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Federal Judge Partly Blocks RFK Jr’s Anti-Vaccine Wrecking Ball
This is a tiny ray of light in what has been a gloomy year for science-based federal health policy. Recently U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy in Boston ruled that the actions of RFK Jr. as HHS...
View ArticleIs Climate Science “Post Normal” Science – Part II
Yesterday I started a response to this article, which seems to me fits cleanly into a science-denial format. The author is making a lawyers case against the notion of climate change, using classic...
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2023 Hottest Year on Record
What everyone knew was coming is now official – 2023 was the warmest year on record. This means we can also say that the last 10 years are the hottest decade on record. 2023 dethrones 2016 as the...
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2015 to 2022 Eight Warmest Years on Record
Happy New Year to all my readers. Early in each new year I like to see what the preliminary reports are for the climate over the past year. Final number crunching won’t be available for months, and it...
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Industry of Doubt
It should come as a surprise to no one that the fossil fuel industry has been financing a vast public relations campaign over the last three decades to sow confusion and doubt about human-caused...
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Anti-Vaxxers Strike Back
This is going to be a long struggle, perhaps endless. Antivaxxers have been around since there have been vaccines, for over two hundred years, so there is no reason to expect they are going anywhere....
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The Climate is Always Changing
Whenever the issue of climate comes up on this blog (or even just in the comments on unrelated articles), climate change deniers make an appearance. Consistently they use terrible arguments – relying...
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Golden Rice Finally Released in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has cleared the way for the cultivation of golden rice, with the first plantings 2-3 months away. This is great news. Golden rice is genetically modified to have higher levels of...
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Study – Still No Link Between Autism and MMR Vaccine
I know this is old news – or at least it should be – but it bears repeating, especially as we are in the midst of a resurgence of measles. There is no link between the mumps, measles, and rubella...
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Dunning Kruger and GMO Opposition
I have written extensively about GMOs (gentically modified organisms) here, and even dedicated a chapter of my book to the topic, because it is the subject about which the difference between public...
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Goop Nonsense – Yes It Matters
Paltrow has defended her “lifestyle brand” by saying that they are just giving women choices, and being open. Nonsense – don’t be swayed by such distractions. I unapologetically support reason and...
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Update on Arctic Sea Ice
The extent of Arctic sea ice is an important marker for global climate change. In the last forty years it also has been unequivocally shrinking. NASA has been tracking Arctic sea ice extent at...
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