of-injustice/ https://www.davisvanguard.org/2020/08/bullet-lead-analysis-a-junk-science-that-has-helped-to-convict-thousands/ https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10924/forensic-analysis-weighing-bullet-lead-evidence https://innocenceproject.org/overturning-wrongful-convictions-involving-flawed-forensics/ #innocenceproject #Crimelabscandal #forensics #bulletfingerprinting #bulletleadanalysis

It seems a lot of people are polarized about what media sources they believe are accurate and which ones they think are biased. This video explores media ownership and how many media outlets are owned by just a few companies. What media sources do you trust? Please leave a comment and join the conversation. I am available as a keynote speaker for your organization or event. Please contact me through LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonpadfield/ Here are the source I used in this video... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epoch https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/open-minded-inquiry/579 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/42738.John_Dewey https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/richest-person-in-the-world-1987-to-2000/ https://billmoyers.com/story/media-consolidation-should-anyone-care/ https://miscellanynews.org/2021/04/29/opinions/the-unprecedented-consolidation-of-the-modern-media-industry-has-severe-consequences/ https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/online-documents/farewell-address/1961-01-17-press-release.pdf https://youtu.be/OyBNmecVtdU #mediabias #mediaconsolidation #biasednews #CNN #FoxNews #Wallstreetjournal #ViacomCBS #Comcast #Disney #Newscorp #AT&T

Kari Lake's win in the Arizona Supreme Court last week regarding the processing of absentee ballots has put the topic of signature verification back in the news. This video skips the politics of that case and focuses on the technology of using computers to verify signatures. #SignatureVerification #ElectionIntegrity #AbsenteeBallots #biometricsystem

Pew Research Center has been documenting American's declining confidence in scientists in general and medical scientists in particular. In this first video in my series on "Why Science is Broken", I discuss the traits of Science and Religion and how over the past few years, public health "experts" have been acting more like religious leaders than traditional scientists. Real science follows the scientific method which relies on asking questions, and transparency around sharing data, analysis, and publication of results. Real science welcomes debate. In contrast, many religions equate questioning authority with heresy and feel the need to persecute "heretics". In 1633 Galileo was placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life for holding unacceptable view and spreading disinformation such as the idea that the Earth orbits the Sun. Over the past few years, Real Science has been twisted into a State religion where supreme authorities issue proclamations that people are punished for questioning.

In this parody interview, I discuss the flawed claims made by Mr. Shay D. Seller, the CEO of Ponzi International and its subsidiary, Big Safe T, makers of supposedly bulletproof t-shirts. While the interview is meant to be funny, the issues brought up in the interview are serious. Subscribe to this channel for serious videos on related topics.

Smart speaker companies often claim their devices ONLY listen for their name. However, my personal experience a few years ago with an Amazon Echo contradicts that claim. My daughter was telling a story about her day when she said, "I thought I was going to die." My Amazon Echo immediately interrupted her and asked "should I call 911"? That was the day I purged my home of all 4 Amazon Echo devices I had at the time.

Bi-partisan legislation has been introduced in Congress to completely ban TikTok following FBI Director Christopher Wray's testimony that the Chinese Government could use TikTok to conduct "influence operations" on the American public. However, the "Twitter Files" released by Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, reveal that the United States government has been colluding with Twitter for years to suppress non-threatening political jokes and memes, a politically charged New York Post story prior to the 2016 election, and legitimate questions and concerns from medical doctors regarding mandated medications, mask requirements and lockdown orders. Other Twitter Files reveal that the Twitter cooperated with U.S. Central Command to conduct influence operations in several Middle Eastern countries.

