Posting History for Science Matters
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| New Study Released on Rate of Pesticide Use on GMO Crops advances.sciencemag.org/…
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The widespread adoption of genetically engineered (GE) crops has clearly led to changes in pesticide use, but the nature and extent of these impacts remain ... |
Lenny Flank | 09/01/2016 | 22 | 9 | - | - |
| Fossil-Fuel-Funded Deniers Dispute Bill Nye Claim That Deniers Are Fossil-Fuel-Funded We recently heard about some of the differences between skepticism and denial, but there’s a much more fundamental way to distinguish between the two. New evidence is rejected immediately by deniers, but skeptics are capable of changing their mind when... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 08/26/2016 | 6 | 17 | - | - |
| Does "Chronic Lyme Disease" Really Exist? It is a fierce controversy, fought out with almost religious devotion by True Believers. Does "Chronic Lyme Disease" actually exist, is it a conspiracy of denial by medical science, or is it just an Internet hysteria?
In the 1970's, doctors in the... |
Lenny Flank | 08/24/2016 | 138 | 22 | - | - |
| Hard to Handle: Trolling Denial vs Legitimate Skepticism In an interesting new paper, two pairs of authors bring their unique viewpoints to bear on a hard to handle subject -- how should scientists and the public interact to ensure the accuracy of scientific studies? How can scientists tell the difference... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 08/24/2016 | 3 | 10 | - | - |
| Cultured meat is a future feast It might have sounded like science fiction just a few years ago, but today it seems we are just few years away from having meat and leather that don't require an animal to be killed. These cultured meat and leather products are grown in just a few labs... |
jprice77 | 08/23/2016 | 99 | 11 | - | - |
| A Mad World’s Surprise Agreements and Unsurprising Abandonments To start this roundup of last week’s content you might have missed, we have a must-read from astronaut/climate scientist Piers Sellers, whose tragic situation hasn’t dulled his writing. He discusses the concept of “theory” with the unique clarity of a... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 08/22/2016 | 5 | 7 | - | - |
| Climate change denier is accurate – AP stylebook disagrees I’m going to guess that a discussion of the AP stylebook isn’t a typical subject discussed in a skeptic blog. But the AP is worried that “denier” is too pejorative, and recommend that the term not be used, which made me take notice. I’m going to take... |
SkepticalRaptor | 08/21/2016 | 15 | 15 | - | - |
| Combating Climate Science Denial--A Brief Case Study I recently had a friend tell me that the number of hot days in the United States has declined over the last eighty years, thus proving that if the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is having an effect on climate, it must be cooling the United... |
OutOnALimb | 08/21/2016 | 84 | 69 | - | - |
| Dealing with Denial An op-ed column in today’s Sunday Star-Ledger (8/21/2016) by Brian Regal looks at denial, and in particular denial of science, history and reality in general. Regal teaches the history of science, technology and medicine at Kean University in New... |
libera nos | 08/21/2016 | 6 | 5 | - | - |
| Bill Nye drops the gauntlet on climate denier—bets $10,000 this will be one of the hottest years Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has made a name (and some good money) for himself denying climate change. Nye decided to go after Bastardi for the bogus argument he penned here.
You may have noticed over the years Bill Nye’s increasingly shrill tones... |
Walter Einenkel | 08/19/2016 | 31 | 23 | - | - |
| Golden rice may be Vitamin A jackpot Ever hear of Vitamin A?
Sure you have, it’s up there with Vitamins B, C, D, E and K as being essential to a healthful life.
