A few weeks after Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis thumbed his nose at the scientific community by reopening his state’s beaches and nonessential businesses, and there had been no noticeable uptick in COVID-19 cases, the conservative press began its celebratory …
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Until the coronavirus, few Americans thought too much about pandemic management. In the last few months, however, we’ve come to understand at least a few basic concepts, perhaps the most central of which is this: You will never know if …
Today’s Americans find themselves in a strange moral position. Obviously, it’s not right to hope that 50,000 Trump supporters in Oklahoma who don’t believe in epidemiology will infect each other and wind up thinning the herd considerably. Having said that, it …
We’ve often discussed Americans’ peculiar rejection of science, whether it takes the form of climate change denial, fear of vaccinations and GMOs, dismissal of the COVID-19 response, or the welcoming of environmental deregulation. In many cases, this is the result …
It’s hard to listen to scientifically illiterate people claim that GMOs are harmful to human health. As suggested here, human beings have been “genetically modifying” our food sources for quite a while. The plant at the right was what Central …
This guy is offering for sale: All in one solution, solar freezer, solar tv, solar cooker and solar fan. Is he saying that he can power appliances with solar energy? Didn’t we already know that? I did a live television …
I think these guys on this “renewable energy” group on Facebook like to screw with readers, getting them to buy into the most ludicrous concepts imaginable. Maybe they have an internal contest going, to see who can get the most …
Apparently, some of my readers have bought into the “Plandemic” conspiracy theory that posits that COVID-19 is the result of the doctors and experts having silenced dissenting voices and misled the public for sinister reasons. For anyone who might be …
This would be funnier if it weren’t so tragic.
Here’s a short video that explains the pace at which we need to move in terms of clean energy growth to avert climate catastrophe. The United States is not at all homogeneous in terms of the adoption of renewables and …
