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Donna Laframboise
It's no longer accurate to talk about the developed vs the developing world.
Long the whipping boy of environmentalists, the Industrial Revolution lifted humanity out of misery and squalor.
Concern about global warming is dead last amongst 16 priorities.
Spending scarce resources on a separate collection system for material no one wants isn't sensible.
Attempting to understand why people vote the way they do is more useful than sneering at half a country’s population.
Scientists score lower than chimpanzees when quizzed about basic, state-of-the-world facts.
Scores of scientific minds. So much tomfoolery.
No matter how undemocratic, impoverished, sparsely-populated, or terrorism-promoting a nation might be, a sentence written by scientists will not survive if that nation objects.
On what planet is it OK for politically-determined definitions to supersede those written by actual scientists?
The IPCC publishes the citizenship and gender of its authors - but says nothing about their scientific expertise.
The latest IPCC report was a setup - a cynical ploy to produce alarmist media headlines that succeeded beautifully.
November 2000 and December 2009 were both supposed to be our last, best chance to save the planet from climate disaster. This week, the media is once again spreading this message.
If climate research is like other research, half of the IPCC's 6,000 academic citations are dubious.
Hundreds of women insist the current US Supreme Court nominee is tremendously supportive of female equality. Why doesn’t every news story offer us a chance to believe them?
Last week, in a sickening spectacle, grownups behaved as though a vague, wholly unproven story involving teenagers 30+ years ago is relevant to whether a candidate is fit to be a US Supreme Court judge.
The most smug, most self-indulgent, least curious journalists in history.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is essentially a law unto itself, an entrenched culture with no meaningful oversight mechanisms.
The BBC is a huge bureaucracy. The geniuses running it have declared another bureaucracy - the UN's IPCC - a font of scientific truth. How pathetic.
'Social justice' is an extremist, left wing political analysis many consider repellent and infantile. It’s as though academics have no idea the rest of us think they’ve gone insane.
Entities explicitly committed to social justice: Yale's School of Nursing, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Art, religious organizations.
Reading Heather Mac Donald's new book is like stepping into a bad dream.
The average number of school-related homicides per year appears to be 33. The US Dept. of Education's claim of 'over 100' in 2015-2016 should be treated with grave skepticism.
Bad data fuels ill-informed decisions, wastes money, and scares kids.
A US government report about school shootings is riddled with errors.
How should women dress in public given the religious views of some immigrants? Jimmie Åkesson says men 'who feel they can't control themselves' are welcome to wear blindfolds.
I'm taking a few days vacation. See you next Friday, September 7th.
As a historic number of people were applying for asylum last year, journalists insisted nothing unusual was going on.
The Swedish political party that has been shouting itself hoarse about anti-Semitism is the one journalists keep describing as neo-Nazi.
Every time the media mentions the Sweden Democrats, we're reminded of sins decades in the past. But there's no parallel, incessant reminder of the Green Party’s documented links to the Nazis.
Sweden's population: 10 million. France and UK total population: 133 million. Sweden has accepted more asylum seekers than France and UK combined.
Journalists can't seem to help themselves. Every blessed thing gets twisted.
If 3,260 vehicles had been torched in America, how safe would ordinary people be feeling?
There's a world of difference between denouncing media bias and sending in the military to close television stations.
When Donald Trump rails against fake news he speaks for millions of people who are tired of being silenced and smeared.
The people who removed InfoWars content from Facebook, YouTube, and iTunes this week need to re-read the fifth Harry Potter book.
Changing people's behaviour is profoundly difficult.
The covers of news magazines such as Time and The Economist used to tell the truth.
Iconic magazine admits it published fake news. Makes no promise not to do it again.
Online jokes about plastic straws provide welcome comic relief.
Why does the city of San Francisco need a full-blown Department of the Environment?
If we want to protect the ocean from plastic, we need to think strategically.
Green activists are in the business of taking away choices.
Peer-reviewed science can be found to support nearly every position.
Reporting on peer review, The Economist misses the elephant in the room - and advocates unjust hiring practices.
Unlike many dads cast by Hollywood, this one is competent, accomplished, and a pillar of the community.
A webpage vetted by Oxford is misleading the public about a fake geological era.
Only one person has been held accountable. To this day, Greenpeace refuses to identify the full list of culprits.
Humans make things safe, clean, and healthy.
The most reputable publishers imaginable are misinforming the public about basic geology.
Journalists declaring something to be the case before it has actually happened is outrageous and unethical.
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