Vitamin A plays a critical role in the maintenance of the body in regards to vision, neurological function,... |
jprice77 | 08/19/2016 | 121 | 9 | - | - |
| Prevent Zika virus with GMO mosquitoes – Frankensquito returns Over the past few months, the Zika virus, a mosquito borne disease that is passed from the mother to the developing fetus, has become the focus of a lot of attention because of the danger it poses to the fetus. There are no vaccines or treatments for... |
SkepticalRaptor | 08/15/2016 | 48 | 22 | - | - |
| The EPA will not investigate scientist accused of fraud in methane leak research A scientist and former adviser to the EPA will not be investigated for fraud concerning his published research surrounding methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. Environmental activists had called for an investigation into studies the EPA... |
Walter Einenkel | 08/15/2016 | 8 | 6 | - | - |
| Would Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman Have Signed that GMO Letter? Posted on Biotechsalon.com August 9, 2016:
From what I have read about him, I am pretty sure that Richard Feynman would not have signed the recent letter in which a large percentage of our living Nobel laureates urged Greenpeace to end its... |
belindabiotech | 08/13/2016 | 104 | 9 | - | - |
| The Odd Phenomenon of "Morgellons Disease" "Morgellons Disease" is one of the oddest social phenomena of the 21st century. Its devotees claim to have an unknown disease in which their skin grows mysterious fibers; medical science is ... |
Lenny Flank | 08/09/2016 | 59 | 36 | - | - |
| Breakthrough multiple sclerosis treatment shows tremendous promise There are about 2.5 million people who suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS) in the world. There are around 400,000 cases in the United States. Canada has one of the higher rates of the disease that can affect a person’s brain, spinal chord and eyes. The... |
Walter Einenkel | 08/05/2016 | 114 | 202 | - | - |
| OK So I have to get something off my chest OK so I have to get something off my chest but before we begin let’s set some ground rules:
This is not a third-party advocacy diary, even if I am a staunch Democrat who feels all parties should have equal ballot access. This site has rules... |
terrypinder | 08/04/2016 | 117 | 41 | - | - |
| The Continual Anti-Science Views of Jill Stein and her Campaign There has been a lot of talk in this election about the problem with the two-party system in the USA and people feeling forced into voting for the “lesser of two evils.” I can understand these ... |
Cantholdmylemons | 08/02/2016 | 47 | 22 | - | - |
| The Antioxidant Purple Tomato Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...
At the turn of the decade, a new “scientific” fad diet began to spread across the internet and the nutrition community with claims of tiny ... |
Sterling Ericsson | 08/01/2016 | 79 | 37 | - | - |
| Jill Stein's anti-vaccine message – it's anti-science The focus of this blog is science, though I occasionally wander into other topics. But in today's world science and politics intersects a lot – and mostly politics comes up woefully short on science. Case in point, the Green Party in the USA has a... |
SkepticalRaptor | 07/31/2016 | 478 | 141 | - | - |
| SNOPES: FALSE_ Jill Stein is absolutely NOT an anti vaxxer Sigh. Chest-heaving sigh. Jill Stein is not an anti-vaxxer.
“Dr. Jill Stein's popularity surge during the Democratic National Convention led to rumors that she opposes vaccines, but that isn't the case.”
SNOPES cites this from Stein:
... |
pfiore8 | 07/31/2016 | 195 | 18 | - | - |
| The Nye-Files: The Truthers are Out There Today, we're focusing on the good people who take on the run-of-of-the-mill internet trolls
First, our favorite science guy, Bill Nye, is back with a new video aimed at debunking climate change conspiracy theories.
Vocativ combes through online... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 07/27/2016 | 9 | 10 | - | - |
| 101 House Democrats Don't Want You to Know What's in Your Food. S. 764 was originally the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015. It now has nothing to do with Planned Parenthood. It is now titled “An Act to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.” Except the bill... |
Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees | 07/19/2016 | 163 | 16 | - | - |
| Green Party hints at some disappointing ideas on science and medicine There is a myth running amok among rational progressives that groups like anti-vaxxars are solely a problem on the left. While there is a kernel of truth to this, vaccination requirements come from ... |
DarkSyde | 07/16/2016 | 452 | 145 | - | - |
| The European Food Safety Authority's Squabble With Austria Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...
Austria has a bit of a problem with genetically modified crops. This is not an altogether surprising statement, as the nation has for two decades been heavily involved in promoting organic farming, in... |
Sterling Ericsson | 07/13/2016 | 5 | - | - | - |
| July Update: Looking for Fukushima Contamination in Canadian Coastal Waters This blog is based on a full report prepared by Dr. Jonathan Kellogg of the InFORM project that can be found here.
