Science
The IPCC’s Deliberate CO2 Deception
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Many of my disagreements with the IPCC AR6 science Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) are just that, disagreements. I think their reasoning is faulty but at least I understand
Blast From the COVID Past Shows How Far We’ve Fallen
In his The Shape of Things to Come, H G Wells describes “the curious sense of unconsciousness” of the calamity that was about to unfold in the summer of 1914. “The weather that August was exceptionally fine”, and countless Europeans holidayed with no notion that within a scant few years
Science or Pseudo Science?
Christopher Ruthe I was convenor of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for 13 years, (20 of my decisions are in the NZ law reports). I also sat on the Weathertight Homes Tribunal. I am a polymath with a strong interest in the philosophical underpinnings of society – a bit of a
Auckland Lockdown Unlikely to End Next Week
A significant part of the world’s population today is living with high levels of fear. Fear of death by Covid-19. Confronted by stories of hundreds of new “cases”, deaths and horrifyingly mutated variants that will eventually sneak in and get them, average people are losing the will to live.
The UN IPCC Science Panel Opts for Extreme Nuttiness
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. It was not easy, but the new IPCC Summary for Policymakers manages to outdo itself in nuttiness. They have rebirthed some really bad old stuff and combined it with
Want Your Boss to Monitor You 24/7?
Proponents of forcible vaccination like to couch their authoritarianism in the language of public health and “the greater good”. But so did some of the world’s worst tyrannies. “Public health” has an indelibly bossy streak which must be continually brought to heel if people want to stay free. Of
A World of Precious Metals
As I reported in The BFD late last year, a planned robotic mission to the asteroid Psyche 16 is significant for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is believed that Psyche 16 is a fragment of a smashed proto-planet: a leftover from the early, violent days of the formation of
Maori Myth Is Not Science
Ross Meurant hobsonspledge.nz Ross Meurant, B.A M.P.P. resigned from the police at inspector rank in 1987 to enter Parliament as a National MP. Today he is Honorary Consul for Morocco and trustee and CEO of commercial assets owned by absentee Russian investors. As a former detective
Why Smart People Get Suckered by ‘Trust the Science’
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Has there ever been a time in history when the public has been asked to “trust the science” more? This week the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report which UN Secretary General António Guterres described as
Out with Weather Events, In with Settled Science
Having watched TV One News on Tuesday night I was confronted with the cataclysmic disclosure that it was no longer possible to plan a prolonged future due to the world exploding from uncontrollable combustion and then having all its hard work extinguished by substantive flooding! My first thought was “swings
If You Want to Jail Your Critics, You’re Not a Scientist
A famous quote attributed to Winston Churchill says that, “The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists”. Despite the almost certainty that Churchill never said it, it remains a useful quote. Too often, those decrying some evil are themselves equally guilty of it. As Churchill did say, “Nazism and
Jordan Peterson Shows You a Video of DNA Fixing Itself
If mankind has the nouse to figure out and show this level of detail how DNA works, how is it possible that the world is run by imbeciles?