The BFD Video: Shooting a Nerf Gun Backwards While Driving At The Bullet’s Speed Forwards
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Oh, Noes! The Climate Models May Have an Error
Let’s suppose that CO2 actually does control the average global temperature. It would thus be critical that the whole carbon cycle was extremely well understood in order for climate models to be accurate in their prediction of how mankind’s puny CO2 outputs are going to affect the future
It Started with Bat Soup and Might Now Be Ended by BAT
In a delicious irony that may challenge the belief systems of those opposed to genetic engineering and also tobacco sponsorship, it looks like BAT (British American Tobacco) may have won the race to provide the first vaccine for COVID-19: The world’s second-biggest cigarette maker claims to have
Coronavirus Weekly: Expert Analysis from the Conversation Global Network
Ina Skosana The Conversation The global crisis triggered by the spread of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, continues to take fresh and dramatic turns, causing havoc in dozens of countries around the world. Stock markets remain volatile, having recording historic collapses in share prices. As the disease continued to
Covid-19 From Its First Appearance in 2012 with a 50%+ Fatality Rate
Covid-19 is wreaking fear and havoc around the globe but very little is said about its colourful history, which includes the suspected murder of a Canadian scientist and its alleged theft in Canada by Chinese scientists. The new Coronavirus first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia when an unknown
Best Intentions Cannot Control Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction
Operation Paperclip was the American mission to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of Europe after WWII and take 88 brilliant Third Reich scientific minds to America to drive technological advancement in rocketry, space search and biological weaponry. Writer Annie Jacobsen wrote about that mission, and a dozen or so of
BFD Weekender: Fight Climate Extremists before they Upend Society
Ross Mckitrick wattsupwiththat.com Start learning the deep details of the science and economics instead of letting extremists dictate what you’re allowed to think or say Last year was the year the climate issue took a sharp turn towards extremism. Let’s hope 2020 is the year sanity makes
The BFD Nightcap: United Nations Reports FAIL Science Test
Cormann admits to relying on discredited reports Senator Malcolm Roberts received confirmation today that the Government relies on discredited reports from the United Nations as a basis for its climate policies. Independent scientists and its own authors have condemned this UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Senator Roberts
A Biologist Demolishes Unscientific Transgender Nonsense
I don’t have much time for Jerry Coyne as a “philosopher”, in which role he rarely rises above a Dawkins-esque smugness. But, credit where it’s due: also like Dawkins, as a biologist he knows his stuff and refuses to parrot politically-correct nostrums if they are obvious
New Fusion Hope, but Don’t Hold Your Breath
For as long as I can remember, fusion power has been “tantalisingly close”, with the “breakthrough” due at any moment and practically limitless, clean power “just around the corner”. I’m not admitting how many spins I’ve notched up around the Sun, but let me just say that I
BFD Weekender: Why Journalists Are Wrong to Say Trump Is at War With Science
Gabriel Popkin undark.org By endorsing the overblown rhetoric that science is under siege, we play into the narrative that the media is just another partisan actor. It may surprise you to learn that the Trump administration has, on quite a number of occasions, championed or advanced science. It has
The BFD Video: Global Warming is The Greatest Deception in History
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Planned Parenthood Consultant Admits Babies May Feel PAIN While Being Aborted
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com The Journal of Medical Ethics has published a paper calling for fetal pain to “be considered as part of a humane approach to abortion”. Whenever a paper or professional reaches a conclusion which is inconvenient to the profitable abortion industry or contradicts pro-abortion-choice propaganda,
The BFD Video: Good News for Greta!
CLINTEL – the Climate Intelligence group of more than 800 international scientists and professionals – have sent a letter to the World Economic Forum to inform them that there is NO Climate Emergency, and that’s good news for Greta Thunberg and her followers, many of whom are scared about climate change.
CLINTEL Manifesto Blasts Climate Scaremongering
David Wojick, Ph.D. PA Pundits – International There is NO climate emergency. Preaching doom and gloom is a crime against the young generation. These are the key points of a new manifesto from the Climate Intelligence Group or CLINTEL. CLINTEL is a rapidly growing international group, led by prominent scientists,
So, You Think a Vegan Diet Will Save the Planet? Think AGAIN
We are seeing a great deal of debate at the moment over teaching brain-washing of students with a climate alarmism curriculum. Chief among the proposals is to have students adopt a vegan diet, all to save the planet. Meat-eating is said to contribute a horrendous negative amount to