Citizen Science Coastal Seawater Monitoring: Seventeen more samples have been analyzed for Fukushima derived radionuclides which... |
MarineChemist | 07/12/2016 | 10 | 19 | - | - |
| Open Access Review of Fukushima Radionuclide Source Term, Fate and Impact in Pacific The purpose of this post is to bring to the attention of readers here a review of the available measurements and science based investigations of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) and its impact on the Pacific Ocean ecosystem and public... |
MarineChemist | 07/12/2016 | 20 | 18 | - | - |
| Arizona is suffering largest measles outbreak because immigration employees didn't get vaccinated Arizona has been suffering a recent outbreak of measles since May. Of the 22 reported cases, 9 are connected to Federal Immigration Detention staff.
The people 12 News spoke with there are well aware of the outbreak and were upset to learn about... |
Walter Einenkel | 07/11/2016 | 95 | 75 | - | - |
| China’s National Transgenic Project Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...
Since 2006, China has focused on a number of projects to maximize its further industrialization and economic dominance in the world sphere, with the county branching out into several new fields. This... |
Sterling Ericsson | 07/10/2016 | 13 | 5 | - | - |
| If you want Intellectual Property Rights and profits from a patent, then you have to label your shit I am so tired of the only argument regarding the labeling of Genetically Modified Foods being framed in terms of how much people hate and despise GMOs or Monsanto, etc., Half the time the arguments I see online, or hear out in the world in general,... |
GreenMother | 07/08/2016 | 54 | 8 | - | - |
| More than 100 Nobel laureates call for Greenpeace to end its opposition to GMOs Over 100 Nobel laureates called for the end of Greenpeace’s opposition to genetically modified crops. They said that there is a very clear scientific consensus that modified crops are safe and in some cases a huge benefit to communities.
"Golden... |
Walter Einenkel | 07/01/2016 | 191 | 32 | - | - |
| WSJ Defends Itself by Demonstrating the Denial, Deception of Which it's Accused In the two weeks since the WSJ started running ads that call out its systemic bias on climate change, the opinion pages have yet to address them. But now, columnist Holman Jenkins Jr has responded with a piece that perfectly demonstrates how the... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 06/30/2016 | 21 | 19 | - | - |
| Anti-Vaxxers Lose Again A claim filed with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program years ago by an anti-vaxxer who claimed that vaccines caused his son’s autism has finally been ruled on. Brian Hooker cited ... |
Lenny Flank | 06/29/2016 | 6 | 27 | - | - |
| Boldly Going Where Everyone Has Gone Before As deniers become increasingly desperate for new ideas, it’s not often that we get to debunk new arguments. But sometimes old arguments are dressed up in new ways and published on new websites. Case in point: Carrie Sheffield’s post about Al Gore’s... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 06/29/2016 | 3 | 13 | - | - |
| Food to Cleanse Your Lungs I just got hooked on one of those websites that invite you in with a startling headline and once you take the bait... "10 Foods To Clean Up Smokers’ Lungs" ...you feel like Alice down the rabbit hole. I decided to look for the best "lung food" on my... |
thinkingblue | 06/27/2016 | 10 | 14 | - | - |
| DKos Health and Wellness Group - supplements, lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! The Dkos Health and Wellnes group meets up every Sunday at 8AM EDT to discuss aspects of health and wellness that impact our lives. Wellness is something that a lot of us are passionate about, and the intent of this group is to provide a forum for... |
Richard Cranium | 06/26/2016 | 70 | 8 | - | - |
| Chickenhawk Republican Climate Deniers Just Killed Critical Military Funding The Republican Party has distinguished itself for its shameless, knee-jerk opposition to anything with even a faint fragrance of liberalism. Their robotic rejection of any policy proposed by President Obama, or any other Democrat, is evidence of their... |
News Corpse | 06/25/2016 | 17 | 35 | - | - |
| NIH authorizes first human trial of CRISPR gene-editing technique Forget GMO. Get ready for GMH.
CRISPR, the genome-editing technology that has taken biomedical science by storm, is finally nearing human trials.