Everyone knows Google tracks them online, so why is it such a big deal that Google was tracking people's physical locations without user's knowledge or consent? You can learn a lot of very personal things about a person based on knowing their location 24/7. Where they live, where they work, who's houses they visit, have they attended a protest, do they attend religious services and if so, what religion? Has a woman visited a women's shelter or an abortion clinic. Has a person spent time in a hospital or gone to a specialist's office? Today law enforcement will ask Google for "geofencing data" meaning, "tell us the names and personal information of the owner of every phone that was within 200 yards of a certain place during a certain window of time when a crime is thought to have been committed. Every person who was in the area is a potential suspect. #privacy matters

Over the past 2 months, Google has settled location tracking privacy lawsuits with 42 states for a total of $497 million. There have been 3 other lawsuits filed by Texas, Washington State and Washington DC that have not yet been settled. Google was caught tracking and logging user's physical location even after users turned off location tracking in the settings on their phones. While $497 million dollars may sound like a lot of money, it only represents about 0.25% of Google's annual ad revenue making it essentially a rounding error on Google's profit and loss statement.

Since 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense has funded research into the use of information / social media for strategic influence campaigns. The program, called "The Minerva Research Initiative" was a "DoD sponsored, University Based, Social Science Research Program". The research performed under this program may be a driving force behind the renewed push to ban TikTok in the United States and it has striking parallels to new revelations about coordination between the United States Government and Twitter that have recently come to light in the Twitter Files.

Following the steps of 15 states, Congress has passed, and the President has signed, legislation banning TikTok on all government owned phones, tablets and computers. Now bi-partisan legislation has been introduced in Congress to extend this ban to ALL devices in the United States including those owned by private citizens.

In 2017, a GOP affiliated Data Analytics company, Deep Root Analytics, was sued for exposing sensitive, personal data on 198 million registered voters in the United States. The data included not just the voters names, date of birth, home address, phone number and party affiliation but also predictions of every voter's ethnicity, religion, and position on hot button political topics. These predictions were based on data scraping every voter's social media posts and other online data sources.

Even if hackers do not get your credit card or bank information, you are still vulnerable if they get personal information such as your name, home address, password, email address, etc. Because many people re-use passwords, a data breach on one website can mean you will suffer losses on other websites. I personally use an app called MySudo to help protect me against the risk of my personal data being collected in a corporate data breach.

41 million customer credit and debit card numbers were stolen at Target during the Black Friday 2013 data breach. Between being sued by states and consumers, repaying banks and credit card companies, and paying their own legal fees, Target lost nearly $300 million. Tens of millions of customers were impacted by this data breach.

Most modern color printers embed nearly invisible, faint yellow "forensic tracking dots" on every page printed. These dots can be used to determine the make, model, and serial number of the printer that printed the page along with the date and time it was printed. While this secret tracking method has advantageous for law enforcement tracking down threatening letters or illegal content, it also poses serious risks to whistle blowers, activist and journalists in authoritarian regimes.

Canadian adult toy maker, We-Vibe, was sued in 2018 for collecting intimate details about how customers used their products including setting preferences, and the date, time and duration of each time the device was used. The company settled a class action lawsuit for $3.75 million (about $10,000 per customer who's data was collected).

A 2017 court case revealed that the FBI had been paying some Best Buy Geek Squad employees to search through customers computers brought in for repair and to forward any potentially illegal content to the FBI. The evidence in that case was thrown out by the judge for violating 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches. Best Buy initially denied their employees were involved in this activity but later explained in a written statement that some employees had violated company policy by accepting payments from the FBI.

In October 2022, Google agreed to pay $85,000,000 to the State of Arizona to settle a lawsuit over secretly collecting and selling consumer location data of users in Arizona. Location Data is extremely sensitive because it can be used to infer a lot of additional information about users such as their religion, political affiliation, medical conditions, and even their sexual orientation. This channel focuses on corporate misconduct and privacy violations are one of the most common forms of corporate misconduct. Subscribe to stay up to date on these type of issues.

A controversial study was published this week in the American Journal of Medicine which claimed unvaccinated drivers were 72% more likely to be involved in a serious traffic accident than vaccinated drivers. Dr. Jon Padfield provides expert commentary on this research study and offers an alternative explanation for the observed data.