Science is in a largely unspoken crisis. From the all-but-broken peer-review system to “replication crisis” (many published studies are either never being repeated by other researchers, or, when they do, their results cannot be replicated), science is spiralling into a nadir that the “IFL Science” crowd will
John Snow was an English physician, born in 1813, who is considered the father of epidemiology. He traced a cholera outbreak in London in 1854 to a specific water source and convinced the local council to remove the water pump’s handle. The people who passed for scientists in John
John Rofe After 15 years of trying to figure out whether the “Warming Alarmists” or the “Climate Change Deniers” are right, I have concluded that the causes of climate change are almost totally natural…solar variability on the one hand (because the sun provides 99.9% of Earth’s energy)
Sebastian Rushworth M.D. Health and medical information grounded in science sebastianrushworth.com September 2020 was the least deadly month in Swedish history, in terms of the number of deaths per 100,000 population. Ever. And I don’t mean the least deadly September, I mean the least deadly month.
Last week, I looked at the history of the Ouija board and how what was for decades seen as a harmless parlour game became a pop culture icon as a gateway to demonic forces. But I left untouched the question: what do Ouija boards really do? Well, what they really
covidplanb.co.nz A rule of thumb in public health, forgotten in the panicked responded to COVID-19, was; If you don’t know the likely result of your intervention, don’t do it. We heavily regret the schism in science and society over COVID-19, but it was made
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David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Climate science is dominated by alarmists addicted to the idea that increasing carbon dioxide will cause dangerous global warming. How much warming is thus the central scientific question. This
In the classic Warner Bros cartoon Rocket-Bye Baby, a Martian baby is mistakenly delivered to a couple on Earth. Eventually, the preternaturally intelligent tyke builds his own, working, flying saucer. Cut to an auditorium where a sceptical professor-type is scoffing at the popular fad for “little green men
Despite their blatherskiting about “listening to the science”, the green-left are often more anti-science than a mediaeval Inquisitor seeing witches under every textbook. Despite its track record of safety, green activists are implacably opposed to nuclear energy. The usual gaggle of nosey-nannas, “doctors for the environment” and
More than a century after it went to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, the Titanic continues to fascinate. You might think that by now there was nothing left to mine in the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck. But research continues to uncover tantalising new details. Space
John Rofe Private Investigator The Holocene interglacial period began at the end of the most recent full ice age which ended about 11,700 years ago. It is generally accepted that the passage of Ice Ages and their interglacial intervals occurs every 100,000-120,000 years and they are
John Rofe Private Investigator New Zealand is a land bordered by sea, sand and surf so it is no wonder we have some of the best sailors and surfers to be found anywhere. Surfers know that as soon as the sun rises in the East, the wind gets up and
Chris Sellars Scientific Method – the system of advancing knowledge by formulating a question, collecting data about it through observation and experiment, and testing a hypothetical answer. Over a century ago there was rivalry between two French research scientists who apparently had too much time on their hands. The first was
Stacey Rudin aier.org Carl Sagan famously said, “the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.” This wisdom has been sadly forsaken during the COVID-19 pandemic, when one powerful narrative has taken not only the public but the scientific community, by storm.