On 21 June, an advisory committee at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved a... |
Mark Sumner | 06/25/2016 | 57 | 56 | - | - |
| Hawai'i Pesticide Ordinances In 9th Circuit Court The implications of the court's ruling or rulings in this case will be vast.—Courthouse News
The Ninth Circuit Court Judges came to Hawai’i to hear four appeals to rulings that held that county ordinances and a citizens’ initiative were pre-empted... |
Karen from Maui | 06/25/2016 | 13 | 11 | - | - |
| The War On Science: An Important New Book Thinker, writer, and independent scholar Shawn Otto has written an important book called “The War on Science: Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It.”
I’ve written a review of the book, with some of my own thoughts, here.
The rise... |
gregladen | 06/17/2016 | 14 | 5 | - | - |
| Donald Trump's views on vaccines – he's wrong (again) Donald Trump is technically the Republican candidate in the 2016 election for President of the United States. There’s a lot that he says that disgusts me personally, and the public generally. But there’s one area that may indicate the depth of his... |
SkepticalRaptor | 06/13/2016 | 11 | 35 | - | - |
| Small Win for Mann in The War on Climate Science If you're reading this, odds are that you're interested in the war on science. In that case, you'll probably be interested in the new book on The War on Science. Media Matters beat us to the punch with a nice review and summary (though we'll probably... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 06/13/2016 | 6 | 19 | - | - |
| Wrong, Wronger, Wrongest: Deniers Failing In Every Way Everyone makes mistakes now and then. Sometimes they’re minor math mess-ups. Other times they’re scientific predictions that fail. And occasionally, people seem to be wrong on purpose, getting things spectacularly incorrect in a way that just so... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 06/10/2016 | 11 | 14 | - | - |
| Science Must be Priority For Next US President Originally published on February 11, 2016 and Reblogged from astronomytopicoftheday.wordpress.com/... from my Science and Astronomy Blog, Astronomy Topic Of The Day: astronomytopicoftheday.wordpress.com.
We are at a critical juncture in human... |
tmadigan55 | 06/10/2016 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| Update: Looking for Fukushima Contamination In North American Coastal Waters The purpose of this short post is to provide an update on the activities of the InFORM project which is conducting a scientifically rigorous monitoring program to determine the impact of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP) disaster on... |
MarineChemist | 06/08/2016 | 14 | 26 | - | - |
| Fairy Tales By a Health Ranger: From Vaccines to Plant Consciousness It’s more or less accepted these days that climate change deniers fall into two broad camps: the political pundits and professionals in the pay of the fossil fuel industry who argue that climate change is “the greatest hoax,” and the regular folks who... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 06/07/2016 | 8 | 8 | - | - |
| Environmental activists and attorneys general hit back at Republicans' witch hunt against science If you didn’t already know, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith is the Republican chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. He is a shining example of why you have to vote blue during elections. He has been leading a Oil and Gas Industry... |
Walter Einenkel | 06/03/2016 | 5 | 20 | - | - |
| 12-year-old child trolls anti-vaxxers and it is hilarious (with video goodness) A very young scientist, 12-year-old Marco Arturo, posted a video to his Facebook page trolling anti-vaxxers as a public service announcement. He begins by claiming he has the evidence that vaccines cause autism—he even produces a large “dossier.” From... |
Walter Einenkel | 05/31/2016 | 19 | 27 | - | - |
| This week in science: Gang of squid With a few delicious exceptions like fresh fish straight the ocean, most foods we eat today have been changed beyond recognition through millennia of unconscious artificial selection, followed by ... |
DarkSyde | 05/29/2016 | 85 | 44 | - | - |
| Trusting Science So, it’s been a long, long time since I’ve posted anything — certainly not for a lack of things to discuss; just a lack of time — but I thought I’d make note of an NPR article I encountered yesterday with the following summary: Lots of psychology... |
MaggieN | 05/25/2016 | 28 | 12 | - | - |
| Animal Testing Kills and Saves...So Where Should We Stand? For a country that loves animals arguably more than any other, why do so many of us not care about animal testing?
