Physical Science

Climate Scientist Forced Out in ‘McCarthy’-style Witch-Hunt

(PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC) – At first glance this simple question appears to be lifted from a first year, undergraduate class in meteorology, because everyone who has even a rudimentary understanding of the thermodynamics of the atmosphere knows that water vapor decreases the lapse rate (more…)

Is Kirchhoff’s Law Valid?

(WASHINGTON TIMES) – Patrick Moore, a Canadian ecologist who was a member of Greenpeace from 1971-86, told members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee environmental groups like Greenpeace use faulty computer models and scare tactics in fur (more…)

(THE ECONOMIST) – “I SEE a train wreck looming,” warned Daniel Kahneman, an eminent psychologist, in an open letter last year. The premonition concerned research on a phenomenon known as “priming”. Priming studies suggest that decisions can be influenced by apparently irrelevant actions or events that took place just before the cusp of choice. They have been a boom area in psychology over the past decade, and some of their in (more…)

28 Aug (Gary Null) – African history Prof. Charles Geshekter says that “… much of what is claimed about AIDS in Africa is not only based on weak statistics and dubious numbers, but it’s also based on a kind of r (more…)

13 Aug (INDEPENDENT SCIENCE NEWS) – Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences. That is the finding of a new study reported (more…)

1 Aug (TOP DOCUMENTARY FILMS) – The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the UK when it premiered on Channel 4 in 2010.  According to Martin Durkin’s documentary, the chief cause of climate change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the sun. (more…)

23 Jan (FORBES) – Those of us concerned about the decaying credibility of Big Science were dismayed to learn that the whistleblower site Science Fraud has been shut down due to a barrage of legal threats against its operator.  With billions of dollars in federal science funding hinging on the integrity of academic researchers, and billions more in health care dollars riding on the truthfulness of pharmaceutical research claims, the industry needs more websites like this, not fewer. (more…)

15 Jan – As vaccine-induced diseases and injuries continue to rise, including the vaccine induced paralysis from the polio vaccine in India and Nigeria, the FDA, CDC, WHO and pharmaceutical companies push forward to force the vaccination of everyone with toxic concoctions.  In this recent interview, Andrew Maniotis PhD answers the following questions: (more…)

19 Sep (The Grocer UK) – The world’s best-selling weedkiller, and a genetically modified maize resistant to it, can cause tumours, multiple organ damage and lead to premature death, new research published today reveals. In the first ever study to examine the long-term effects of Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, or the NK603 Roundup-resistant GM maize also developed by Monsanto, scientists found that rats exposed to even the smallest amounts, developed mammary tumours and severe liver and kidney damage as early as four months in males, and seven months for females, compared with 23 and 14 months respectively for a control group. (more…)

8 Sep (THE AUSTRALIAN) – Once upon a time, being peer-reviewed simply meant you had written something, usually a journal article, and some other people in your profession had read it and considered it fit for publication.   Not any more.  (more…)

12 Jul (JGU) – An international team including scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the climate in northern Europe over the last 2,000 years based on the information provided by tree-rings.  Professor Dr. Jan Esper’s group (more…)

19 APRIL (ARGENTINA) – The fact that politics, incompetence and corruption have replaced scientific integrity is nothing new.  Researchers like C. Glenn Begley and John Ioannidis have described how junk science permeates publishied reports, which has led indirectly to efforts like Timothy Gowers boycott against publishing giant Elsevier. (more…)

16 April (NY Times) – Naoki Mori, the Japanese cancer researcher who has had 30 papers retracted by scientific journals, was asked to give his side of the story.  In an e-mail, he acknowledged that his colleagues “were lax in certain regards in the preparation of papers,” but he denied having committed a grave offense. (more…)

31 Jan – A protest against Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific journal publisher, is rapidly gaining momentum since it began as an irate blog post at the end of January.  By Tuesday evening, about 2,400 scholars (more…)

OTTAWA — Two top U.S. hurricane forecasters, famous across Deep South hurricane country, are quitting the practice of making a seasonal forecast in December because it doesn’t work.  William Gray and Phil Klotzbach say a look back shows their past 20 years of forecasts had no predictive value. (more…)

4 Oct 2011 – SANE Vax Inc. was organized to provide medical consumers with all of the information they need to make informed choices about vaccines, HPV vaccines in particular.  Dr. Sin Hang Lee, Director of Milford Medical Laboratory Inc. has been instrumental in SANE Vax” efforts to raise consumer awareness regarding (more…)

WASHINGTON — The military’s premier crime lab has botched more of its evidence testing than has been previously known, raising broader questions about the quality (more…)

13 May|Big Government – One  of the big threats from the global warming moonbat types is that a rise in temperature will melt the polar ice caps causing the oceans to rise, with the cataclysmic result of skyscrapers being under water.  Let’s face it, if you think that the commute into Manhattan is bad now…. just wait. (more…)

Consider the Oldbury wind turbine, which WattsUpWithThat.com  reveals was installed a couple of years ago at a primary school in the Midlands at a cost of £5000 sterling plus Vicious Additional Taxation at 17.5% (US $9694 in all). (more…)

In the early 90s the Agro-Chemicals-Multi Monsanto introduced genetically modified plants onto the market, which is the equivalent of an agricultural revolution for some that will solve all the world’s food problems. Others view these plants as an irrevocable destruction of bio-diversity on this planet that needs to be fiercely combated. (more…)

ATLANTA (AP) — Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of (more…)