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Category Archives: Media Criticism
As An Energy Secretary…
…Steven Chu is a great scientist. But there’s nothing in his experience or education that would equip him for running a federal department, or to be a competent venture capitalist with other peoples’ money, and with billions of losses to the taxpayer and energy prices going through the roof, it shows. The notion that he deserves anything short of an F is laughable.
Grad School
…and the career lies.
I think this bubble is starting to pop.
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.
Incitement To Murder
The descent of Bruce Springsteen. I was never much of a fan.
They Want Us To Shut Up
…and we want them to keep talking. Seriously, WTF difference does it make if a majority of people want Rush Limbaugh fired? It’s not their decision to make. As long as he has listeners and sponsors, he’ll stay on the air.
Colliers
It’s coming back, after fifty-five years.
One of the many notable things it did was to introduce America to space, in collaboration with von Braun, before the Disney shorts. Maybe they’ll consider an update as part of their relaunch.
Demon Coal In Canada
The CBC comes to its senses on climate change. I hope that this is a trend.
The Russian Moon Mission
I find it hard to take seriously pronouncements of government plans to do something almost two decades from now. That’s a long time, and a lot of things can happen, both technologically and politically, to either accelerate it or put it off even further. I continue to think that the first mission back to the moon will be private, because unlike the government, there are people in that sector who actually want to do it, and they have the resources.