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Posts Tagged ‘Science Denial’
August 22nd, 2014 - 2:11 am § in Hypocrisy
How To Sell Drugs Without FDA Approval
What is a drug? a natural or artificial substance given to treat or prevent illness or to lessen pain Unless someone calls it “natural” and sells it in a health food store. Read this story of a high school student who suffered severe liver dama[...]
August 8th, 2014 - 12:52 pm § in Uncategorized
Environment: Of Truth and Fantasy
Antarctic glaciers melting twice as fast as previously estimated Antarctic ice shelf melt ‘lowest ever recorded.‘[...]
June 9th, 2014 - 11:46 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
An Atmospheric Physicist On Climate Speech
Commentary by Halstead: Hi, .. St. Paul the Krugman’s OpEd today suggests that climate skepticism stems less from economic opposition [‘industries fight their replacement’] than from ‘ideology and anti-intellectualism’. I wonder. As it seems to me, there are two types o[...]
May 30th, 2014 - 1:39 am § in Uncategorized
Bad News About Grass!
From The Local: Pregnant pot smokers can damage kids’ brains An expectant mother’s use of cannabis during pregnancy can prevent a child from forming certain connections in the brain while growing in the womb, a Sweden-based researcher has revealed. “Despite the present climate rega[...]
May 18th, 2014 - 10:36 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Climate Denial at WWU
A geology professor emeritus at Western Washington University, Don J. Easterbrook, edited Evidence-Based Climate Science a book which contends that increased CO2 emissions aren’t the cause of climate change. Dr. Easterbrook has appeared with Glenn Beck and been interviewed for the New York T[...]
May 15th, 2014 - 4:11 am § in Politics
Is Rubio Chanelling Mr. Spock?
Rubio: I am Ready To Be President, Climate Change Caused by Man, Clinton Mrs. Gets an ‘F’ By LUCY MCCALMONT | 5/11/14 12:00 PM EDT Article Comments (0) <span class=”mceItemHidden” data-mce-bogus=”1″> &amp;lt;a href=”http://ad.doubleclick.ne[...]
May 7th, 2014 - 3:22 am § in Science
RESCUING US SCIENCE
Four Science Leaders Speak Out on How US Biomedical Research Can Survive Hard Times; “Rescuing U.S. Biomedical Research From Its Systemic Flaws” A recent article by Sam Stein on Huff Post sums it up pretty well, the US is suffering from a brain drain. Where once the best came here and becam[...]
A Devout Catholic Runs America’s Biological Research
Does Religion Matter? Francis Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health. Collins has been controversial among scientists because he has held this position while also being an outspoken believer in te literal truth of the Christian Bible and, apparently, a fervent supporter of the[...]