Conspiracies all the way down: Is your local climate contrarian a kook or a...
Conspiracies all the way down: Is your local climate contrarian a kook or a crook?A new paper has just been published. This paper is going to cause an uproar in the science denialist community. Mud...
View ArticleInterview with HIV denier-turned-science-advocate John Strangis
Interview with HIV denier-turned-science-advocate John StrangisLong-term readers of the blog know of my interest in HIV denialism, especially as it is maintained and spread via the Internet. In my...
View ArticleHow To Evaluate Science Stories
How To Evaluate Science StoriesI'm on my way to a taping of the Humanist Views with Host Scott Lohman. I do these now and then and have done so since I first moved to Minnesota back when it was still...
View ArticleClimate Change is Real, and Important, David Siegel
Climate Change is Real, and Important, David SiegelA week or so ago, I got a couple of emails and tweets about a blog post on Medium.com, an internet thing of which I had never heard. Apparently...
View ArticleLamar Smith: Nothing more than a hippie puncher
Lamar Smith: Nothing more than a hippie puncherCongressman Lamar Smith is a well known science denier, especially a climate science denier.Recently, he admitted that the House committee he runs is a...
View ArticleThe Inconceivably Bogus Republican Science Committee Hearings
The Inconceivably Bogus Republican Science Committee HearingsLast week, House Representative Lamar Smith held yet another masturbatory hearing to promote climate science denial. Smith is bought and...
View ArticleMy letter to the New York Times
My letter to the New York TimesThe New York Times Elizabeth Spayed, Public EditorDear Elizabeth,I am writing to express my concern for the addition of Bret Stephens to the NYT team as a columnist.I...
View ArticleVaccine advocacy 101
Vaccine advocacy 101I recently finished a 2-year stint as an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer. It's an excellent program--ASM pays all travel expenses for lecturers, who speak...
View ArticleClimate Change in the 'Hood
Climate Change in the 'HoodOn Class M, James Hrynyshyn shows us how climate change will benefit the economies of some U.S. counties while damaging many others. This mostly has to do with location;...
View ArticleAsk Exxon
Ask ExxonRemember the revelation back a year or so ago that Exxon Mobil knew all about the likely effects of the global warming they contributed to, and the subsequent denials by Exxon that this was...
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