Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog By Larry Kummer, Editor / 6 March 2020 Summary: We’re ignorant about the world because we read the news. Here’s today’s example from the…
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Secret Science Under Attack — Part 3
Opinion by Kip Hansen — 2 February 2020 The attacks continue in the Journals of Science against the EPA’s proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule — commonly referred…
Secret Science Under Attack — Part 2
Opinion by Kip Hansen — 24 January 2020 In Part 1 of this two-part series, I detailed how there has been a growing furor over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s…
Secret Science Under Attack — Part 1
By Kip Hansen — 22 January 2020 On the 11th of November 2019, the NY Times published an article by journalist Lisa Friedman in the Climate Section titled: ”E.P.A.…
Plastics: Science is Winning
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 18 October 2019 Science is beginning to win in the long battle over misinformed anti-plastic advocacy. It has been a long time coming. …
Science magazine does Politics
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Science, the journal, is beginning to go the way of the magazine Scientific American, in that it is beginning to become an oxymoron all by…
Real Science Debates Are Not Rare
Guest Post by Dr. Robert G. Brown The following is an “elevated comment” appearing originally in the comments to “A Rare Debate on the ‘Settled Science’ of Climate Change”, a…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #595
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” — James Wilson (1790)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #593
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592
“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #589
The Week That Was: 2024-02-24 (February 24, 2024)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The care of human life and happiness, and…
Specious Species
We are constantly bombarded by news about “species” – Endangered Species, Threatened Species, Vanishing Species, Loss of Species such as “Researchers estimate that the current rate of species loss varies…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #584
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #582
“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” –Robert A. Heinlein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #580
“I apologize for writing such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write a short one.” – Mark Twain
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #578
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell
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I fully agree with you concerning the pseudo-science of astrology. The interesting point is that this kind of superstition is so tenacious that it could persist through so many centuries.
Heat v. Cold — A Crucial Case
It is one of the sillier aspects of the Climate Wars that this issue is bandied about, with major journals, such as the Scientific American publishing such nonsense as “These…
Wasting Time with Climate Science?
Here I ask a simple question. Are we all wasting our time with climate science? Reading about it, writing about it, worrying about it, fighting about it, arguing about it.