Tag: scientists
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An Earned Reckoning: Fired Scientists Cannot Pretend Surprise When Trust Runs Out
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jan. 21, 2026) —The human cost is visible, and it is not to be minimized. Researchers cry in federal parking lots, their belongings packed into bags. Lifelong scientific vocations rupture in a single administrative notice. Labs go dark. Careers flatline. Nature’s latest feature on the fallout from U.S. science…
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Debunking the Climate Change Consensus – Part 1
by Tom Harris, ©2025 (Apr. 8, 2025) — It is a tiresome drone we hear all the time—the consensus of world scientists agree, we are causing a climate emergency and we must do everything possible to stop it! But it is a stupid statement that means nothing. Most scientists are not expert in the causes…
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Let’s Say Man IS Changing the Climate. So What?
by Selwyn Duke, New American Prophet, ©2024 (Dec. 3, 2024) — “The temperature is rising!” “The temperature is dropping.” The temperature is staying the same.” We argue the “facts” of climate change (even as parts of New Jersey were just buried under 11 inches of global warming). One side wants the facts to show that man is…
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A New Vision of Transformative Medical Research via NIH to Make America Healthy Again
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Nov. 12, 2024) — I SEE FOUR PRIORITIES FOR TRANSFORMATIVE MEDICAL RESEARCH AND TRANSFORMATIVE MEDICINE: PREVENTING AND REVERSING IATROGENIC ILLNESS. MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. METABOLIC DISORDER AND DIABETES. PREVENTING AND TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE. We will set scientists free to be scientists and free physicians to be healers. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making…
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What Does it Mean for the Public to “Trust Science”?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Sep. 18, 2024) — What does it indeed mean to have a society that “trusts science”? The phrase is invoked everywhere, from policy debates to media headlines, and it implies a near-universal reverence for scientific institutions like the NIH, NSF, and NASA. Yet, beneath this notion of trust…
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Looking for Answers to the Autism Epidemic in All the Wrong Places
“AN ESCALATING PANDEMIC” by Joan Swirsky, ©2014 (Apr. 2, 2014) — Just last week, on March 24, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) released its latest data on autism. After surveying medical and school records from 11 states, the CDC found that autism has more than doubled since the new…