Category Archives: Bad Science

Time to stop the “debate”?

I am tired of reading the same rubbish spouted by climate denialists wherever a news agency publishes a story on climate change and then leaves it open for comment. The pattern is always the same: some idiot unthinkingly repeats a … Continue reading

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Three cups, one oil spill and a lot of balls

Today, agencies are reporting the wonderful news that 75% of the 4.9 million barrels of spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has miraculously just disappeared (mostly by evaporation and dispersal). Phew, that is good news isn’t it? There’s no … Continue reading

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I am unimpressed by David Willetts.

David Willetts is our new science minister. Apparently he thinks the best way to drive the scientific innovation that will be a leading cause of the economic recovery, when it comes, is to voluntarily step down from being world leaders in blue-sky … Continue reading

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Evil

Some days the news seems to come at you in a solid wall of sickening tales of human behaviour. I don’t believe in evil, although I do believe in evil acts. I don’t believe a fully-functioning and mentally sound human-being … Continue reading

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Denialism

There is one aspect of denialism that really busts my noggin. I find it so hard to get my mind around that I struggle to even put it into words, but I’ll have a go. Why is it that all … Continue reading

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A brace of videos on the most bracing of energy solutions.

When I watch videos like this, I want to shout from the roof top in frustration “WHY AREN’T WE ALREADY DOING THIS?!” In the light of the ongoing and increasingly worrisome Horizon oil spill it becomes even more relevant. I’d … Continue reading

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Today there was a little bit of win for science and for reason.

The British Chiropractic Association have dropped their ridiculous libel against Simon Singh. Original story from Ben Goldacre.

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Professor James Lovelock is a dangerous nut.

In this interview from The Today Program on the threat from global warming, he spouts such gems as; “it [climate change] didn’t happen in one of these smooth curves like these one of these modelers produce, it moved in a … Continue reading

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A few thoughts

Here is a collection of a few small thoughts I have had recently that aren’t really big enough for a whole post each, I thought I’d bung them together in a miscellany[1]: 1. Apparently I have been Follow Fridayed a bit … Continue reading

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Some graphic design

These just popped into my head this afternoon, so I sat up until 4.30 am doing them. I am an idiot. It only took me that long because my laptop wasn’t up to the job, but I couldn’t stop till … Continue reading

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