Follow the Money on Fracking and Pipeline Debates

All this anti fracking advocacy–and anti Keystone XL pipeline agitation certainly is funded by someone.
Here’s some stuff to consider on the fracking debate. Saudis have a dog in the fight.
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Study: ‘No Statistical Correlation’ Between Fine Airborne Particles, Premature Death

There’s no evidence to support the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) longstanding claim that fine airborne particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrograms or less (PM2.5) is killing thousands of Americans every year, according to the first comprehensive study of its kind. Continue reading Study: ‘No Statistical Correlation’ Between Fine Airborne Particles, Premature Death

Maryjuanna, redux

I never heard so much nonsense as the reaction of dopers and weed users in response to the piece I put up with Peter Hitchens’ condemnation of the general surrender to marijuana in UK and now in the US.
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Dddddrruuuugs IV Cocaine

I practiced in Florida when cocaine was worth 10 or more thousand dollars a kilo (2.2 pounds) back in the 80s.
Big business supplying idle Americans, and very violent dealings. In that time anybody with a cell phone was assumed to be a cocaine player, how times have changed.
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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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