Science and Society

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• How Wide-Spread Is The Damage?

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  I’m certainly not familiar with the literature, but I’m sure that a lot of people out there are, and I hope that they’re starting to survey just how far-reaching the destruction of the recent revelations from East Anglia and Happy Valley are to the “settled science” of climate change. In theory, someone ...
  15 hours ago

• More reality science ideas

  
  NeuroDojo — Authority: 133
  Quite a while ago (Sometimes I forget how long I’ve been blogging), I wrote an article about reality television shows for scientists . A while back, Bitesize Bio took up the torch with a new list of science reality shows we should have, but don’t. I particularly liked: Research project with the stars : ...
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• Field testing electric cars

  
  Physics Today News Picks — Authority: 480
  Wired.com : BMW has revealed the early results of field tests of its electric Mini which it leases to 450 people for nearly $900 per month. Displaying considerable candor, BMW North America manager of electric vehicle operations and strategy Rich Steinberg said the small-scale rollout was more difficult than ...
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• “There Was Proof Of Fraud All Along”

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  Vincent Gray:In 1999, I had a stroke of luck. I asked one of the IPCC officials for the data from which one of their maps was compiled, and I received it. I wrote a paper analyzing the results, and submitted it to Geophysical Research Letters. They just sat on it. I instead published it on [...]
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• Richard Dawkins in Auckland next March

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 510
  This guy leads an extremely busy life. I know he is promoting his recently published books The Greatest Show on Earth and consequently gets into book tours. But his publishers certainly work him hard. Next March (Wednesday 10th) he is speaking in Wellington during the Writers and Readers Week at the NZ ...
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• Some Real Discussion Of Climate-Change Science

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  Over at Steve McIntyre’s place. It’s a lot better than the “peer-reviewed” stuff, mainly because they aren’t drinking their own bathwater. And speaking of which, I’m disappointed, but not really surprised, at Jeff Masters, whose hurricane opinions I value a great deal, and his latest ad hominem attack. ...
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• Weaseling Roundup

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  James Delingpole has some choice excerpts of the charlatans’ response to their charade being exposed.
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• The Warning Signs

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  We should have seen this debacle coming:Given the recent events, though, it seems to me that we need to develop methods that can alert us to situations where the consensus position is faulty. In the case of climate research, there were numerous such clues that were available five or more years ago which should [...]
  3 days ago

• Charles Darwin Has Been Sighted In Pune

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 457
  Its been 150 years - November 24th 1859 - that Darwins book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life was published. The British Library on Fergusson College Road, Pune, has a poster exhibit on the theory of evolution. There are 14 poster ...
  3 days ago

• In Which I Develop A Strange New Respect

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  …for George Monbiot:…his message looks awful. It gives the impression of confirming a potent meme circulated by those who campaign against taking action on climate change: that the IPCC process is biased. However good the detailed explanations may be, most people aren’t going to follow or understand them. ...
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• Another Rock Has Been Turned Over

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  It looks like the Kiwis have been manipulating the climate data as well. I wonder how much of this is copycat crime — if you’re getting dramatically different results than the “official” ones being funded in East Anglia by IPCC, how much pressure is there to make them conform?[Update a few minutes later]I ...
  3 days ago

• Science, And Politics

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  Some thoughts from John Derbyshire:That’s the spirit of scientific humility. You get a conceptual model that works — fits known data, and has strong explanatory and predictive power — and you work with it to uncover new truths, always understanding that it might yield to some better theory.It’s an ideal, of ...
  4 days ago

• Persistent Vegetative States and the Problem with Facilitated Communication

  
  Scepticon — Authority: 112
  If you read the print version of the NZ Herald today you would have seen featured on the front page a miraculous case of a man recovering from a persistent vegetative state and communicating with the world through a touch screen with the help of a carer. The topic of persistent vegetative state (PVS) is an interesting ...
  4 days ago

• Climate Researchers In The Mist

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  Hey, what did I say about thermonuclear-level mockery? Iowahawk has already stepped up to the job.
  4 days ago

• “Peer-Reviewed” “Science”

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  I would think that the concept of peer review just took a big credibility hit, too, or should, now that we know how it really works.
  4 days ago

• Diamonds Are A Drivers Best Friend

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 634
  Missouri can proudly claim it is first in the nation - first to test a new "diverging diamond" interchange that improves traffic flow by eliminating problematic left turns. Sound boring? I admit, the story didnt jump out at me at first. But the myriad diagrams with tiny cars moving across the screen got me hooked, and ...
  4 days ago

• The Wooden Stake

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  Senator Inhofe says that Copenhagen and cap’ntax are deader than doornails:Following the worldwide attention on the leaked CRU e-mails, Inhofe says that he still plans to go to the Copenhagen conference on climate change next month. He also says that cap-and-trade legislation is “dead in the Senate.”“I’ll be ...
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• The Politics Of Science

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  Some thoughts on Climaquiddick over at The New Atlantis:In his “Memorandum on Scientific Integrity” from earlier this year, President Obama stated that it is the function of “science and the scientific process” to “inform and guide” his administration on virtually every issue from health care to national ...
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• Helium shortage slows nuclear bomb detection program

  
  Physics Today News Picks — Authority: 480
  NYTimes.com : The Department of Homeland Security has spent $230 million to develop better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs but has had to stop deploying the new machines because the United States has run out of helium-3. “I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable,” ...
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• Desperation

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 148
  Brenden O’Neill reviews a climate change exhibit at the Science Museum of London:…That we are expected to sit and stare at this “Sun,” to be passive recipients of some higher wisdom from a disc hovering above our heads, speaks volumes about how environmentalists view both “science” and ordinary people’s ...
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