These are all interesting stories, but articles like this contribute to public confusion about what is science and what is not. Curiosity landing on Mars was a great technological achievement, but it wasn’t science, though it may (in fact will, and already has) produce some. Even less science are the Dragon flights to the ISS — again, this is about engineering, not science. And ending invasive research on chimps is a moral breakthrough, perhaps, but it’s not science. In some sense, in fact, it’s anti-science, if one removes ethics from the definition of science.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Only The US Has A Shale Boom
…and only the US has decreased its carbon emissions over the past half decade. And without cap’n’tax or mandates, and despite efforts by the Left to curtail the boom.
Starships And Wormholes
There’s an interesting new book
The Left’s War On Science, Part …
It turns out that fracking is perfectly safe, and the New York state government tried to hide the evidence:
Greens are quick to defend their climate change position with scientific evidence and have positioned themselves as a movement wedded to science. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that evidence is a flag of convenience for a movement that is rooted in emotion and passion far more than it likes to admit.
Because it doesn’t like to admit it at all, even though it’s mostly that.
The War On Science
Testing Compensating Nozzles
John Hare has a question.
Totalitarianism And Mass Murder
Want to know how it happens? It starts like this:
“I have always been opposed to the death penalty in all cases…”
“Even mass murderers [like Breivik] should not be executed, in my opinion.”
“GW deniers fall into a completely different category from Behring Breivik. They are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate.”
Once one is declared an enemy of the people, all becomes possible.
A Very Mannly Christmas
When deception breeds paranoia. I think he really does believe this stuff.
[Evening update]
Michael Mann’s Christmases are now less joyful than at any other time in the last 2,000 years, according to Christmas tree ring data.
[Bumped]
Curbing Gun Violence
…by legalizing drugs.
It will never happen though, because they won’t give up the opportunities for graft.
More On The Mannsuit
This isn’t a new article — it was published at the time the suit was filed in October — but it provides some useful background on one of Friday’s filings.