Faster, please.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Another Private Mars Venture
These people want to set up at the pole. “Looking for alien life” doesn’t seem compatible with settlement, though, unless you don’t care if you contaminate or wipe it out.
Cholesterol
Matt Wridley has a brief history of how it’s not bad for you. And this is worth repeating in the context of climate “science”:
If challenged to show evidence for low-cholesterol advice, the medical and scientific profession has tended to argue from authority — by pointing to WHO guidelines or other such official compendia, and say “check the references in there”. But those references lead back to Keys and Framingham and other such dodgy dossiers. Thus does bad science get laundered into dogma. “One of the great commandments of science is ‘Mistrust arguments from authority’,” said Carl Sagan.
Similarly, mistrust people who talk about “consensus” and quote fake statistics on how many scientists believe something.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link is fixed now.
Bill Nye, Climate Guy
Yes, obviously the Texas flooding is caused by our SUVs:
For climate scientists like Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the link to a warming planet was obvious.
“When you have a warmer atmosphere, then you have the capability to hold more water vapor,” Ekwurzel explained. “When storms organize, there’s much more water you can wring out of the atmosphere compared to the past.”
So I guess that would explain all the recent flooding in California, too.
Oh, wait.
Bill Nye
The Constitution guy?
I can't decide what Bill Nye is more ignorant of — science, or the Constitution: http://t.co/h1Oi4EBpR8
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) May 26, 2015
The Case Against Science
“Much of it, perhaps half, is untrue.”
The incentives are quite screwed up.
John Nash
He and his wife were killed in an auto accident. A tragic end to a tragic life, but one lived as well as possible.
Human-Caused Climate Change
Did it cause the war in Syria?
This is so stupid to me, that the question isn’t even worth asking.
A Pill Of Superheavy Protective Fat
Could it prolong youth?
I’d take it, but I want one that reverses the process. Within limits, of course.
Jeb Bush On Climate
I’m don’t want him to be the nominee, but I agree with what he said. Judith Curry has unearthed an essay from over a century ago that explains the current problem with climate science.