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• Bold Claims in Science

  
  New Hampshire Public Radio — Authority: 572
  Making bold predictions is as old as science, but overblown claims could backfire for scientists.
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• EPA to control greenhouse gas emissions

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  We’ve known for some months that the US Environmental Protection Agency considers carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases a danger to public health, and which could as such be subject to regulations similar to those that apply to commonly thought of toxins. Today we have a decision: the EPA has the authority to ...
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• Climate change and green energy technologies

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  Steam rising from the Nesjavellir geothermal power plant in IcelandI find it frustrating to read articles on climate change which insist that the only way forward is to invest massively in new energy technologies. After all, it’s not as if there are serious, expert voices opposing such a move. There is a growing ...
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• That’s not a “Little Planet”, it’s a dwarf planet..

  
  Slugger O'Toole — Authority: 154
  If you thought the last honk for Pluto was to be heard in the Illinois Senate , you’d be wrong.  From the Professor comes news of the perfect Christmas gift for your inner space geek.  MSNBC’s Cosmic Log’s Alan Boyle’s The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference .  Available at all ...
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• Unfortunate metaphor of climate change

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  He was making a good point, but UK energy secretary Ed Miliband might have chosen a better form of words than…“We need to have our foot on the gas all the time.”…when warning of the dangers of complacency in the Copenhagen climate summit.Quite amusing, though.
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• Unfortunate metaphors of climate change

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  He was making a good point, but UK energy secretary Ed Miliband might have chosen a better form of words than…“We need to have our foot on the gas all the time.”…when warning of the dangers of complacency in the Copenhagen climate summit.Quite amusing, though.
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• Climate science 101: nothing is certain

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  One of the questions often asked of scientists concerns their level of confidence in the claim that human behaviour influences the Earth’s climate. Yesterday on BBC radio this question was posed to Ed Miliband, the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Miliband, who is not a scientist by training, ...
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• “for the promoting of Experimentall Philosophy”

  
  Slugger O'Toole — Authority: 154
  The Royal Society has cracked open its archive again , although they’ve left the doors on their hinges - unlike the last time. In fact, there are only a handful of articles, 60 from over 60,000 in the archive, available to download on the Society’s Trailblazing site to commemorate its 350th anniversary ...
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• Scientists Respond to "Climategate" E-Mail Controversy

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  With all the "hot air" surrounding climate change discussions, none has been hotter in recent weeks than that spewed over a trove of stolen e-mails and computer code from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in England. Longstanding contrarians, such as Sen. James Inhofe (R–Okla.), who ...
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• “What an arsehole!”

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  
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• Readers Respond on "What Now for Nuclear Waste?"

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Terrible Thing to Waste One of the most important messages in Matthew L. Wald’s “ What Now for Nuclear Waste? ” is that we really have several options for handling nuclear waste. All the options, whether aboveground storage for a couple of hundred years until we decide on the next step, reprocessing fuel to ...
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• Slicing a famous brain, streamed live on the web

  
  Transcription and Translation — Authority: 411
  Im siting at my breakfast table when I read this in the NY Times science section: Dissection Begins on Famous Brain The man who could not remember has left scientists a gift that will provide insights for generations to come: his brain, now being dissected and digitally mapped in exquisite detail. The man, ...
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• Nature goes on the attack

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  A robust response to the climate denialists currently all over the news bulletins can be found in an editorial in tomorrow’s edition of Nature. With a few sharp words based on indisputable scientific fact, Nature summarises why anthropogenic greenhouse gases are almost certainly the cause of observed global warming, ...
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• Prescription errors are easily made | Ann Robinson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  A new report finds 8% of junior doctors prescriptions are wrong. No wonder – getting drugs right in hospital is a minefield Junior hospital doctors make mistakes in about 8% of the prescriptions they write for hospital patients according to a study commissioned by the General Medical Council (GMC). In the 19 ...
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• Climate denialism as anti-politics

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  Today in an email forum for science communication professionals, a member cited an article by Guardian art critic and Turner Prize jurist Jonathan Jones. The piece discusses the London Science Museum’s current climate change exhibition, and an opinion poll conducted by the museum on the imminent Copenhagen ...
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• Climate denialist big guns to gate-crash Copenhagen

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  I’ve just received from an American PR firm a press release which announces with fanfare that the loony-right lobby group CFACT is to send a team of “10 climate policy experts” to the Copenhagen Climate Summit, which begins next week in the currently dank and dismal Danish capital.The style of the press release ...
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• Loving Old Europe For What it Was

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 534
  Source: New York Times You can forget about old Europe , but you cannot deny the existence of an old old Europe that predates pretty much everything we think we know. Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower ...
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• Shit storm over Copenhagen

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  He has a new book to plug, does NASA climatologist and sexagenarian dad James Hansen, but I have no hesitation in providing him with free PR. Hansen is a good man, and even though he may not be right in all he says about solutions to man-made climate change, Hansen has as much right as [...]
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• White hat bias will make you fat … or not

  
  Francis Sedgemore — Authority: 469
  If you’ve ever found yourself questioning media reports that display evidence of medical researchers reinforcing each others’ work in an unscientific manner, then your feelings may be based on more than a hunch.Take obesity, for example. Your powers of observation should confirm that we are, by and large, getting ...
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• Skunk users face risk of psychosis

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Skunk, the powerful form of cannabis dominating the street drug market, is seven times more likely to cause psychosis than ordinary cannabis, scientists say today. The study, by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, is the first to look specifically at the effects of skunk. Dr Marta Di Forti and Prof ...
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