Posted on Jan 26, 2022 | Comments Off on The Irony Of Neil Young Protesting Disinformation: He Is One Of Pop Culture’s Biggest Science Deniers
Prior to 2021, the demographic that overwhelmingly included vaccine deniers was Neil Young's political tribe. Find a Whole Foods, and you found deniers of vaccines and medicine and nuclear power. They were all corporate conspiracies.So there is a certain irony that Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify because they didn't get rid of contrarian pundit Joe Rogan when critics of COVID-19 vaccines...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Politicization of Science: Germany Scuttled Nuclear And Bet On Solar, Which Made Them Reliant On Russia
When Germany abandoned nuclear energy and declared they were going "green", the sensible world knew what it meant. They were going to be buying a lot more gas from Russia. And Russia was going to sell it to them because they know when people in another country are reliant on you to keep their kids from freezing, their politicians will turn a blind eye to anything you do.read...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Politicization of Science: Germany Scuttled Nuclear And Bet On Solar, Which Made Them Reliant On Russia
When Germany abandoned nuclear energy and declared they were going "green", the sensible world knew what it meant. They were going to be buying a lot more gas from Russia. And Russia was going to sell it to them because they know when people in another country are reliant on you to keep their kids from freezing, their politicians will turn a blind eye to anything you do.read...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2022 | Comments Off on L2: James Webb Telescope Reached Its Final Orbit Around The Second Sun-Earth Lagrange Point
The moon is over 238,000 miles from earth and we haven't been back there in nearly 40 years. The James Webb Space Telescope, long-delayed successor to Hubble, is nearly 4X as far away, so if anything goes wrong it can't be fixed. Everything must go right. And so far, it has. After a mid-course correction that lasted about 5 minutes, Webb is at its final orbit around L2, the second Sun-Earth...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2022 | Comments Off on The Dumbest Epidemiology Paper You’ll Read This Week
Epidemiology pushes out a lot of dumb papers. Not as many as social psychology per capita but in volume a whole lot more. It's easy to see why the public believes horse de-wormer cures COVID-19, it was in an epidemiology paper, and that methodology was just as valid as a paper this week 'linking' olive oil to longer life. read...
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