As I wrote recently, Japan’s SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) probe somewhat embarrassingly landed upside-down. But, while it’s fun to have a bit of a giggle at a mishap in what is, after all, a very tricky business, we shouldn’t lose sight of what the
Matt Judd Normally when I attempt to write one of these essays, I try to remember what my English teacher taught me last century and have an introduction, a body and a conclusion. I also try to give articles some sort of legitimacy by attaching a link or two to
These are busy times for the Moon. Not since the Space Race has there been so much activity on and around Earth’s satellite. More interestingly, the new flurry of space activity is putting the Cold War paradigm of USA/Russia to bed: recent Moon probes have been sent by
Nancy S. Jecker Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington Andrew Ko Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Washington University of Washington Putting a computer inside someone’s brain used to feel like the edge of science fiction. Today, it’s a
Climate modeller Dr Nakamura Mototaka states that climate models are “useless junk” and “produce gravely misleading output”. One major reason for this is that they treat solar output as a constant – which we know perfectly well is simply absurd. The sun’s output is constantly fluctuating, often dramatically. Some scientists
Anyone who thinks science is pure and incorruptible has clearly never studied the history of science. From Phrenology to Lysenkoism, Glacial Cosmology to Cold Fusion, science is littered with frauds and vicious ideologues. Certainly, the self-correcting nature of science means that they get weeded out – eventually – but the fact
Sarah Parshall Perry Sarah Parshall Perry is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Susan Shaw, a women’s and gender studies professor at Oregon State, penned a
For all their blatherskite about “following the science!” the left are all-too-ready to throw science under the knee of Lysenko-like thugs, the instant scientific evidence points to a conclusion they don’t like. We saw this all too clearly during the pandemic. As scholar Wilfred Reilly elaborates
Would New Zealanders have been better off praying, rather than vaccinating, during Covid? Some recent studies might separately suggest so. Firstly, two Cambridge-led studies found that religious people coped with the pandemic — or, more correctly, with the draconian lockdown policies governments imposed in response better than secular people. Cambridge
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a health practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com In recent times, there has been a
Well, you’ve got to hand it to Japan’s space agency, they know how to put a positive spin on things. Japan joined the latter-day Moon race by landing its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), nearly a fortnight ago. As the Japan Times reported, the lander touched
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Look at the crest below for Baradene College of the Sacred Heart, a girl’s school in Auckland. Note the name, study the crest, and come back to it after the account that follows. Sometimes, it seems like New Zealanders are
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Once again, we have reasons to be concerned about the integrity of New Zealand research. The series of events around the New Zealand Covid vaccine adverse events study have once again highlighted the lengths to which those who wish to deceive
Leigh Riby Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience, Department of Psychology Northumbria University, Newcastle When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take
Christian B. Miller Wake Forest University Prominent cases of purported lying continue to dominate the news cycle. Hunter Biden was charged with lying on a government form while purchasing a handgun. Republican Representative George Santos allegedly lied in many ways, including to donors through a third party in order to
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