VIDEO: Professor Ian Plimer, Author of Heaven and Earth – Global Warming, The Missing Science with Brian Carlton.
“What we’re dealing with, with human-induced climate change, is one group of scientists. They are the atmospheric scientists, and they have taken the atmosphere completely out of the Earth, ocean, ice, life, sun, and heavens, and just tortured [...]
Political blog Huffington Post is credulous of all kinds of woo-woo nonsense. The latest is on alternative remedies for flu (via Respectful Insolence):
The good news is that there are many alternative medicines, herbs, and treatments that can be quite effective in the fight against a wide variety of viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, to which mainstream [...]
Recently, some science bloggers debunked a series of articles in the Australian. Today The Australian defends itself. (hat tip Tim B).
Meanwhile Tim Lamberts Deltoid blog has been busy finding mistakes in Plimer’s book. He’s up to 59.
I read the 59 errors, and did quick classification. By my count,
12 are for missing citations or errors [...]
Also tagged climate, global warming, ian plimerOver at Scienceblogs, they love the word “debunked.” These days it’s not good enough to counter, refute, dispute, respond, or retort, you have to debunk. It’s a word reminiscent of Houdini exposing two-penny psychics or a nineteenth century mayor running a shonky salesman out of town. The intent, of course, is to portray oneself as [...]
Also tagged climate, global warming, ian plimer, word useageA large scale study has identified an increased risk of eating disorders among young vegetarians as among meat-eaters of the same age.
The study, called Project EAT-II: Eating Among Teens, surveyed over 2,500 teens and young adults on their eating habits.
Each participant was questioned about binge eating, whether they felt a loss of control of their [...]
Legendary theorist and and scientist, Freeman Dysan, has recieved a stream of vitriol in his inbox ever since outing himself as a Global Warming Sceptic, according to the New York Times.
He does not hide his scorn for Al Gore, suggesting he should use his influence to solve problems that actually exist, like overfishing.
On polar bears: [...]