And why that shouldn’t have been a surprise.
The facts (as known today)
The speedy development of the mRNA vaccines for COVID was a great accomplishment; the vaccines saved many lives and even more hospitalizat More...
But that doesn’t mean all challenges are right.
In the beginning, scientists in Wuhan, the only scientists who had direct access to Covid data at the time, said that the disease couldn’t spread from person to person; it only spread when infected food was eaten. The World Health Organizati More...
Plants made our current atmosphere and plants can keep it balanced.
When plants first showed up on earth about 3.5 billion years ago, carbon dioxide made up more than 20% of the atmosphere. There was no significant oxygen in the air so More...
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has a simple solution for reducing atmospheric levels of CO2 without undoing civilization as we know it or denying people in developing countries the right to live as we do. Although Salk believes that More...
Is the climate changing? Yes, of course. 20,000 years ago there was a mile of ice over the top of 4,000 foot Mt. Mansfield in Vermont. Long before that, there was no ice at the earth’s poles More...
Borrowed from Astronomer Carl Sagan.
He called them rules for avoiding baloney but he wrote at a politer time. Given the flood of alleged science on the Internet and the impossibility of fact-checking it all, these rules are even more More...
Which of these statements is scientific?
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