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The media's climate frenzy was sparked by a scientist who's research was still unpublished.
Doing the math on doing the laundry.
A friend has long complained that her energy efficient, front-load washing machine takes forever.
Species come and species go. Humanity's role is smaller than most of us imagine.
Causing real harm with no realistic chance of improving the world makes no sense.
Polluted waterways are one more reason not to litter. Rather than making this point, greens are demonizing plastic.
Politicians & 10-year-olds think banning drinking straws in rich nations will address improper garbage disposal in poor ones.
People with 8 kids should be told they "surely would not behave that way today." Those considering a third should be accused of self-indulgence.
If it had been within his power to take the steps he insisted were necessary, the human rights abuses would have been horrendous.
Saving the world = demonizing alternative visions
Paul Ehrlich advocated the use of US helicopters so that Indian peasants could be kidnapped & forcibly sterilized.
Threats of famine, dead children, bombs, nuclear war, and oblivion.
Another idea, supposedly confirmed by science, turns out to have little scientific foundation.
Why Scott Adams thinks we have a moral obligation to praise others.
The Dilbert cartoonist remembers what it was like to be a young person from a small town, with few role models and fewer connections.
Peer-reviewed studies, published six months apart, produce wildly different estimates.
We regularly urge young people to think outside the box. Hughes is doing just that.
'Healthy' is now being defined in radically different ways, by different interest groups.
In the low-carb universe, vegetables are served with lots of butter, mayonnaise, and hollandaise.
In person, David Suzuki is reportedly foul-mouthed and rude.
On June 7th, the University of Alberta will lionize someone who rejects freedom of thought.
For the past 30 years, carbon-footprint-warrior David Suzuki has considered Australia his second home.
He decries over-population, but fathers 5 kids. He's against economic growth, but his once-tiny foundation now has offices in 3 cities.
Emotionally attached to ideas, some of us have little interest in how they perform in the real world.
Naive compassion for some people endangers the safety of others.
Full-fledged racism is being practiced by the very institutions that claim to abhor it.
Scientific debate can't accomplish its purpose if we pretend there is no debate.
The celebrated ability of science to self-correct is accompanied by some major caveats.
There are structural reasons for the low quality of much scientific research.
We need to lose our naivete. Many scientific findings are neither crisp nor clear.
A gang of 14 scientists attack a lone scientist in an academic journal. Erica Goode justifies & amplifies the assault in the Times.
When you give money to the Sierra Club, you're doing three bad things.
The Sierra Club is a lawsuit factory. Responding to its legal assaults wastes mountains of public money.
The Sierra Club is swimming in money from affluent individuals, wealthy foundations, and blue chip companies. This is not a grassroots organization.
For well-funded green groups (and a growing list of governments), lawyers are weapons and courtrooms are a political battleground.
Fruit may be natural, but its sugar content has increased due to selective breeding.
Since relaunching this blog on January first, I've published 38 new posts - including one in Swedish. Please help me continue.
If fat were the villain we've been told it is, I should have gained 40 pounds.
Some discoveries are easy to measure and easy to verify. But much of science is about groping in the dark.
People who exercise regularly still gain weight.
Greenpeace tells a court that everyone knows its campaigns are based on opinions & interpretations rather than hard facts.
Greenpeace thinks people who spread 'misinformation' have no right to be heard. Yet, suddenly, it's waving the free speech flag.
Green groups are perpetual outrage machines.
No thinking person should hold strong climate opinions unless they've carefully considered a range of viewpoints.
Changing definitions of 'normal' blood pressure means larger numbers of people are coping with drug side effects.
Doctors and nurses rarely follow the rules when collecting important info about our health.
Standard medical practice is often pointless, risky - and a waste of money.
I Sverige dog pressfrihet för 25 år sedan.
[Swedish translation of previous post]
Freedom of the press died in Sweden 25 years ago.
Journalists think their job is to shame ordinary people into silence lest they say something politically incorrect about the scale and pace of European immigration.
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