This is an open thread to discuss whatever your heart desires. I am preparing for a road trip and will not be able to do much blogging for a couple of weeks, although I will check in daily to see what is up and check for spam. I did want to post a link to […]
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Archive | February, 2011
Skeptic Faux Pas
February 27, 2011 
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This is entirely yours. Post whatever Skeptic, Denier and Contrarian Faux Pas you find with appropriate citations of course. Have at it! Let’s get it on record.
Continue readingThe Jeanne d’Arc of Science
February 23, 2011 128 Comments
Over at Climate etc., Judith Curry has gone off the deep end decided to boost her hit count smear climate science chum like crazy address “hide the decline”. In doing so, she smears climate scientists involved in producing the IPCC AR4 and the WMO 1999 report. Bad science and/or dishonesty? There is no question that […]
Continue readingOn Diamonds, Honour and High School Fairy Tales
February 19, 2011 82 Comments
In Canada, high school students receive guidance counselling in their senior year in order to assist them as they decide what to do after graduation. I went to my guidance session and my counsellor asked me what I wanted to do after June. I was a good student — a few A+s, a few B+s, […]
Continue readingTwo Minutes of Denialist Chumming
February 15, 2011 130 Comments
“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, […]
Continue readingWhen Science Becomes Politics by Other Means
February 13, 2011 87 Comments
This blog is about the social and political dimensions of the climate wars. As a trained social scientist, that is my main interest and proper subject matter. I have no insight to offer on the quality of the science but I recognize that the science is what really matters. Unfortunately, the science — truth, facts, […]
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The Policy Lass 
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