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Pathological junk cargo cult voodoo and just plain bad science
Is there any validity to the science behind global warming? If you believe the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) there’s no doubt that the science behind global climate change is solid; if...
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Another reason to avoid the dentist?
As the grandson and nephew of dentists I was probably the only kid at school who actually enjoyed going to the dentist. In fact, it wasn’t until I joined the Navy that I understood why my classmates...
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The plots thicken
A couple of weeks ago the Associated Press ran a story that seemed to confirm the world’s fears about Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. Central to the story was a plot (shown here) that showed,...
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Talk science to me
Tom Weller’s Science Made Stupid has my vote as one of the funniest books I’ve read. The only problem is that anymore it seems to be more of a description of Americans’ understanding of science rather...
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Thank goodness for our schools
Just a short piece this week – the holiday has kept things pretty busy and I’m jotting this down before leaving for a professional meeting. One of the less-covered of recent terrorism-related stories...
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Once more into the breach
I’d been planning on waiting a little longer before returning to the topics of Fukushima and radiation health effects, but a particularly egregiously bad New York Times op-ed piece deserves some...
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A foolish consistency
Consistency is good – there’s a sense of security in knowing that some things will generally remain constant over time. We can always count on gravity, for example, to hold us firmly to the ground;...
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In closing
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, in an appendix to the report on the loss of...
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