The Grocer reports: Continue reading UK Government scraps salt reduction targets for foods
Depression at the Weather Channel
The Weather Channel was desperate for hurricane events, so they showed old hurricane video footage.
Continue reading Depression at the Weather Channel
Claim: Medicines should be labeled for salt content
This is junk science because… Continue reading Claim: Medicines should be labeled for salt content
Cui Bono Quack Quack
This nice little essay by Kevin Williamson at National Review addresses Obamacare payments for quackery.
Did you know Obamacare pays for naturopathy, chiropractic, and acupuncture, so what about aromatherapy? Continue reading Cui Bono Quack Quack
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.
Continue reading Charlatans Rule at the EPA
Warsaw Follies II
Message from Craig Rucker From CFACT, an organization opposed to the latest Climate Treaty nonsense.
Rucker attended the Warsaw meet of the UN climate gang.
Continue reading Warsaw Follies II
20 Rules for Junk Science Detectives
This is an outstanding set of rules for science detection and evaluating scientific assertions.
Continue reading 20 Rules for Junk Science Detectives
Prominent Yale warmist admits global warming impact is ‘invisible’
Thank you Anthony Leiserowitz. Continue reading Prominent Yale warmist admits global warming impact is ‘invisible’
Good Old Carbon Dioxide
It was considered an important plant nutrient in 1923.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/shock-news-100-years-ago-scientific-american-said-co2-was-not-a-pollutant/
UK Health System Insanity
UK National health Service (NHS) pays for aromatherapy and other alternative medical care services, but skimps on Cancer care?
Wonder why a financially strapped national single payer system would bother with junk science “alternative” therapies like aroma therapy? Follow the politics.
Continue reading UK Health System Insanity
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.
Continue reading CS Lewis on Scientism
Pausing on the Pause in the Polar Regions
Here’s some great stuff on temp trends and the pause.
DOWN GOES the paper by Cowtan and Way. (Remember the iconic knockdown call from the Ali/Frazier battle?)
Continue reading Pausing on the Pause in the Polar Regions