Here Come the Tautologists, Watch Out Popperians

So cooling and cold is due to warming, so the next ice age might be do to green house gasses and the green house effect produces a colder planet.
Warming could be the reason for more Antarctic and Arctic ice or for less ice.
I told you this cold snap would not slow down the warming propagandists. They’ve got a stake.
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Karl Popper and Reliable Science

I will admit some criticize Popper for being so dead set in favor of deductive methods and against inductive scientific methods, but his point is deductive science that tests and verifies with reliable evidence is the essential test of reliable and credible science. Falsifiability (testability) is a big and important word in the world of Popper Science. Seems Einstein agreed about experiments and evidence as controlling and dispositive.
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Singer Talks Nukes

Fred Singer is a physicist, best known for climate science, but he is a citizen and scholar so
he provides here some commentary on the realities of nuclear developments and bomb making potential in Iran.
I think it important for us at JunkScience.com to talk scientific developments of significance–this is worth it.
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2014/01/irans_arak_plutonium_reactor.html

Drrrruuuugggs III Meth

Now there’s a nightmare.
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Drrrruuuugs II, Let's talk Maryjuanna

I decided to destroy some myths about marijuana after reading a very nice piece by Peter Hitchens.
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Dddddruuuugs? Let's Talk Opiates

There are many mythologies about drugs of abuse.
I am allied in spirit and attitude with a great writer on the problems of recreational drugs, Anthony Daniels, who writes as Theodore Dalrymple.
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Grant Money Run Amok

I can’t make this up.
Some nice and well meaning emergency physician/academic gets 2.2 million in grant money.
To study the benefits of, believe it or not
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Global Warming is Irritating the Polar Vortex

The narrative is being warmed up (pardon the pun).
Warming is irritating the polar vortex and causing cold to spin down from Canada.
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More on Brain Death and Persistent Vegetative State/Coma

Follow up on the short discussion of the Jahi case and the longer one on Terri Schiavo.
Guidance for Neurologists on how to determine brain death
http://surgery.med.miami.edu/laora/clinical-operations/brain-death-diagnosis
Discussion from the National Inst of Neurological Disorders on characteristics of Coma and Persistent Vegetative State (PVS).
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/coma/coma.htm

Info on the Lightbulb Legislation

Received from someone who knows.
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Jahi and Brain Death

I have rarely been asked to assist in declaration of death situations, since I am Doctor Lawyer. Mostly Doctor, though, inactive member of the Bar of Texas.
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Kerry, a Science Illiterate, Pushes Climate Issues

John Kerry, who served in Viet Nam, by the way, is pushing for climate change policy responses and some State generated treaty work.
Maybe they can stop storms and weather events, which now are getting names from the weather channel to make sure people get scared and stuff.
Info forwarded by Fred Singer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/world/asia/kerry-shifts-state-department-focus-to-environment.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140103&_r=0