THE Ave Awards MIT ‘s Professor Richard Lindzen the Knowsitall Award for Academic Arrogance Drudge gleefully reports that Professor Richard Lindzen is urging caution in response to a proposal to spend $40,000,000 Massachusetts dollars ameliorating climate change. In their view, Ri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘science denial’
January 6th, 2014 - 10:44 am § in Misc.
The GMO Hysteria
The NY Times has an excellent piece about the passing of a GMO ban in Hawaii The sad truth about the debate over GMO is that the opponents, largely from the left, are so illiterate about science that they have as their partners the radical right . . One amazing example showed up last week [&hell[...]
November 25th, 2013 - 8:24 pm § in Uncategorized
The FDA and BAD Science
Not All Bad Science Comes From The Right According to the Associated Press the Food and Drug Administration is ordering 23andMe to halt sales of its personalized DNA test kits because the company has “failed to show that the technology is backed by science.” This is nonsense and a b[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Humans Using MY Word
A commentary by God Over at HorsesAss the Prophet Goldstein has has chosen a bit of Leviticus to support his employer’s opposition to the Washington State Initiative 522 requiring labelling of foods that are engineered by man rather than by Me. It is ironic that David Goldstein , who otherwi[...]
October 29th, 2013 - 4:14 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
GMOs for safety
About 2/3rds of the way through this video on high tech safety, watch how UW scientists, working with colleagues at U Colorado show how bacteria can add new genes to plants! These genes are designed to detect bombs at the airports![...]
October 12th, 2013 - 11:35 am § in The Ave Scene
The AVE Scene: Oyster Fest May Not Happen in 2014
Cioppino at 2012 Oysterfest Will OysterFest 2014 take place? Oysters are one of the best things about Puget Sound … especially eating oysters. Now, there may be a need to panic. 1. The Oysters are dying! Last September, the Seattle Times ran a three-part story cal[...]
Busting the Cig Pushers
Brooklyn, NY – DA Busts Nearly $5 Million In Counterfeit Cigarettes At BP Warehouse Today 02:37 PM Brooklyn, NY – Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the arrest of Yin Haun Zhao, charged with running a counterfeit cigarette ring that netted millions of dollars[...]
August 24th, 2013 - 4:41 am § in Misc.
Arctic methane ‘time bomb’ could have huge economic costs
Scientists say that the release of large amounts of methane from thawing permafrost in the Arctic could have huge economic impacts for the world. The researchers estimate that the climate effects of the release of this gas could cost $60 trillion (£39 trillion), roughly the size of the global econo[...]
May 26th, 2013 - 7:41 am § in Misc.
Science Denial .. running out of excuses
Solar activity not a key cause of climate change, study shows Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a new scientific study shows.[...]