…is on the verge of being untreatable.
Wonderful.
Michael Mann’s Two Teams
In his mind, it’s the Scientists versus the Deniers. There is no middle ground. And remember, the Department Chairman at the Georgia Institute of Technology is apparently one of the latter.
[Update a few minutes later]
Read this critique of Mann, from one of the Scientists. Though this post will probably get him cast into the pit with the Deniers.
Also, Mark’s latest court filing.
No, Rush
Obama didn’t turn NASA into a Muslim outreach program. (Link may not be viewable to non-members of Ricochet.)
[Friday morning update]
The post is now on the main Ricochet feed, so anyone should be able to view it, if you couldn’t before. Of course, several commenters there are saying “Rush is right!”
The Best Anti-Poverty Agenda
Female @rgasm
There are two kinds.
The science is settled.
The New Federal Dietary Guidelines
…are being written by vegetarian junk scientists:
“After 30 years of waiting, the fact that this committee is addressing sustainability issues brings me a lot of pleasure,” she began. Clancy went on to advocate that Americans should become vegetarians in order to achieve sustainability in the face of “climate change.”
“What pattern of eating best contributes to food security and the sustainability of land air and water?” Clancy asked. “The simple answer is a plant-based diet.”
“Now, this is not new, this idea of how important plant-based diets are has been around for, gosh, 30-40 years,” she said. “Before that for people who long ago were eating vegetarian.”
Clancy said plant-based diets lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and have a “smaller ecological impact” on “drought, climate change, soil erosion, pesticides and antibiotics in water supplies.”
There is zero scientific evidence of cardiovascular disease being caused by eating animals, per se (though corn-fed beef and chicken might be problematic due to omega 6).
Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Historical Knowledge
No, not about Bruno, but about the history of exploration:
There is no nice, clean line between private “buck making” and high-minded government exploration just for the sake of it. From the Wright Brothers making the key advances in aviation to IBM funded Nobel Prize winning basic research, innumerable breakthroughs in science and technology have been led by private non-governmental ventures.
Yes. It’s the post-war government funding that’s been an anomaly, historically. Fortunately, when it comes to spaceflight, that era is ending.
The New Math
Sorry, this seems like a ridiculous way to do subtraction (particularly for that problem which is trivially easy). And I can’t imagine how I’d do it in my head. Borrowing seems a lot easier to me.
Mann Suit Update
Here’s a good explanation of what’s going on legally right now (we’re basically in limbo until the appellate court makes some decisions).
Clueless Scientists
Some thoughts on their foolish political tendencies. And as noted, this Sagan quote is crucial in the “settled climate science” debate:
Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those that tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious who comes ambling along.
“Scientist” isn’t a profession. We are all scientists to one degree or another, if we are successful at every-day living.