“EARTH’S CLIMATE IS CHAOTIC, NOT STATIC” August 13, 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues: For those ready to roll their eyes with “…There he goes again…” please bear with me. The “plans” of the presumptive Democrat nominee for president, if he were to stumble into that esteemed office come November (heaven forbid – please) are out […]
“A HUGE LOSS” TO “PROGRESS” by David Wojick, ©2020, CFACT (Jul. 20, 2020) — After studying the popular practice of peer review of scientific journal articles for several years, I have reluctantly concluded that peer review is bad for science. While the practice has its good side, there are several ways that it greatly impedes […]
“POLITICAL MEDICINE DISGUISED AS MEDICAL SCIENCE” by Linda Goudsmit, ©2020, blogging at Pundicity (Jun. 26, 2020) — Masks have been a part of societies for 9,000 years. The earliest masks were used for rituals and ceremonies. Later, they were used in hunting, feasts, wars, performances, theaters, fashion, sports, movies, and then as protection against medical […]
“IT’S A KEEPER” May 25, 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Every once in a while one finds an article that opens our eyes, or maybe helps us see clearly what was already in front of us but had missed. May I commend to you such an article written by Daniel Greenfield and titled “Stop Believing […]
“POLITICAL” SCIENCE OR “SOUND” SCIENCE? by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2019 (Sep. 13, 2019) — Sonny Perdue was well chosen by President Donald Trump to be Agriculture Secretary. As part of Perdue’s efforts to put our agricultural house in order, he has succeeded in filling the upper echelon of the agency with straight […]
“CERTAINLY NOT REAL SCIENCE” August 3, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: They’re at it again, frightening small children and kittens, too (and, unfortunately, some adult voters as well). We have only 12 years – or it’s curtains for our planet! You want proof? Look at this summer’s 100-degree-plus temperatures in Northern Europe’s big cities…. Well […]
“THE CLIMATE CIRCUS” by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2019, CFACT (Jun. 21, 2019) — Having hitched their wagon to the unicorn of climate catastrophe, the Democrat candidates for president are caught between a rock and a very hard place. Each of these twenty contenders has to try to stand out from the crowd and they will […]
“IDEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2019 (Jun. 20, 2019) — Many people think that science is somehow immune to frauds and misrepresentations. Application of the “scientific method” supposedly weeds out the bad apples. Yet, just as in every other human endeavor, there are always scientists who will lie, cheat, and steal […]
“COLLECTIVE NUTTINESS” by David Wojick, ©2019, CFACT (May 14, 2019) — Rising star presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has put out his own version of the Green New Deal. It is milder than AOC’s monstrosity but it is still a multi-trillion dollar monstrosity. Unlike the GND, and perhaps wisely, Beto’s fantastical blueprint has no name. In […]
ALARMISTS GAME THE SYSTEM TO ENRICH AND EMPOWER THEMSELVES, AND HURT EVERYONE ELSE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Apr. 29, 2019) — The multi-colored placard in front of a $2-million home in North Center Chicago proudly proclaimed, “In this house we believe: No human is illegal” – and “Science is real” (plus a few other liberal […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2019 (Feb. 10, 2019) — “Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena, or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.” — Stephen Hawking NOTE: This article is about the hijacking of science […]
NO MATTER WHAT THE FORMER VP SAYS, TRUTH DOES NOT APPLY TO SCIENCE by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2017 (Aug. 9, 2017) — Overlooked in the controversies about former Vice-President Al Gore’s global warming films, An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017), is that truth is not possible in […]
CREATING BALANCE AND STABILITY IN A CHAOTIC POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT by James E. Smith and Alex Hatch, ©2017 (Jun. 7, 2017) — Many successful domestic and global companies and enterprises were started and driven by the visionary, problem-solving and leadership capabilities of technically trained founders and/or principals. Historically, those skills and entrepreneurial instincts came from […]
THE PARIS TREATY IS NOW A TOOTHLESS TIGER by Viv Forbes, Secretary, The Clexit Coalition, ©2016 (Nov. 18, 2016) — The Clexit Coalition has pledged to assist any government or politician seeking to exit the Paris Agreement and to curb the wasteful and destructive UN/IPCC. The Secretary of Clexit (Climate Exit Coalition), Mr Viv Forbes […]
SCIENCE IS A PROCESS, NOT A DESTINATION, AND MUST NOT BE IMMUNE TO FALSIFICATION BY EXPERIMENT by Bill Frezza, ©2016 (Sep. 15, 2016) — “And yet, it moves.” Thus muttered Galileo Galilei under his breath, after being forced by the Inquisition to recant his claim that the Earth moved around the Sun, rather than the […]
NEW YORK TIMES IS LOOKING FOR A CLIMATE CHANGE EDITOR. THAT’S ME! by William M. Briggs, ©2016 (Sep. 13, 2016) — Dean Baquet and Sam Dolnick New York Times New York, NY Re: Climate Change Editor Dear Misters Baquet and Dolnick: Please accept my application for the position of Climate Change Editor, the details of which I […]
HOW CORRUPT AND FRAUDULENT IS THE GOVERNMENT “SCIENCE” THAT DENIES NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGE? by Paul Driessen and Ron Arnold, ©2016 (Apr. 16, 2016) — A self-appointed coalition of Democrat state attorneys general is pursuing civil or criminal racketeering actions against ExxonMobil, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other organizations. The AGs claim the groups are committing fraud, […]
THE VAUNTED “97% CONSENSUS” ON DANGEROUS MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING IS JUST MORE MALARKEY by David R. Legates, ©2016 (Apr. 10, 2016) — By now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree: Climate change is real, manmade and dangerous.” Even if you weren’t one of his 31 million followers who received this tweet from President […]
SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE WORK STOPPED CHOLERA – NOW IT NEEDS TO SEPARATE MYTHS, MITES AND NEONICS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Mar. 27, 2016) — If modern activist groups held sway in the mid-nineteenth century, countless multitudes would have died from typhoid fever and cholera. The “miasma” paradigm held that the diseases were caused by foul air arising […]
THE DIMENSION OF “ETERNITY” by RoseAnn Salanitri, ©2016, TPATH Contributor (Jan. 4, 2016) — As people of faith reflect on the miracle of the Christ child and His resurrection, churches can expect unusually high attendance on Christmas and Easter. However, there are an increasing number of those that believe science has disproved the existence of […]