Twelve questions about climate that he refuses to answer.
Because this actually has very little to do with actual science.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Heading to Missouri
Patricia’s mother died on Friday morning after a long decline, and the church service is scheduled for Monday morning in Columbia. We’re at LAX now waiting to board. I’ll have my laptop with me, so I’ll be blogging. I’ll be heading to Seattle straight from there Monday evening for the Newspace conference.
Jeff Bezos And Space
I’m surprised at the degree to which I agree with his views. Yes, we definitely need space nuclear reactors, and science cannot justify a human mission to Mars.
This Morning’s Landing Attempt
Loren Grush has the story. So their streak is over, but this is how you learn and improve.
NASA’s Mars Recruitment Posters
I think that these are a cruel fraud on a young generation.
The Islamic State
The best strategy may be to take advantage of the natural paranoia of the region and culture, and destroy it from within.
Generation Ships
Would it be moral to send one?
There are at least two flawed assumptions in this piece.
Guns And Muslims
I agree with Michael Totten, banning either of them is not the answer to Orlando.
An RD-180 Agreement
This should buy ULA enough time to get Vulcan flying.
A New Breakthrough In The Annals Of Academic Ethics
A new definition of research misconduct:
My previous post illustrated numerous ethical conflicts that can arise for researchers. But when it comes to conflicts between your conscience and your colleagues, or the public and your colleagues, any perceived responsibility to your colleagues has to take a back seat.
But it seems that in academic science, responsibility to your colleagues and their opinions, their declarations of consensus, their reputations, is apparently regarded by many researchers as the paramount consideration, viz. the circling of the wagons that occurred in Climategate.
This concern about ‘responsibility’ to your colleagues seems only to extend to colleagues who happen to agree with you.
Academic science, and academia in general, is very, very sick.