The Climate Wars are Damaging Science
Matt Ridley has produced the shortest whole, killer summary of the sordid state of climate science, science journalism, and science associations for Quadrant magazine. This is the ideal...
View ArticleSelling the dead-dog brand of “climate change”— it’s so ugly, they need...
Oh the woe! It’s another pointless round of climate-communication-angst. The Conversation: Elizabeth Boulton It’s time for a new age of Enlightenment: why climate change needs 60,000 artists to tell...
View ArticleAward winning Peter Boyer attacks Myron Ebell — but who has an open mind, and...
Peter Boyer seems to think Myron Ebell owes him an apology, but it’s the other way around. And Boyer ought say sorry to his readers. “Science Communication” is a pretty dismal, immature profession....
View ArticleClimate Propaganda burns out: neither hope nor doom works on audiences anymore
Hard to find some good news out there today. But here’s a bit: People are immune to climate hopey gloom Researchers tried to figure out whether to make their climate propaganda more scary or more...
View ArticleUK Science Museum hit by skeptical ICBM, makes small concession
The London Science Museum has abandoned it’s fort like barricade–the “NoDebateCorral” and many skeptics are rejoicing that the formerly Gung Ho institute seems to have done a major about-face. I remain...
View ArticleNew Scientist: The Age of Name-Calling
New Scientist plumbs new lows. The magazine has become its own self-parody. Do they see the irony of inviting a PR expert to accuse groups of committing the crime of, wait for it, … using a PR expert?...
View ArticleRobyn Williams shreds the tenets of science
Robyn Williams presenting at the Prime Ministers Awards 2006 As I keep repeating, there’s only ONE thing that makes science different to religion, and that’s evidence. Robyn Williams is the most lauded...
View ArticleWhat the heck are science journalists for?
From The Skeptics Handbook II Last week a science journalist at The Guardian wrote the best summary I have ever seen of the state of the profession known as “science communication”. Only, he thought it...
View ArticleSoul searching enviro-journalists admit they look duped and should have...
There is much introspection going on among environmental journalists. Last week, in a remarkably candid piece, Margot O’Neill of the ABC revealed for the first time what the flummoxed and frustrated...
View ArticleGovernment funds anti-science name-calling crowd: “deniers”, skeptics are old...
There’s a mindset, a world view here that’s profoundly unreal, anti-science, and of course, fully funded by the Taxpayer from start to end (how could it be any other way?). From the researcher who...
View ArticleThree times as many Australians think the ABC has a pro-Labor bias
The ABC will declare that “most Australians don’t think the ABC is biased” but while half the nation thinks it’s balanced, 30% don’t know, and of the 20% who are sure there is bias, there are three...
View ArticleWhat’s an alarmist to do? Extreme weather images lead to denial (like...
I sense much gnashing of teeth. There seems to be nothing a reasonable social-science communicator can do. If they write like conservative scientists, the public don’t worry enough, if they load on the...
View ArticleYale says “Global Warming” is a better misused-phrase for propaganda — dump...
What’s the point of language — especially in science? If you are naive, you might think it’s to communicate a fixed concept so everyone understands and can voice an opinion on the same thing. You would...
View ArticleLewandowsky peer reviewed study includes someone 32,757 years old
The worst paper ever published has competition. I was going to mock this, but it has all rather slipped beyond the Plains of Derision and sunk in a parallel universe. Researcher Jose Duarte is...
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