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The Second Sight: A Plimer footnote
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Monday, January 10, 2011. Professor Ian Plimer has not been averse in the past to pontificating on areas in which he is not qualified, such as economics. Some projections suggest by the period 1995 to 2000, the USSR will produce more gold than South Africa South Africa is the biggest world producer of gold, chromium, vanadium, diamonds and platinoids, with the USSR being the seconde biggest producer for each of these essential commodities. How wrong can you be? But he was right a...
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The Second Sight: Something to chew on
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Wednesday, January 05, 2011. Something to chew on. Well, there's been a little bit of to-and-fro lately about some ancient teeth found in Israel. What species of homo. Do they completely rewrite the narrative of human expansion? The media, as always, are prepared to leap to conclusions before all the evidence is in. Of much more pressing concern to EoR, however, is the fact that an archaeologist behind this paper is nominatively deterministically called Avi Gopher.
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The Second Sight: Back to the future
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Tuesday, January 04, 2011. Back to the future. I am Governor Jerry Brown. Soon I will be president. Carter Power will soon go away. I will be Fuhrer one day. I will command all of you. Your kids will meditate in school. Your kids will meditate in school! Zen fascists will control you. You will jog for the master race. And always wear the happy face. Close your eyes, can't happen here. Big Bro' on white horse is near. The hippies won't come back you say. Mellow out or you will pay.
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The Second Sight: Journalistic balance: a case study
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Saturday, January 15, 2011. Journalistic balance: a case study. The West Australian, Saturday 15th January 2011. Number of pages devoted to Queensland. Floods (current death toll 16): 10.5. Number of pages devoted to Brazil. Floods (current death toll 540): 0.5. Number of pages devoted to Phillipines. Floods (current death toll 40): 0. Number of pages devoted to Sri Lanka. Floods (current death toll 27): 0. Saturday, January 15, 2011. Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:48:00 am. And s...
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The Second Sight: Meryl Dorey pwned
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Saturday, January 08, 2011. Since August 2009 there has been a large outbreak of measles in Ireland, with 320 cases of whom 206 were unvaccinated, 36% of the cases were hospitalised, but no deaths were reported up to February 2010. Fifty-six cases were aged under 1 year and so not eligible for vaccination, showing that in communities were vaccination uptake is low, younger children are vulnerable to infection. So how many children died because of one man's fraudulent science.
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The Second Sight: Thistle thoughts
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Friday, January 14, 2011. EoR, having accidentally sat on some thistles, ponders the State of Things. Why do alties spend all their time getting colonic irrigation to remove the nasty stuff from their gut, when real doctors spend time putting them back. Friday, January 14, 2011. Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). And sometimes he thought, "Wherefore? And sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which? A View from the West.
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The Second Sight: WA Creationists Skeptics
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Friday, January 07, 2011. C J O'Brien has an excellent post at Northstate Science discussing the pelvis of Lucy. And how creationists attempt to use this to disprove paleontological arguments about it. The introductory discussion, however, could be applied verbatim to the WA Skeptics. Simply replace 'creationists' with 'climate deniers'. Did the author really mean that? What evidence is not being presented? I see no evidence that creationists actually make an honest effort to loo...
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The Second Sight: Only 0.73% of climate scientists think that humans are affecting the climate!!1!
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Saturday, January 01, 2011. Only 0.73% of climate scientists think that humans are affecting the climate! Polymath Andrew Bolt helpfully points to an article by Dennis Ambler. Demolishing the belief that there's any consensus (how the deniers detest that word, even as they promote petitions to prove an anti-consensus) that the world is warming. In fact, only " 0.73% of climate scientists. Think that humans are affecting the climate". The article, published by the right wing SPPI.
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The Second Sight: Q: How many denialists does it take to change a light bulb?
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Saturday, January 15, 2011. Q: How many denialists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Light comes from the Sun. Duh. A: We should wait until it gets dark to see whether the bulb is really broken. A: The Great Light Bulb Swindle is a scam by Big Light Bulb to sell more light bulbs. A: The Darkenists don’t even understand basic science. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, therefore darkness is impossible. Saturday, January 15, 2011. Labels: Climate change denial.
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The Second Sight: WA Skeptics Deniers (2)
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Science. Sense. Sarcasm. Thursday, January 06, 2011. Just a little more about the anti-skeptical WA Skeptics and their recent anti-science conversion. On their edited conspiracy diatribe. Editted in the sense that when an error is pointed out the error is not corrected, but further errors are piled on top to confuse and obscure) the following claim is made:. Out of context quotes snipped by EoR]. So, not only does it not criticise the IPCC (it doesn't even mention it), but it doesn't even explicitly deny...
