Some people believe the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a small, unified body composed of the best scientists who make proclamations on lots of things.That isn't really true. The actual IPCC is a tiny UN group, around a dozen people, but the bulk of the data is compiled by unpaid (well, unpaid by the UN) scientists who participate in working groups that argue over the science...
read moreThe Obama administration is currently embroiled in three big scandals that have nothing to do with science – the vast, right wing conspiracy that said they edited out references to terrorism in the Benghazi murders by Muslim extremists turned out to be true, they had the IRS targeting conservative groups for special attention and they have been tapping the phones of Associated Press...
read moreThe people who brought a certain cultural demographic (*cough*) sand-free peanut butter have now come out with a new product that is going to appeal to the anti-science crackpots that shop in places like Whole Foods and/or have a giant majority in California - non-GMO rock salt.
read moreNo one wants to send a poor country gravel but look for appropriate rich country outrage now that a road crew has bulldozed a Mayan pyramid to make some.Belizean police say they are investigating the construction company that has destroyed most of one of the largest Mayan pyramids in that country - to make gravel to dump on village roads. They are only investigating now? It seems odd that...
read moreThere are some places where food is easy to grow and some where it is not. Nature is not fair.Expecting companies in countries with food to ship it everywhere for free is not practical and the poorest people don't have the money to import food, so they are stuck in a hunger Catch-22. There are differing schools of thought on how to solve the problem.The positive approach - science - is to make it...
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