Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), America’s Dumbest Congressman®, recently “asked a U.S. Forest Service official if her organization or the Bureau of Land Management could change the orbit of the moon or Earth to reverse the effects of human-caused climate change.” (See story here.) “T[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad Science’
July 5th, 2016 - 11:45 am § in Misc.
Scientists Discover Schmooballs
There is already a name for this .. the schmoo. This borders on the silly things rich folks who do not understand science (aka Bill Gates for this one) spend money on. First, to be truly free of animal sources, the medium used to grow the cells that make this meat would need to […][...]
April 20th, 2016 - 9:05 am § in Misc.
Science Hype: An anti-aging startup hopes to elude the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and death at the same time.
Elysium Health says it will be turning chemicals that lengthen the lives of mice and worms in the laboratory into over-the-counter vitamin pills that people can take to combat aging. The startup is being founded by Leonard Guarente, an MIT biologist who is 62 (“unfortunately,” he says) a[...]
Harvard Medical School Clones Van Gogh’s Ear
NBC News Working at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Artist Diemut Strebe made the replica of van Goh’s ear using living cells from Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great-grandson of Vincent’s brother Theo. “I use science basically like a type of brush, l[...]
August 16th, 2015 - 1:10 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Bill Gates Wants More Tax Bucks For Energy
Bill gates says that because the U.S. government spends tens of billions of dollars in research on defense and health, the we urgently need more R&D on energy solutions to stop climate change. Bill is an engineer. Engineers build things ysng knowledge gianed form science. I am a scie[...]