Richard Lindzen once said to me from the audience–no that’s not right.
What an honor to be corrected by a climate science genius.
And here Dr. Lindzen, now emeritus Prof at MIT, makes some observations about catastrophic warming.
What Catastrophe? MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen, the unalarmed climate scientist
From my friend, great physicist and advocate for sensible energy policy and reliable climate science, Gordon Fulks.
Continue reading Is Coal on Life Support?
Imagine that speed would make a person like your traditional herbal remedy?
http://qz.com/163076/how-a-massive-meth-bust-in-china-is-tied-to-traditional-medicine/
Gee, there just isn’t enough information on the health risks of fracking for this Penn journalist.
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/01/when_it_comes_to_the_public_health_implications_of_gas_drilling_pa_has_its_head_in_the_shale.html
Fanatics cannot accept coexistence of ideas. Regardless of the subject mattter, social science, hard science, public policy making, political correctness intimidation has changed the language, even censored those who would disagree with the state or elite promoted canon.
Continue reading Censorship and Statist Coercion
Clarice Feldman provides some commentary on Turney, and the stranded Ice Cruise.
Continue reading Turney and the Ice Cruise
You might ask why is there a dogma that universal health insurance coverage would reduce Emergency Department utilization? All the smart guys say so, all the way up to the President.
Well, in fact the consensus about ED visits and utilization has always been based on junk science analysis.
Continue reading Junk Science Healthcare Policy on Emergency Visits
This is a very lucid discussion of another junkscience scam–detoxing.
Detoxing is a health food supplement type scam that pretends to eliminate something bad–kinda like purging and cleansing enemas. Nonsense.
You think that David Gelernter presented some troubling considerations for modern science? You might recall he mentioned Thomas Nagel and his new book that created such a furor on the academic left, since he is–or was, an icon of the left.
Continue reading Thomas Nagel Identifies the Problem
Julian Simon predicted it, the success of the Human Race because of inventiveness, creativity, and energy.
Sit down, smoke a cigar, have a drink and consider this.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/12/chart-of-the-greatest-and-most-remarkable-achievement-in-human-history-and-one-you-probably-never-heard-about/
I can’t really believe this, since the media/academia/political army are not that easy to disassemble.
But we can hope, can’t we?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/the_global_warming_tipping_point_is_near.html
I can’t say enough good things about David Gelernter to do him justice.
He is a treasure of Western Civ, a computer whiz, philosopher, writer, with a creative and inquisitive mind. He was bombed by the unabomber and recovered to be an inspiration. He is a devout Jew, a great patriot–an island of great achievement and virtue, who is wise and eloquent.
Continue reading David Gelernter is a Giant