Good news from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Randy Schekman.
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Category: Fighting back
Let's Talk Fallacies
This essay by JW Buckley is a wonderful exploration of a wicked development–dishonest post modern anti-science science in the service of political ideologies.
Yes Houston, we have a problem.
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It's Over, Fat Lady Takes the Stage
What if I told you the warming panic movement had an empty tank? Was an empty shell?
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Mark Steyn on Climate Developments
Such a treasure. Such a clever and articulate man.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/365220/ice-everywhere-no-hockey-sticks-mark-steyn
Driessen Goes Downtown
Paul Driessen writes a regular column for Townhall, and is an ally of those who propose sensible policy on energy and environment issues. He and I agree with few quibbles.
He is a spokesperson and writer for Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) that pushes back on fanatic enviros with a particular emphasis on the negative impact of environmentalist nonsense on the welfare of 3rd World people.
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Let's Talk Precautionary Principle
I know, maybe you want to see the latest–later.
Now we talk PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE, since it drives much of what we criticize here at JunkScience.com.
The idea that one bad event is too intolerable and you can’t be too risk averse.
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Church Lady says it's Satan: Hystories
Today I read the sad story of two day care people who were convicted and imprisoned because of the vivid imagination of children and the culture of anxious America.
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Damn the Nannies–Eat "Toxins"for Thanksgiving
Every year the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) publishes a fine rendition on why toxicology by the EPA is Junk Science for sure every year for he holidays.
If one paid attention to the fools on the hill at places like the Harvard factory for panic by Willett and Ascherio–there would be nothing but degraded mush to eat for Thanksgiving and the Holidays.
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Charlatans Rule at the EPA
Francesca Grifo PhD, doyen of scientific integrity at the Union of Concerned Scientists, has been appointed in charge of scientific integrity at EPA, a lateral move, junk science in the private enviro sector to the same role in government.
With this appointment the EPA accomplishes two things, cover for continued junk science and a thumb in the eye of any serious critic of EPA scientific misconduct.
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20 Rules for Junk Science Detectives
This is an outstanding set of rules for science detection and evaluating scientific assertions.
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CS Lewis on Scientism
CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day as Kennedy. Bad day for us all.
Lewis was an Oxford Don in philosophy and literature, and he wrote insightfully on the pejorative term Scientism.
He could be a patron of Junk Science.com cause we disapprove of Scientism too.
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Poll of Meteorologists on Climate
Let’s see what a legit poll of real weather guys shows.