Opponents of clean energy claim that adding more renewable sources to the grid mix makes it unreliable–but is that true? A recent report from Yale 360, published by the Yale School of the Environment, takes on this important question. A great deal …
Grid Reliability and Renewable Energy — Dispelling a Few Myths Read More »
As suggested here, the QAnoners of the world have a handy defense, one that’s going to be hard to beat. They claim that the fact-checkers that expose their ideas as silly and baseless were actually put in place because their …
No Quick and Easy End to QAnon-Style Conspiracy Theorists Read More »
Here’s another good statement on science and the limits of our understanding. Whatever the proportion of known to unknown may be, one thing is certain: it’s always improving.
When you think about it, the meme here makes the exact opposite point it’s intended to. In all four cases, business created and marketed a product, only to have science come along and study it, determine it was dangerous, and …
A few years ago we had the “March for Science,” and it occurred to me that most of the people who participated in it were pretty bright folks. It would be interesting to know their average IQ; I would speculate …
American toddlers in the mid-1950s wore “baby shoes” like the pair shown here. It turned out that the theory that young feet needed external support in order to walk properly was later discredited. Yet, to have insinuated itself into our …
Science Gets It Right, But Not Always Immediately Read More »
Perhaps indeed. Keep in mind, however that voters in states that are economic and moral hellholes are almost completely unconcerned about “quality of life” as you and I might define it. They want their state white, Christian, deregulated, science-blind, and …
This is an interesting observation. One wonders about the future of monotheism in a world that is increasingly scientific, though barbaric at the same time. Personally, I don’t think that individual horrific periods of time, e.g., the Spanish Inquisition, that …
Re: the meme here, it’s clear that we’ve lost a great deal of ground since 1993, as if we need another reminder. A cosmetologist told me today that vaccines are a hoax because people can still get COVID even after …
If and when we make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we need to expect huge differences between the evolution of their civilization and that of our own. The meme here brings up an interesting idea: What if we the people demanded …
