Back when I was doing my degree, I studied a subject called “Basic Scientific Practise”. It was, at the time, a one-of-its-kind subject although many other universities around the world were taking an interest in it. Why on earth would a university science course have to offer
Whenever the “IFL Science!” bros started beating their chests about the infallibility of The Science™, I like to gently suggest that these honking loons read Walter Gratzer’s The Undergrowth of Science. This invaluable little tome is an antidote to not only incipient Scientism but the uncritical worship of “experts”
If Netsafe are serious about tackling fake news and Covid misinformation, they should start with the New Zealand government, the mainstream media, and the Jacinda Arderns, Siouxsie Wiles’ and Shaun Hendy’s. After all, it was Jacinda Ardern who claimed to be “your sole source of truth”. Except that almost
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com They are wheeling out the old guns to advertise the new bivalent booster against Omicron. Dr Petousis-Harris told everyone late last year that the data did not support it, and she wouldn’t be rushing out to get it. Perhaps
Remember Lushy’s Second Law of the Media? When an article claims, ‘science says…’ or ‘new study shows…’, assume that it doesn’t until proven otherwise. A recent spate of lurid media headlines provide yet another case study in why you shouldn’t take the legacy media at their word.
Owen Cumming particle.scitech.org.au Carbon dating is how we determine the age of fossils and relics from our past. But how does it actually work? WA is home to the earliest fossil evidence of life and human culture on Earth. But when an archaeologist reveals a relic or
Watching old sitcoms can be an instructive exercise: mostly in the continuing delusions of the leftists who’ve dominated television since the middle 60s. For instance, who can watch old episodes of All in the Family and not feel a nagging twinge that, on at least some essentials, “bigoted” Archie
Oh, boy: right again. Way back in May, 2020, I wrote that Wearing a Mask Is Useless Showing Off. For all the screeching from Pulpits of Truth about “harmful disinformation”, I was right. Especially about the “useless” bit. It’s not that I’m any great sage, or “expert”, either.
Frank Lasee cfact.org CFACT policy advisor Frank Lasee is an expert on energy and environmental issues. His articles have appeared in the Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Real Clear Energy, Town Hall. He has been a guest on TV and radio news. He is the president of Truth in Energy
Despite the incessant shrieking of the usual suspects, there’s little evidence that the Earth is in the grip of a “Sixth Mass Extinction”. There is, after all, no surer sign that an idea is completely and utterly discredited than Paul Ehrlich promoting it. But there may well be a
You logically shouldn’t judge an argument by who made it… but there are some people who are so consistently wrong that, whatever they say, the opposite is almost certain to be true. So there’s no surer proof that hysteria over the so-called “Sixth Mass Extinction” is as
J M White It all began with organ donations. We were told our gift of our organs could save lives and they do. Surrogacy has been perfected. This is a type of temporary organ donation. Initially, women agreed to rent-a-womb under the misapprehension that they were doing a
Anyone who thinks The Science™ of climate change is “settled” has not only never read the serious climate science literature, they’ve almost certainly never talked to a great many climate scientists. What the legacy media and politicians serve up to you as “climate science” is, in fact, cherry-picked
Dave Patterson While the Department of Defence is spending billions to counteract climate change, no one is talking about a real geologic phenomenon. Scientists have revealed the Earth’s magnetic poles are moving. That sounds significant, yet very little is being said in national security circles about what the magnetic
It looks like the world is starting to finally wake up to the dangers of puberty blockers. The Italian Psychoanalytic Society has written to the country’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressing “great concern” about the use of puberty blockers with children and calling for “rigorous scientific discussion” of youth
It’s something we all learn in high school biology: plants “breathe in” carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Animals breathe in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. The only problem is that that isn’t the whole story. Nothing in nature is 100% clear-cut or efficient. Humans (and other animals)