Disclaimer: I love animals.
Second disclaimer: Except insects and spiders. I also recently learned I’m scared of birds, but I... |
JMur | 05/25/2016 | 17 | - | - | - |
| ARE VACCINES KILLING BLACK BOYS! The St. Louis Justice Or Else Local Organizing Committee (LOC)
will host a Town Hall Meeting: The Danger of Vaccinations
and you are invited to learn more about this wicked plot against our black boys, in particular.
There will be a special... |
STLNews | 05/25/2016 | 43 | - | - | - |
| Students Stand and Deliver Defeat for Deniers First, in #ExxonkNews, the US Virgin Islands Attorney General has dropped one subpoena for CEI records (in DC) but has kept open the other (in the USVI). What this means is still unclear. More clear is a column from Houston Chronicle’s business and... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 05/25/2016 | 1 | 10 | - | - |
| Robert De Niro talks vaccines – be worried, be very worried I guess this story won’t die. After the huge kerfuffle with respect to the fraudumentary, Vaxxed, you’d think that I wouldn’t have to read anything where Robert De Niro talks vaccines – but alas, he is still pontificating on vaccine issues where he... |
SkepticalRaptor | 05/23/2016 | 29 | 21 | - | - |
| Traditional Chinese medicine kills dolphins I am not a fan of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Very few of its medical claims ever amount to anything. Most of it isn’t very traditional and doesn’t work, like acupuncture. Worse yet, TCM is involved in the destruction of rare animals like... |
SkepticalRaptor | 05/22/2016 | 75 | 30 | - | - |
| Self inflicted Brain Damage! If you missed this (last week), you NEED TO WATCH IT NOW!
We are all “Brain Damaged”, and this is how it happened.
I can not make it any clearer than the crew at The Nightly Show has made it here. If we do not FIX THIS, I would not... |
Sierrareal1 | 05/21/2016 | 6 | 7 | - | - |
| Even Blind, Experts See Flaws in Denier Arguments Before we get to today’s not-Exxon story, a quick announcement: The Center for International Environmental Law has added over 100 new documents to their Smoke and Fumes website of searchable oil industry documents. So if you have an appetite for... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 05/20/2016 | 2 | 7 | - | - |
| GMO's are "Safe", they say. "Is that so?", sez I. Well, I’m no biologist. But I know one.
“Get your PhD!”, I told her! But does she ever listen to me? Darn Millennial ! Graduating this month with a Masters in Biology. Not bad, considering ... |
DainBramage | 05/19/2016 | 72 | 4 | - | - |
| Genetically engineered crops - safe for humans and the environment For the past few years, I’ve posted nearly 50 articles here discussing the relative safety of genetically engineered crops. I’ve debunked myths. I’ve written about massive studies that show that they are safe for humans and animals, and, frankly, also... |
SkepticalRaptor | 05/18/2016 | 421 | 79 | - | - |
| Extensive new report shows GMO crops safe, but not always as beneficial as predicted The National Academy of Sciences has completed a comprehensive report on GMO crops.
The National Academy of Sciences — probably the country's most prestigious scientific group — has reaffirmed its judgment that GMOs are safe to eat …
The... |
Mark Sumner | 05/18/2016 | 192 | 72 | - | - |
| THIS is why I am so unforgiving towards our resident science-deniers....... Recently a poll was released by Fairleigh Dickinson University concerning political conspiracy theories and the propensity of people to believe them:
view2.fdu.edu/...
Most of the press ... |
Lenny Flank | 05/11/2016 | 154 | 41 | - | - |
| Monkey See, Monkey Do, With Philip Morris and Exxon Too “These people are not scientists, they are public-relations people who happen to have degrees in science. These are people who make their living producing results that their clients want. And that’s not science.”
