Due to underwhelming demand, and something not entirely dissimilar to the silence of a distant clamour, I announce the periodic return of the Ask A Scientific Ethicist column. These columns (example, example, […]
How Expertism & The Woke Spreads In Science
The New England Journal of Medicine isn’t exactly what its name indicates. It does tend to concentrate on publishing articles on various aspects of medicine. But it also engages in politics. Which […]
Bring Back Global Warming — Guest Post by Richard Law
‘Rio de Janeiro is a city in South America. It is the capital of Brazil. It exports coffee and sugar. It has a tropical climate’, so wrote the first form Richard in […]
Mark Steyn Vs. The Appalling Michael Mann — Guest Post by Richard Law
I met Steyn once at one of the bigger sober global warming meetings. Back when we still called it global warming. I think he was just then beginning his troubles with the […]
The Vatican’s New Exhortation On “Climate Change” Has Many Errors
The Vatican issued a new Apostolic Exhortation, given in the name of Pope Francis, entitled Laudate Deum. The document is addressed “To all people of good will on the climate crisis.” There […]
How Zealots Rise To The Top: Global Warming & Transanity Examples
The main reason you can be assured global warming of doom, a.k.a. climate change, is yet another slow-burn moral panic is that scientists in charge of its theory can never, in public, […]
Propagandists Boast Of Finagling Wikipedia: Here’s How To Have Wikipedia Revenge
It is good to take pride in your work. It is good, too, to show enthusiasm. And when a job has been completed in an exemplary fashion, it is sometimes well to […]
Elena Kagan’s Blind Love Of The Expertocracy: SCOTUS Slaps The EPA
SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that, in effect, without Congressional authorization, the EPA does not have the power to regulate carbon dioxide. Justice Elena Kagan dissented. Kagan opened her dissent thus (whole opinion; with […]
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