from Media Matters 1. Global warming “doesn’t exist” 2. 2009 was “the coldest year on record” 3. “Nearly all of the [Arctic] ice has returned” 4. “How can there be global warming if it’s snowing and it’s bitterly cold?” 5. “The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Scientific Fraud’
May 9th, 2011 - 7:34 pm § in Uncategorized
Scientist Forced to Resign for Mentioning Ejaculate
based on material Michael Smerconish at the Huff Post, including parts by Steven M. Platek, Rebecca L. Burch, and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.. Lazar Greenfield, was the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons, the inventor of the Greenfield Filter, professor emeritus of surgery at the Univer[...]
May 9th, 2011 - 12:55 pm § in Hypocrisy
We Give Berkeley Professor a D.
Ed. This post from the Berkely Blog gets a D. Prof. Mendoza dismisses a genetics of intelligence by reductio ad absurdam. Asserting that there is no genetic factor or very little in intelligence would be as silly as claiming that there are no genetic effects on the speed of thoroughbred horses[...]
Open Season on Politicians Who Plagiarize
Guttenberg has since lost his Ph.D. and completely withdrawn from public life. from Der Spiegel by Oliver Trenkamp It started with Germany’s defense minister. But once Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg lost his job, many of the researchers who uncovered his plagiarized dissertation have moved on to n[...]
April 16th, 2011 - 8:54 am § in Environment, Religion
Frank Lutz: How to Keep NPR Funded!
from the Dianne Rheems show: There are five different types of people for you to reach out to. Rejecters, Disagreeables, Neutrals, Accepters and Embracers. Each one of those terms means something. You need to forget the Rejecters because there’s nothing you can do to influence them. “The[...]
April 7th, 2011 - 1:55 pm § in Uncategorized
Epidemic of Atherosclerosis Hits Upper Class Ancient Egyptians, Scientists Wonder Why this is Not Mentioned as a Biblical Plague?
Written by Egypt News Monday, 04 April 2011 Researchers have long known that ancient Egyptians suffered from plaque build-up in the arteries that supply the heart, but the latest finding suggests that the syndrome may be more prevalent, and mysterious, than previously thought. “Commonly,[...]
April 5th, 2011 - 1:27 am § in Uncategorized
Homeopathy Does Work!
The Amazing Randi will give a million dollars to the manufacturers of homeopathic products to prove their claims. So, there is a way to make money selling sugar pills! Major drug retailers like CVS, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens sell brand label and chain-labeled homeopathic “remedies” for col[...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:52 pm § in Religion
Feynman Besmirched, Scientific Community Bemused
Craig Venter misquotes Feynman in DNA Craig Venter Image: Wikipedia, PLoS Having singlehandedly sequenced the human genome, in a heric effort to prove the superiority of the capitalist system, Craig ventor has now taken the next step on the road pioneered by the Deity, Venter has created life itself[...]
“The US Congress has entered the intellectual wilderness.”
“Misinformation was presented as fact, truth was twisted and nobody showed any inclination to listen to scientists, let alone learn from them. It has been an embarrassing display, not just for the Republican Party but also for Congress and the US citizens it represents. One lawmaker last week [...]
Lysenko: The Rad Right Charges Academe with Lysenko-ism.
Ed. A couple of weeks ago, The AVE published a story from OSU claiming that the University was silencing students because of the scientific claims of their father, a climate change denialist. The image from the right is of an academic establishment mimicking the Roman Church’s persecution [...]