Sounds like a standard... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 05/05/2016 | 9 | 4 | - | - |
| Healthcare Diaries Today & BMJ:Medical Error is 3rd Leading Cause of US Deaths Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US was referenced and linked (full text appears to be publicly readable) by Medscapefree resource: you just have to register yesterday opening with:
Medical error is the third leading... |
mettle fatigue | 05/04/2016 | 9 | 6 | - | - |
| Daily Caller Fiddles with “First” Quibbles as America Burns (or Sinks) In a demonstration of just how desperate his “gotcha” games have gotten, the Daily Caller’s Michael Bastasch has spun an entire story out of a pedantic nitpick about how “Media Outlets Discover ‘America’s First Climate Refugees’—For The 3rd Time 3... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 05/04/2016 | 2 | 7 | - | - |
| Spin is Not Science The following blog is from Charlotte Brody, the BlueGreen Alliance’s Vice President of Health Initiatives.
When does a cancer-causing chemical not cause cancer? When the chemical company says it doesn’t.
That’s the basic problem with (deep... |
bgalliance | 05/03/2016 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Working Hard for the Money: Morano’s US Hustle Premier (and Close) Over the past months, CFACT’s Marc Morano has been working his (cold and probably two sizes too small) heart out to drum up press for his film Climate Hustle, a response to the Merchants of Doubt movie. He’s been plastering sycophantic “reviews,”... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 05/03/2016 | 1 | 3 | - | - |
| Still More Questions for Scientists I have asked a lot of questions of Scientists. You can see previous posts here and here. Why? Because Scientists have the answers. Christian Scientists, para-scientists and political scientists have answers as well, but they are not quite as... |
Tortmaster | 05/03/2016 | 123 | 37 | - | - |
| FRACK you! Colorado Governor overturns will of the people... .
Today’s headlines read
“ Colorado Supreme Court rules against Cities’ Fracking limits”
But that’s not entirely the case.
When John Hickenlooper had the opportunity to appoint a Democrat to the Colorado Supreme court, a.k.a... |
wade norris | 05/02/2016 | 23 | 28 | - | - |
| Harvard mumps outbreak – not a vaccine indictment And here we go again. An outbreak of a vaccine preventable disease is used by the anti-vaccine crowd to indict all vaccines. Recently, the Harvard mumps outbreak has made the news after about 41 students contracted the disease. And myths arise.
... |
SkepticalRaptor | 05/02/2016 | 32 | 28 | - | - |
| Clean Power Plan, Steyer, and McKibben, All in the Crosshairs A Koch-backed bill to protect donors from IRS disclosure has just passed the House Ways and Means committee. This will make it harder for the government to prevent nonprofits from acting as lobbying arms for industry. But even without it, figuring out... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 05/02/2016 | 4 | 8 | - | - |
| 'A typical person is more than five times as likely to die in an extinction event as in a car crash' The Paris climate agreement sounds promising but it came toward the end of Earth's warmest year on record and now in 2016 warming has only gotten stronger. The increase in global temperatures over pre-industrial levels surpassed one degree Celsius in... |
Pakalolo | 04/30/2016 | 30 | 50 | - | - |
| The Cecil Effect-200 Dead Lions And the Failure of Conservation In Zimbabwe some conservationists took a failing cattle ranch, ringed it with very high double fences, and stocked it with wildlife. It’s about a third the size of our Yellowstone and it’s called The Bubye Valley Conservancy. Because of the large size... |
ban nock | 04/30/2016 | 35 | 15 | - | - |
| Daily Caller's Catch-22 for Kerry and Warren In any debate, one crafty way to defeat an opponent is to paint them into a corner where any answer they give is wrong. These sorts of no-win scenarios were made a cultural touchstone in the high school English class staple Catch-22, where insane... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 04/29/2016 | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| U.S. Court of Appeals rejects Kansas creationist appeal over evolution in school The Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE), which is as dumb as it sounds, lost yet again in their fight against science. Ever since Kansas schools were forced to teach science, there have been religious folk who fear that their children will... |
Walter Einenkel | 04/28/2016 | 32 | 31 | - | - |
| Cartoon: Nate the Right Pundit, in 'Skeptic Shock' Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook .
