Too many of us are too obviously too desperate to just believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life, no matter how slender (indeed, non-existent) the evidence. Thus we get arrant nonsense like the “Drake Equation” being passed off as hard science — and a persistent determination to clutch at the
Jeffrey Mo University of Toronto Jeffrey Mo is a Global Journalism Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Prior to this, he worked as an economist and policy analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on topics ranging from
There’s a favourite cartoon for the climate cultists, which they apparently think is a knock-down argument against anyone who questions their holy “science”. “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?” Which illustrates exactly the problem with the climate cult: not
Anyone who is even remotely versed with an honest appraisal of the history of science knows that scientists make mistakes. Lots of them. Sometimes through ignorance, sometimes through normal human arrogance and stupidity, sometimes even on purpose due to greed or malevolence. That doesn’t mean all or even most
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Graham Adams There is a lot of funding and influence riding on successfully casting indigenous knowledge as equal to science. Graham Adams says the debate over the NCEA science syllabus is only the tip of an iceberg. Anyone trying to get a grip on the matauranga Maori debate over the
Michelle Wheeler particle.scitech.org.au Michelle is a former science and environment reporter for The West Australian. Her work has seen her visit a snake-infested island dubbed the most dangerous in the world, test great white shark detectors in a tinny and meet isolated tribes in the Malaysian
Tim Ordei Information Opinion Everything in this series of articles is my own opinion. My decisions are my own and not recommendations to anyone else. While at this stage I have chosen not to vaccinate against covid, I have taken a considerable amount of time and effort to help improve
Craig Rucker cfact.org Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Dr. Roy Spencer is a scientist, known as much for his unshakeable integrity, as for his brilliant work in climate science. He is also a good friend of CFACT. He works with
Tasmanian devils have gotten a pretty bad rap over the years. Their very name derives from their, uh, distinctive vocalisations. The cacophony of blood-curdling screams and growls echoing from the bush at night frightened some early settlers into believing they were hearing the devil himself. Later, in the mid-
Guy Hatchard Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food testing and certification company. He is an advocate of natural preventive approaches to health. Stuck in a parallel universe:—at our local school a doctor arrived to address the student body and the staff
It’s a curious thing: the people most obsessed with climate change seem to have the most trouble grasping the concept of “change”. They seem to live with a peculiar delusion that the climate of the middle 1960s — just coincidentally, the heyday of the Boomer Establishment’s youth — is somehow
Mike Roberts fee.org Mike Roberts is a process engineer at Intel with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a life-long advocate of free markets and free ideas. Over the past half decade, there has been a growing trend
“Academic freedom” is a funny old thing. Like Churchill’s characterisation of free speech, “Some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage”. Case in point: Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy. These
Dr Geoff Duffy Retired Professor of Chemical Engineering DEng, PhD, BSc, ASTC Dip, FRSNZ, FIChemE Terry Dunleavy writes: In the 22 years since I co-founded the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition to counter the false propaganda about what was then called “dangerous anthropogenic global warning” (DAGW) now called simply
In his books Silent Invasion: China’s influence in Australia and Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World (co-written with Mareike Ohlberg, Australian academic Clive Hamilton exposes, “the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to
