More junk food science (not junk-food science).
People who do these studies don’t seem to understand statistics, or know how to do studies.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Complex Societies
Why they need simple laws.
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Are regulations strangling the economy? Samuelson thinks so.
The East Antarctica Ice Sheet
Another nail in the socialist Doomsters’ coffin.
Derbyshire
Well, this sucks, big time. Hope he can beat it.
Don’t Know Much About History
In attacking his critics as “flat earthers,” Obama screws up.
Yes, people who, unlike him, actually understand the math and physics (and business prospects) of alternative and conventional energy are “flat earthers.” Once again, the man is impervious to irony. And how insufferable this kind of thing is.
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Heh: “Obama in Tucson & today: “Make sure we talk with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds, you Flat-earthers.”
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Where Obama gets his history.
Doesn’t explain the Rutherford B. Hayes slander though. And against a man who was wounded four times freeing Obama’s ancestors. Wait, what?
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Don’t know much about energy, either. The US has sixty times as much oil as Obama claims.
It’s almost as though he just makes stuff up.
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#BarackObamasPresidentialFacts:
“Purple Hayes” was the first Jim Hendrix song about a president.
They’re hilarious. I think I’ll steal MfK’s from comments and add it to the mix.
Un-Manned
The Journal takes on the Jerry Sandusky of climate science:
…for all his caviling about “smear campaigns,” “conspiracy theorists” and “character assassination,” Mr. Mann is happy to employ similar tactics against his opponents. Patrick Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists and a past program chair of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Applied Climatology, is introduced as “a prominent climate change contrarian at the University of Virginia primarily known for his advocacy for the fossil fuel industry.” (Nowhere does Mr. Mann explain why a scientist might be more easily corrupted by a check from, say, a coal company than by one from a politically controlled institution.)
Instead of molesting children, though, he molests the data and his critics. But unlike Sandusky, Penn State continues to whitewash it.
That Latest Meat Study
Gary Taubes comments on the pseudoscience behind it.
Demon Coal In Canada
The CBC comes to its senses on climate change. I hope that this is a trend.
Who Wrote The Heartland Memo?
The preponderance of evidence indicates that it was Gleick. That’s certainly the way I’d bet. As commenters note, is this enough to justify a lawsuit?
Vitamin D
It’s looking more and more like it’s one of the most important vitamins, and modern lifestyles don’t provide enough of it naturally.