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Category Archives: General Science
On The Vaccines
None of these things are logically incompatible or (in my opinion) untrue:
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) September 3, 2025
The vaccine announcement was delayed for political reasons to help Biden win the election.
The vaccines were beneficial for people at high risk.
The vaccines were unnecessary for young people at low… https://t.co/QDy6OvLPh1
Related: How the CDC’s double standards cost it our trust, and how hard it will (and should) be to win it back.
Tom Lehrer
Remembering “my mischievous friend.”
My parents had the “An Evening Wasted With…” album.
The Climate Movement
The bad science and bad policy at the heart of it.
[Afternoon update]
Climate science is baaaaack.
This is one of the biggest (and most needed) regulatory rollbacks in history.
More from Ed Morrissey and Stephen Green.
News On The Mann Front
New: DC Court orders climate scientist Michael Mann to pay $477,350.80 to the @ceidotorg and @Rand_Simberg in Mann’s long-running libel action.
— Andrew M. Grossman (@andrewmgrossman) May 22, 2025
That’s on top of the $530,000 Mann was ordered to pay to National Review in January.https://t.co/BxvzbI7fz3
[Friday-morning update]
The worm has turned.
[Update Saturday morning]
An actual news report in Pennsylvania.
[Update]
[Update a few minutes later]
More over at WattsUpWithThat.
This is the best reporting on the legal situation so far, but I hope that at some point Jonathan Adler weighs in.
Lunar Water
An interesting essay. I’m working with several people to pursue LASSO. It’s primarily a tech demo for low-altitude lunar orbit, but if it works, we could get a good map of the resource.
The Climate Apocalypse
…punctured. A new paper from Judith Curry.
Reforming NASA
I largely agree with these recommendations. I doubt if there’s been any serious discussion with OMB about NASA.
Looking For Water On The Moon
Jurassic Park, Here We Come
SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024.
— Colossal Biosciences® (@colossal) April 7, 2025
The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using… pic.twitter.com/wY4rdOVFRH
I suspect they went extinct because the Siberian-Americans wiped out their food supply. It seems to me that the next de-extinctions should be woolly mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, and ancient bison, to give them worthy prey. There’s apparently no record of them being north of 42 degrees, but that’s probably because it was covered in ice at their time.