Good point being made here. It could be said that scientists and Republicans are the opposites of one another; in fact, most of the people in the U.S. who reject scientific evidence on things like climate change, vote counting, and …
Category: Renewables – Science
I Thought Nothing Coming from Herschel Walker Would Surprise Me, Until ….
No one expects professional football players to be atmospheric scientists, but can’t we hope that they’ll simply keep their mouths shut? If I tried to tell an elementary school child that our clean air is going to China and that …
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Tagged with: atmospheric scientists
We Need To Stay Away From Right-Wing Propaganda
A friend is calling for President Joe Biden to be impeached, based on his failure to provide Americans with enough cheap energy. As source material, he cites this piece from Tucker Carlson. I reply:
Walking the Line Between a Bad Idea and a Scam
How much value would it add to your life if you could use your phone to access the precise weather conditions at your home at any given time? Here’s a device that will set you back $329 that you can …
Questioning the Science
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: unfortunately this concept has been disregarded for the last couple of years. Obviously, science “happens” when people with the appropriate background and training call into question today’s beliefs and offer new hypotheses for …
Tagged with: questioning science
What Makes Our Life Meaningful?
I hope the author of the meme here doesn’t judge the value of his life by his success or failure on any of this. I don’t want to sound cynical, but there is no reason to believe humankind evolved here …
Judging American Intelligence
What Lincoln wrote here is a much more eloquent statement of what I like to say about current-day Americans, i.e., OK, we’re stupid, but we’re not that stupid. Every time I’ve gone down this line, I’ve eaten crow. We live …
Psychiatric Drugs and Gun Violence
As suggested at left, some folks believe that psychiatric drugs cause gun violence, reasoning that many shooters are, in fact, on such drugs. Apparently it doesn’t occur to them that anyone who commits such a crime is mentally ill, and …
Tagged with: gun violence
Banning Abortion Is Problematic To People of Reason
The anti-abortion folks have a ton of problems if they are to back up their beliefs with rational thought. Here’s one of them.
Avoiding the Next Pandemic
Unless you’re a QAnoner and you believe Bill Gates is trying to enslave the world’s population, you regard him as one of Earth’s most effective philanthropists, primarily for his work in infectious diseases. His current focus is helping our civilization …
