February 15, 2015 – 6:18 pm
Personally, I’d note that the public is not really distrusting over all scientists, but those who put themselves out there in the public domain, as well as those who have been politicized and are essentially on the payroll of government. Here’s the Mercury News editorial board Scientists must solve growing trust problem Scientists are facing […]
March 27, 2014 – 11:06 am
There’s a political joke in there, but, let’s keep this to the realm of coolness (Mercury News) Peering into the far reaches of the solar system, astronomers have spied a pink frozen world 7½ billion miles from the sun. It’s the second such object to be discovered in a region of space beyond Pluto long […]
February 25, 2014 – 9:43 pm
This is cool (CNN) From a sheep ranch in Western Australia comes the oldest slice of Earth we know. Scientists say they have dated an ancient crystal called a zircon to about 4.4 billion years, making it the earliest confirmed piece of the planet’s crust. The findings — the first to describe the zircon — […]
February 3, 2014 – 6:20 pm
Well, that supposes that “climate change” is actually about science (Forbes)  Will the overselling of climate change lead to a new scientific dark age? That’s the question being posed in the latest issue of an Australian literary journal, Quadrant, by Garth Paltridge, one of the world’s most respected atmospheric scientists. Paltridge was a Chief Research […]
October 29, 2013 – 8:03 am
As always, I’ll start with the notion of “I’ll believe it when it happens”. It will happen at some point, most likely within the next 100-200 years, based on the history of the Holocene (BBC) It’s known by climatologists as the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period in the 1600s when harsh winters across the UK […]
August 8, 2013 – 11:09 am
Tom Nelson says “not to miss this” He’s right. I’ve cut the chart in two below the fold so we can look at it in a larger format
July 4, 2013 – 8:24 am
And by worse, I mean worse for the disciples of the Cult Of Climate Change (Daily Caller) When Barack Obama promised to slow the earth’s rising sea levels and heal the planet during the 2008 campaign, he probably had no idea that curbing carbon dioxide emissions might not lower the sea levels. A study published […]
June 3, 2013 – 9:01 pm
Originally, scientists found that the diabetes drug Avandia could cause heart attacks, so is now used as a drug of last resort (hey, how about those prescription drug commercials which use half the time to describe the possible side effects, like blindness, dark urine, and death? I really like the one about depression drugs causing […]
June 2, 2013 – 9:11 pm
Obviously, I’m not a scientist. I’ve never claimed to be. But, that’s OK, because this whole “climate change” issue is mostly a political one, not a scientific one. I can get into the science, but I do not go as deep as, say, Anthony Watts or Dr. Roy Spencer. So, I’ve been trying to work […]
October 1, 2012 – 4:46 pm
Food for though (Guardian) The proportion of scientific research that is retracted due to fraud has increased tenfold since 1975, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of how research papers go wrong. The study, published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that more than two-thirds of the biomedical […]
