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CATEGORY: Geek-Culture2

You’re not geeky enough for our con

I really should enjoy cons. But cliquishness and pettiness by my fellow geeks drove me away, and recent reports suggest not much has changed in the decade since I last attended a con.

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CATEGORY: Climate

Climate Illogic: the flat Earth consensus

It’s most illogical for climate disruption deniers to arguing against the overwhelming scientific consensus regarding the industrial nature of climate disruption using the flat Earth analogy.

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Who should be the next Doctor Who?

Who would you like to play the Doctor next, especially if the Doctor regenerated into a female body for the first time? What actresses do you think could pull it off?

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CATEGORY: Climate

The Galileo Fallacy: introducing Climate Illogic, a new series unmasking illogical claims made against climate science

Climate disruption deniers who claiming to be like Galileo battling the Catholic Church are making a fundamentally illogical argument.

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CATEGORY: Guns

I hate handguns, but I have still considered owning one

I’d never own a handgun to protect myself from the government. Protesting myself my armed fellow Americans who are terrified of the government, on the other hand….

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CATEGORY: Climate

Largest study of peer-reviewed literature to date finds overwhelming climate disruption consensus (UPDATED)

A new study of 11,944 peer-reviewed papers over the course of 21 years finds that 97% of all papers with a stated position on climate disruption, and 98.4% of their authors, agree that human activity is driving climate disruption.

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CATEGORY: CrimeCorruption

Forced miscarriages, however horrible, should not qualify as “murder”

Yesterday I heard that Ariel Castro was being charged by the prosecutor with several counts of “aggravated murder” for each of the miscarriages he caused Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and/or Gina DeJesus. I don’t have a problem with Castro, assuming he’s found guilty of the various crimes that he’s been charged with, being locked away […]

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CATEGORY: Climate

Climate Science for Everyone: How much heat can the air and ocean store?

Water stores a lot more energy than air does. So when energy stored in the oceans is released back into the atmosphere, the results are dramatic.

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CATEGORY: Climate

A survey of climate science, crowdsourced

John Cook, editor of the climate website SkepticalScience.com and Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia, is conducting a crowd-sourced online survey of 12,000 climate papers. S&R was approached by Cook to participate by posting a link to the survey website at the University of Queensland. According to […]

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CATEGORY: PoliticsLawGovernment3

Lamar Smith wants politics to overrule scientific merit at the National Science Foundation

Lamar Smith (R-TX) wants politics to drive how the National Science Foundation awards funding to research, not scientific merit.

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CATEGORY: Climate

Taylor attacks his critics instead of correcting his distortions of a peer-reviewed study

James Taylor of the Heartland Institute compound his original mistake of distorting a peer-reviewed survey by repeating his distortions and choosing to attack his critics instead of correcting his many original mistakes.

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CATEGORY: Climate

Heartland Institute’s James Taylor falsely claims a new study rejects climate consensus [Updated]

James Taylor of the Heartland Institute distorts yet another peer-reviewed study in a vain attempt to counter the overwhelming number of climate experts and scientists who accept the reality of industrial climate disruption.

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CATEGORY: ArtsWeek

Our favorite lyrics: S&R describes why we love certain lyrics, if not necessarily the song

Over the years I’ve come to a realization – some of my favorite songs have really stupid lyrics, and some of my favorite lyrics are in songs I’m not a big fan of or, in at least one case, I can’t stand. As a result, I put the following question to my fellow Scrogues: what […]

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Venus’ surface temperature series updated

In early May, 2011 I posted a five-part series about the surface temperature of Venus. In it I demonstrated that the Venus’ surface temperature – hot enough to melt lead – was not a result of internal heating from Venus’ core. Instead, the greenhouse effect of Venus’ largely carbon dioxide atmosphere is the reason the […]

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CATEGORY: EnvironmentNature

Heartland’s Taylor fails to discredit authors of National Climate Assessment

Heartland Institute senior fellow James Taylor’s tries – and fails – to discredit the draft National Climate Assessment by attacking a small minority of the Assessment’s authors.

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CATEGORY: EnvironmentNature

Media Trackers writer ignorant of academia and climate issues, hypocritical regarding ethics

Alyssa Carducci of Media Trackers-Florida and The Heartland Institute revealed her ignorance of academia and climate issues and her hypocrisy regarding ethics when she misrepresented herself in order to obtain information on scientist Michael Mann’s speaking fees.

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