August 10, 2019

Spare Me Your Moralizing, David Brooks

In an August 1st opinion piece for the New York Times, David Brooks once again demonstrates that his grasp on basic American principles is shockingly weak.  Mr. Brooks has built an entire career writing smooth words to draw adulation from the Ma...

February 2, 2017

'Alternative facts': A common legal term

It has been rather shocking to observe the recent tidal wave of derision hoisted upon President Trump’s senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway – shocking not because the derision is the deserved blowback for a foolish, embarrassing utteran...

May 29, 2015

Ben & Jerry's Doesn't Let Facts Get In Way of 'Climate Justice'

In a recently published info-graphic, entitled “Climate Change By The Numbers”, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream serves up a seamy confection of poor analysis, misleading truths, and downright falsehoods.  The bright and breezy asse...

September 13, 2014

The Economist Strains to Salvage AGW Theory

In science, a valid hypothesis must be predictive. If it is not, it is deemed to be wrong. When it comes to the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (i.e. AGW), the prediction was decidedly straightforward:  higher global temperatures. Th...

July 16, 2014

'Mississippi Baby' Demonstrates That Real Science Is Rarely Settled

Recently, a treatment for HIV that was believed to be one of the most promising breakthroughs ever in the fight against AIDS ran into harsh reality. Back in 2010, a baby girl, now known simply as “Mississippi Baby”, was born. The girl had...

July 8, 2014

Yes, Harper's Magazine Actually Published These Two Sentences

In “Promises, Promises”, an article appearing in the current (July) issue of Harper’s Magazine, Mark Hertsgaard takes President Obama to task for his failure to live up to his campaign promises... promises as they relate to the envi...

August 30, 2013

NPR and Global Warming

This week, NPR aired a story about the recent "hiatus" in global warming. While I certainly expected the same-old, same-old, I didn't anticipate the depths of 'double-think' to which NPR is capable of stooping. Talk about an anti-intellectual shell g...