Monckton provides commentary.
‘No global warming for 17 years 3 months’ — A Monckton Analysis
Big Thoughts on Science
This essay by Thomas Sheahen, PhD in physics from MIT, is above my IQ, but worth the read.
The part I liked was his explanation of the implications of Quantum Mechanics as the successor to the Newtonian Classical Mechanics and that Richard Feynman said it was impossible to understand quantum mechanics. Thank goodness, I thought it was just me.
Sheahen stunned me with his little lecture about faith and trust in certain areas of legitimate science–since I am a proud skeptic looking for reliable evidence, testability and reproducibility.
The author explains that I might have to change my approach and devotion to evidence. I am still holding out.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/faith_within_science.html
NYT Report Wrong on Small Particles–Why Not?
Here is a silly NYTimes reporter’s analysis of the risk of breathing small particle-tainted air. As Milloy always says–show us the bodies. No fair just counting deaths, got to do a medical investigation.
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Bad Staph is New? You Kiddin'
Here is an astounding article that makes the case for the new terrible and resistant staph.
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YU got ADD? I Do Too
The psych nonsense has been most apparent in the excessive effort to diagnose and suppress male energy.
In some places male energy is just not acceptable. You know, like the energy of Aristotle, Alexander, Caesar, Cicero, Augustine, Des Cartes, Voltaire, Einstein, Bohr, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Washington, Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Teddy Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, Louie Armstrong, and Churchill as just a few of the many who were energetic and assertive.
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Babblegate Revisited
Some time ago we introduced Anthony Daniels, Brit psychiatrist, polymath, great essayist on the culture, with a unique insight into Brit cultural pathology. Daniels, who writes as Theodore Dalrymple, was expounding on the problems of modern psychiatric practice at the City Journal site. Daniels is merciless as a psychiatrist on the specialty and the new DSM V which is their cookbook for diagnosing troubled/crazy/unhappy/problematic people of all ages.
He was talking about one of my concerns in the junk science work we do, and Psychiatry at its worst.
The title is “Everyone on the Couch” and it places the nuttiness of psych practice gone amok in a good perspective, particularly the problem of pushing pills for unhappy people.
http://city-journal.org/2013/23_4_otbie-psychiatry.html
Here is another fine commentary on Daniel’s essay and his efforts to warn people about medicalization of behavior and the danger of creative diagnosticating (maybe that’s not a word, but I like it to describe the problem of finding a diagnosis for human foibles and bad habits and cultural/lifestyle problems).
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12 the_psychobabble_bubble.html
Recall again my recommendation of Elaine Showalter’s book Hystories about the hysterical epidemics and the work of Paul McHugh and Sally Satel, two very insightful and prescient psychiatrists–who have common sense.
Sailing in the Arctic?
Goddard is a real treasure.
What the hell is this–sailing in the Arctic during the Medieval Warming.
Knock me down, and knock Michael Mann down while you’re at it.
https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/412660703502143488
Down Goes Ehrlich, Gates Gasps in Horror
I’d say that the Club of Rome and Paul Ehrlich were the biggest losers on enviro/economic issues of the 20th century.
Thomas Malthus get’s the prize for the 19th.
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There are Others
I work for Milloy, the Junk Man, a guy who has dedicated his life to debunking terrible lies and junk science that prevent progress and interfere with proper policy making.
But we do have some wonderful allies.
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This is Easy–Warmers Lose this Round
Ice and snow. Ice and snow. Unseasonably cold temps.
Evidence for warming–not.
As for the ice, both sea ice and land ice.
It's Medicaid, Writ Large
The last 3 or 4 years of talk about the comprehensive “solution” that is Obamacare have been riding on the delusion that it is some sophisticated hybrid private/gov system of healthcare insurance. Not so. Socialists are not fixers, they are takers and haters.
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How Risky are You?
Risk averse behavior is certainly one aspect of the precautionary principle.
In public policy the government role is expanded in a risk averse population. The cost of risk averse behavior and the unintended consequences are significant.
Here’s another take–medical care in America is more expensive for sure because of risk averse behavior.
http://skepticalscalpel.blogspot.com/2013/12/defensive-medicine-is-more-of-problem.html