Category Archives: Liberalism

Happy New Year and Brain-teaser

Posted on January 1, 2017 by

I’d like to wish everybody a Happy New Year but, first, I’m going to give your brain a quick workout! Are the potential benefits of scientific research now limited only by political correctness and epigenetics? However, before giving you my … Continue reading →

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The elephant in the room with Lewandowsky

Posted on May 28, 2013 by

This post is based on something I wrote for Paul Handover’s Learning from Dogs website, which was published there earlier this month. As originally conceived, I gave it the title ‘Libertarian ideology is the real road block’. Having had a … Continue reading →

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Who owns the rain that falls from the sky?

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

I must thank fellow-blogger Paul Handover for alerting me to – and not posting on his own Learning from Dogs blog – the strange and disturbing real-life story of a man in Oregon who has been sent to jail for … Continue reading →

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Altman of moral environment

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

This may have little to do with the environment but – I’m sorry – I simply cannot remain silent any longer about the revelation that the financial services industry in London is almost unbelievably corrupt. We are watching history being … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Financial Crisis, Liberalism, Money Fetishism, Politics | Tagged , , | 28 Comments

Why I am not a Socialist

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

…and other things “sceptics” should bear in mind! In responding to the amazingly erudite blogger who is Patrice Ayme, on the subject of how we should treat all other life-forms with which we currently share this planet, I recently found … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Environment, Liberalism, Lindzengate, Richard Lindzen, Scepticism | Tagged , | 31 Comments

Go – Theresa May but Abu Qan’t-be-harder

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

Another catastrophic week for our banana-skin prone Coalition government in the UK. Talk about an unforced error by Home Secretary Theresa May. Whoever, or whatever will it be next? However, leaving aside arguments over appeal deadlines, the case of Abu … Continue reading →

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How to Avoid the Truth About Climate Change

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Barry Bickmore is Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University (Utah, USA). His research specialties are low-temperature geochemistry and geoscience education. In this 40-minute presentation (appended below), he discusses how he moved from being a climate change “sceptic” … Continue reading →

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