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And/or buy Ruben Bolling’... |
RubenBolling | 04/28/2016 | 66 | 148 | - | - |
| Perennial CO2 Fertilization Hype Blooms with New Study The fact that plants need CO2 to grow is certainly not news for climate scientists, or really anyone with even the most elementree knowledge of biology, so the fact that an increase in CO2 levels can help plants grow is by no means news either. Known... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 04/28/2016 | 7 | 14 | - | - |
| Chernobyl, 30 years later It has been 30 years since the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant released massive amounts of radiation. Humans have been barred from living in the exclusion zone around the complex, though work goes on to contain what’s left, and... |
xaxnar | 04/26/2016 | 10 | 16 | - | - |
| A Request For Information Re Fracking
I am posting this diary specifically to the “Science Matters” and “SciTech” groups, for a specific reason. I must confess that I don’t know jack-diddley-doo about the science or ... |
Lenny Flank | 04/26/2016 | 57 | 15 | - | - |
| Exxon Using Tobacco's Failed Free Speech Defense for Decades of Deception on Climate Change The past week has seen a barrage of opinion pieces carrying water for the fossil fuel industry, defending against the ongoing fraud investigations. The Washington Post had two pieces, Newsweek had one and the Financial Times had an editorial, in... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 04/26/2016 | 5 | 18 | - | - |
| HPV vaccine lowers cancer risk and healthcare costs If you overlook the plain ignorance of junk medicine pushers on the internet, it’s clear that there’s only a few things that you can do to lower your risk of cancer. Quitting tobacco is probably the biggest one. But right up there is the fact that the... |
SkepticalRaptor | 04/24/2016 | 24 | 15 | - | - |
| The Fugitive Methane from Fracking makes it Dirtier than Coal So much for those “Bridge Fuel to Future” claims that rationalized the ongoing high-tech transfusion of proprietary Toxic formulas, for the ground water that nobody needs. All for sake of the EZ-profits that heralded “cleaner than coal” shale gas would... |
jamess | 04/24/2016 | 55 | 28 | - | - |
| Fracking Opponents now have a powerful new Movie -- documenting its many Impacts Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution is Now documents stories from fracking/fossil fuel hotspots in US & the citizen-led fight for clean energy.
Dear President Obama addresses these... |
jamess | 04/23/2016 | 17 | 25 | - | - |
| Vermont AG demands safety data for GMOs and pesticides. Monsanto says "Go to hell. They're safe." WSJ: Game on.
State Attorney General William Sorrell filed motions this week in several U.S. district courts seeking to compel Monsanto Co., DuPont Co., Syngenta AG and other seed firms to produce studies or research related to “potential... |
racerx | 04/21/2016 | 166 | 20 | - | - |
| Got a Smartphone/Tablet? Get Your Science On...For Free OK, I admit it — I’m TOTALLY a cheapskate when it comes to phone/tablet apps.
Sure, part of it is that I have 4 kids, but “money to buy apps” has always been last on the list when it comes to our ‘spending money’. So, long ago, I started paying... |
wesmorgan1 | 04/21/2016 | 18 | 19 | - | - |
| Trofim Lysenko and Soviet Science During the reign of Joseph Stalin, Soviet science was dominated by Trofim Lysenko, who rejected modern science and replaced it with a mishmash of pseudoscience and ideology. His thirty-year reign ... |
Lenny Flank | 04/21/2016 | 59 | 33 | - | - |
| Cato Op-Ed in Newsweek Gives Peek at Weak Paris Critique In what has become an increasingly rare win, a denier-for-hire has gotten an op-ed placed in a mainstream media outlet that isn’t owned by Rupert Murdoch. Paul “Chip” Knappenberger of the Koch-founded and funded Cato Institute writes in... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 04/21/2016 | 1 | 3 | - | - |
| Open letter to Thom Hartmann on the "Vaccine-Autism Link" Thom Hartmann is a liberal talk radio host who I started listening to about a year ago. Recently he has had some people involved in the movie ‘Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe’ on his show. Thom has treated this as an issue worth exploring... |
futurebird | 04/21/2016 | 301 | 143 | - | - |
| Can we feed the world and save the trees? With a world population pushing past seven billion on its way to who knows what, and an increasing demand for farmland, forests around the world are under pressure. Though roughly thirty percent of the world’s land is still covered in forest, in many... |
Mark Sumner | 04/20/2016 | 89 | 72 | - | - |
| Fewer GMO crops planted in 2015, but that doesn't mean they're actually in decline For two decades, the amount of GMO crops planted has been surging. Between 2000 and 2014, the area planted in GMO crops around the world grew from 40 million hectares (about 100 million acres), most of which was in the United States, to more than 180... |
Mark Sumner | 04/20/2016 | 90 | 27 | - | - |
| The Strange Case of the Cyanide Grass In 2012, a pasture full of cows were killed by cyanide poison. But this was not the result of a malicious human act--the poison came from the grass they were eating. And the "killer cyanide grass" ... |
Lenny Flank | 04/19/2016 | 29 | 30 | - | - |
| Moving on... (The actual anniversary of The Hell’s beginning is Wednesday. I thought to post something like this then, but realized the site might be busy with other issues for the next couple of days. So I’ll just leave this here.)
