“When news broke this year that Diederik Stapel, a prominent Dutch social psychologist, was faking his results on dozens of experiments, the fallout was swift, brutal and global.” Continue reading
Daily Archives: December 31, 2011
PETA seeks roadside memorials for meat that didn’t make it
“Slippery when slathered in A-1″? Continue reading
Posted in Animal rights
Peak shale gas?
“It’d be easy to analogize the small group of analysts who continue to believe the world is imminently running out of oil and natural gas to the stranded Imperial Japanese soldiers who, upon being discovered in the jungles of Guam and Indonesia in the 1970s, refused to accept that the second World War had decades earlier come to a close.” Continue reading
Posted in Fracking, Oil and gas
Brown pelicans not harmed by DDT either
Thanks to Florida journalist Charles Sobczak for the opportunity to debunk another DDT myth. Continue reading
Posted in DDT and wildlife
Myer: War on Coal Is Cynical Politics
“Were it a proven fact that coal-fired power plants had to be shut down to safeguard the public’s health and protect the planet, it would be one thing. But it isn’t.” Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Coal, EPA
Endangered Enviros: CBD’s ‘Hump Smarter Hotline’
We applaud the Center for Biological Diversity for counseling enviros to breed themselves out of existence. Continue reading
Posted in Population
Agent Orange for Breakfast?
The editors of Sioux Falls’ Argus-Leader show how much they don’t know about dioxin. Continue reading
Posted in Dioxin
