“Our research provides evidence that the formation of K’gari and the Great Barrier Reef are linked to a change in the magnitude of sea-level rise and fall due to major…
Category: Science
A Hidden Universe of Uncertainty
Even highly skilled scientists motivated to come to accurate results varied tremendously in what they found when provided with the same data and hypothesis to test.
New Evidence Shows Water Separates into Two Different Liquids at Low Temperatures
Fresh evidence that water can change from one form of liquid into another, denser liquid, has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Birmingham and Sapienza Università di Roma.
The Many-Analysts Approach
“Why do we have so many wildly varying answers to so many of the important science questions of our day? Not only varying, but often directly contradictory.”
Peer Review Plus
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A Modest Proposal For Improving Peer Review Abstract. A proposal is made for the design of a specific type of post-publication peer review. Background In…
The physics of fire ant rafts could help engineers design swarming robots
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating rafts made up…
Three Critical Factors in the End-Permian Mass Extinction
Dr. Foster and his team were able to directly link their extinction to the following climate changes: declining oxygen levels in the water, rising water temperatures, and most likely also…
Most Published Studies Exaggerated the Effects of Ocean Acidification – and Covid, Etc.
However, a problem with laboratory experiments is that they cannot capture the complexities of the real world, not even the tremendous natural variability in ocean pH – which is a…
Global Water Cycle
The global oceans are receiving less sunlight while the land surface is receiving more as the precession cycle progresses for the next 12,000 years. The water cycle is in gradual…
Bronze Age City Destroyed by Bolide
Guest “They nailed this one” by David Middleton Scientific archaeology is essentially forensic history. It is an interdisciplinary effort, involving multiple disciplines, often including: archaeology, geology, geophysics, physical geography, geochemistry,…
Science Journal Demands “Hate Crime” Laws to Shield Scientists from Public Criticism
Could criticism of government science be outlawed? A science journal paper appears to have equated Republican attempts to fire Dr. Fauci with physical intimidation and NAZI oppression of science, and…
Time To Assume That Health Research Is Fraudulent Until Proven Otherwise?
Research fraud is often viewed as a problem of “bad apples,” but Barbara K Redman, who spoke at the webinar insists that it is not a problem of bad apples…
Science, Philosophy and Politics
By Andy May Greg Weiner has written a great essay in Law & Liberty, entitled: “Why We cannot Just ‘Follow the Science.‘” His point is that scientists and science are…
Death spiral of American academia
This climate is eroding free speech, with overt censorship by rejecting publication of results with real (or simply apparent) connection to right-of-center policies, as well as tremendous self- censorship both…
Follow the science, at least on nutrition
Whether it’s nutrition, Covid or climate change, the last thing we need is more sloppy politicized science, and more policies, laws and regulations dictated by “woke” or “cancel culture” agendas…
Irreproducible science and US government regulation
The EPA issues an extraordinary number of regulations, which affect every area of the economy and constrict everyday freedoms. Extensive regulatory schemes can amount to a competitive advantage for large…
Ocean Acidification Effects Research in Doubt
“Munday’s and Dixson’s data on chemical signal preference had a “0 out of 10,000” chance of being real. They left it to the reader to decide what to think about…
How we fool ourselves. Part III: Social biases
Motivated biases become particularly problematic once these biases are institutionalized, with advocacy statements made by professional societies, editorials written by journal editors, and public statements by the IPCC leadership.
Science News vs. Science
Science Journalism is Hard. It is hard to do right and thoroughly in the space provided by publishers. Science journalism (including health reporting) has a special edge to it, as…
Listen To Hard Science, Reject Pop Science, To Lessen Global Catastrophe Risk.
“It is likely that we have to capitalize on the insecurity of the educated elite and make them look silly instead of superior and virtuous. We must remember that they…
A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics
For decades, physicists have relied on and have been bound by the Standard Model, which successfully explains the results of high-energy particle experiments in places like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.…
Uncomfortable knowledge
Donald Rumsfeld famously opined on the problems of decision-making in the face of “known knowns,” “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns.” To those three categories Rayner added a fourth, “unknown knowns”…
The Eukaryotic Nucleus May Derive from a Giant Virus
This post reports on an unpaywalled paper in the journal “Virus Research” from November last year, offering support for this Viral Eukaryogenesis hypothesis.
Chemists describe a new form of ice
Scientists from the United States, China, and Russia have described the structure and properties of a novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate that forms at room temperature and relatively low pressure.
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