Earlier this month, BP... |
Crashing Vor | 04/19/2016 | 88 | 320 | - | - |
| The Informed Parent – a science based book review There are innumerable myths and tropes about raising children. My mother used to tell me to not go into the pool until 30 minutes (or some random number) after I ate; and she always told me I’d catch the flu or a cold if I didn’t put on a jacket during... |
SkepticalRaptor | 04/18/2016 | 9 | 23 | - | - |
| STL landfill fire is getting close to radioactive waste: What will happen? What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump? St. Louis, Missouri, may the first metropolitan area to find out.
In North St. Louis County, near the St. Louis Airport, and a mile from Pattonville High School, the Westlake... |
gloriasb | 04/18/2016 | 8 | 27 | - | - |
| Institute for Marine Mammal Studies looking into spike in turtle deaths along Gulf Coast The BP Deepwater Horizon spill continues to leave its terrible mark. Marine life numbers have been down in general since the spill, because oil is poison. Recently, a quickly rising number of turtles have been found dead—washed up onshore. The... |
Walter Einenkel | 04/18/2016 | 14 | 8 | - | - |
| Bernie Sanders views on biotechnology – aligned with Republicans I admit that I judge politicians on their science credibility. And I’m rather black and white about it – politicians don’t get to pick and choose what science they “believe” or not. How Bernie Sanders views biotechnology seems irresponsible. And that... |
SkepticalRaptor | 04/18/2016 | 136 | 50 | - | - |
| The $500 million per year climate change obstruction industry Funding actual research costs money, but making up lies? That comes cheap. Still, you have to get those lies out there and repeated, keep the pundits well supplied with catchy phrases, make sure your anti-facts are packaged neatly for the press, and... |
Mark Sumner | 04/15/2016 | 23 | 65 | - | - |
| Test of Controversial Fusion Reactor Ends in Ambiguous Mess A test of Andre Rossi’s controversial low energy (cold) fusion process has ended in a litigious mess. Either there has been a major breakthrough or Mr. Rossi will soon be facing criminal charges for fraud. Here is what we know at present.
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GShaw | 04/14/2016 | 36 | 12 | - | - |
| The anti-vaccine Robert De Niro – you got your doctorate where? I thought this story was dead and buried. The Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro's baby, was going to show the fraudulent documentary (hereinafter, fraudumentary) from the epic fraud himself, Mr. Andy Wakefield’s, fraudulent anti-vaccination movie... |
SkepticalRaptor | 04/14/2016 | 18 | 20 | - | - |
| How "Traditional Chinese Medicine" Is Pushing Species to Extinction Science shows that most of today's "traditional Chinese medicine" is simple quackery. But another consequence of the global "traditional medicine" industry that has not been as widely discussed is ... |
Lenny Flank | 04/14/2016 | 67 | 26 | - | - |
| The more you know about climate change, the more you believe it's us A new meta-analysis* that studied previous meta-analyses of the peer reviewed literature on climate shows that the more a scientist knows about climate science, the more he/she/they are inclined to ... |
tiabanjo | 04/13/2016 | 13 | 12 | - | - |
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