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Great Barrington Declaration Scientists with Gov. Desantis in Florida

Great Barrington Declaration Scientists with Gov. Desantis in Florida

AIER Staff aier.org Founded in 1933, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the oldest and most respected nonpartisan economic research and advocacy organizations in the country. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on the one-year anniversary of the lockdowns, invited back the scientists behind the Great Barrington

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Nuclear Reactor Explosions and Excursions

Nuclear Reactor Explosions and Excursions

Marc Grey Despite being one of the safest types of energy generation, there is a common perception that nuclear power is dangerous. Probably the most common view about nuclear power danger is that a reactor may explode. In this article, we explore what type of explosions can occur and along

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Kiwis Are Standing on the Peaks of Zealandia

Kiwis Are Standing on the Peaks of Zealandia

The notion of the “lost continent” of Lemuria was first put forward in the mid-19th century, attempting to explain the presence of lemur fossils in both Madagascar and India and nowhere in between. Zoologist Philip Sclater proposed that, like Atlantis, Lemuria had “sunk beneath the waves”, in what is now

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Science Moves Another Step Closer to Human ‘Hatcheries’

Science Moves Another Step Closer to Human ‘Hatcheries’

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Another step in “an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development” of human embryos came last week from Israel. Researchers there have successfully grown mouse embryos for 12 days, which is about half the animal’s natural gestation period. The rough equivalent for

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What the Climate Commission Draft Report Got Wrong

What the Climate Commission Draft Report Got Wrong

Points to Note in Regard to Agricultural Livestock Emissions Ruminant Methane and Nitrous Oxide. The Climate Commission draft report is a missed opportunity to properly redress the numerous and significant mistakes that governments over many years have made about the impact of ruminant methane emissions. FARM recommends the Commission rewrites

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Correcting the Record on Climate

Correcting the Record on Climate

Craig Rucker cfact.org Nary a day goes by without an outrageous claim about climate in the media. These over-the-top, outrageous assertions are not science.  They are talking points spoon-fed by radical pressure groups to an all-too-compliant media.  They are often made up on the spot. Just this week Marc

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Researchers Have Grown ‘Human Embryos’ from Skin Cells

Researchers Have Grown ‘Human Embryos’ from Skin Cells

Megan Munsie The University of Melbourne Helen Abud Monash University Dr Megan Munsie is a scientist who has combined her extensive technical expertise in stem cell science with an interest and understanding of the complex ethical, social and regulatory issues associated with stem cells in research and in the clinic.

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Cheating in Science Is Nothing New

Cheating in Science Is Nothing New

Dr. John Happs PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com “Men only care for science so far as they get a living by it and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (1749-1832) Religious fanatics have often predicted an apocalypse from a displeased

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What Colour Were the Ancient Egyptians, Really?

What Colour Were the Ancient Egyptians, Really?

The vicious ignorance of the identity politics-obsessed left was rarely better displayed than when it was announced that Israeli actor Gal Gadot had been picked to play Cleopatra in a new film. The tiny, cerebrally-challenged leftist puddle that is Twitter immediately erupted with its trademark brainless yapping. “Whitewashing!” they shrieked.

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Tauranga February Rainfalls 1898-2021

John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Rainfalls for the month of February have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 (except for 1904, 1908, and 1909). The graph of February rainfalls in Tauranga shows the range of rainfalls from a high of 343 mm in 1936 to a low of only 7

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Meteorology & the America’s Cup
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Meteorology & the America’s Cup

John Maunder The role of weather and weather and weather forecasting in yachting has for many years been an integral part of many National Meteorological Services as well as commercial weather services. In New Zealand, the Meteorological Service has seconded one of the service’s weather forecasters for many international

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Coronavirus: Will Immunity Rapidly Fade or Last a Lifetime?

Coronavirus: Will Immunity Rapidly Fade or Last a Lifetime?

Luke O’Neill Trinity College Dublin Luke O’Neill is an immunologist in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin. His research area is the molecular basis of inflammatory diseases. He has written several popular science books including his most recent ‘Never Mind the B*ll*cks, Here’

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How Media Distorts Science: COVID on Surfaces

How Media Distorts Science: COVID on Surfaces

Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Covid hysteria has highlighted the strange human tendency to want to believe the worst. No matter how bad something is, we are fascinated by the possibility it could be even worse. Journalists are subject to the same psychological trait, but are also driven by

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The Great Suffocation Is (Almost) Upon Us!

The Great Suffocation Is (Almost) Upon Us!

You can forget climate change or global pandemics. Scientists have unveiled an even more devastating doomsday scenario: We’re all going to suffocate. Nearly everything on Earth. Eventually… like, a billion years eventually. All complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete

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