Newsflash: Those who believe they have destroyed entire foundations of science that have been put into place over the millennia by doing “their own research online” are a million miles away from admitting any possibility that they could be wrong.
Category: Renewables – Science
Quaker Values Still Reign Supreme at Penn Charter
Upon my return from the 50th reunion of the William Penn Charter School class of 1973, my mother asked me if the institution’s Quaker tradition had changed over the years since I graduated. “I don’t believe so,” I began. “There …
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Why Tucker Carlson and Fox News Parted Ways: Another Failed Attempt at an Explanation
We’re all looking for reasons why Tucker Carlson got whacked from Fox News. Here’s yet another theory that doesn’t ring true. Reader Dolly Lindley notes about the video below: It occurred to me almost immediately when I heard about Tucker, …
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Tagged with: world health system
More on America’s Three Political Parties
In a recent post I presented the concept that there are, for all practical purposes, three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now: progressives, traditional Republicans, and Trumpists. This is why the GOP is facing an uphill battle …
“I Did My Own Research”
The meme here is a good representation of how stupid people sound when the “research” they have supposedly conducted runs counter to the findings of science. It’s also a reminder that we live among people who honestly believe that American …
America’s Three Political Parties, and Where They Stand on Environmental Stewardship
It seems that there are three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now: Progressives, who are calling for the decarbonization of our transportation and energy sectors, simply because this is what our scientists are begging us to do, …
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College Vs. Apprenticeships
There is nothing incorrect about the graphic here, and there is no doubt that, for young people who may not be academically inclined, the career path on the right makes sense. Having said that, the most obvious rebuttal here is …
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Why No Aliens?
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of theories that seek to explain why there have been no verified stories of contact with extraterrestrials. One is that they know exactly who we are, and have concluded that we offer them no value. …
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How American Doctors Must Treat Disease
The point of the “survey” here, of course, is to goad ignorant people into claiming that doctors can say and do anything they like, by way of treating disease, because their free speech is protected under the First Amendment to …
Tagged with: American Medical Association, free speech protected under the First Amendment, QAnon and dozens of other anti-science groups, rapid progress the scientific community is making vis-à-vis vaccination protocols and other safety measures, the lethality of the early variants of COVID-19, threat COVID-19 poses to our entire civilization
What We Can Learn in the Great Outdoors
When my son was perhaps 11, I took him camping for a few days in the High Sierras with some friends. We needed to buy permits at the regional ranger station, and I noticed that it was replete with cross-sections …
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