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Tag Archives: Bad Science
Sammy Wilson MP – an ex-Environment Minister
Apart from Graham Stinger (a former chemist) – and Classics graduate Lord Monckton (who has turned climate change scepticism into an art form) – all sceptical UK politicians have a background in economics and/or business. As it is the economic … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Climate Science, Consumerism, Economics, Environment, Growthmania, Liberalism, Limits to Growth, Politics, Scepticism
Tagged Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, Fred Singer, Garrett Hardin
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MMR and MRSA – health scares and bowel movements
My children are of such an age that they were due to get the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine in 1998 (just when Andrew Wakefield first got his research published). I am very glad we ignored the fuss and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Environment, Maketplace of Ideas, Populism, Pseudo science, Scepticism
Tagged Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, Health Scares, relativism
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What are the roots of this financial crisis?
As Europe lurches from one day of crisis to another, it is common to hear people ask “Where will it all end?” However, I think it is more important to ask “How did it all start?” With regard to the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Consumerism, Economics, Environment, Financial Crisis, Limits to Growth, Scepticism
Tagged Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, Euro Zone crisis, life
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The road to hell is paved with good inventions
…that are not true! Earlier this year, I posted a review of Prof. Ian Plimer’s most recent 500-page epic, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – the Missing Science, on amazon.co.uk under the title “Nice book (cover) – shame about the … Continue reading
AGW – What would Jesus do?
Amongst Christians, it is a popular past-time to ask “What would Jesus do?” But let’s be a little more PC about this… What would Muhammad, or King Solomon, or Buddha, or Confucius do? In fact, what would Francis Bacon, Thomas … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Economics, Environment, Hockey Stick Illusion, IPCC, James Delingpole, Limits to Growth, Maketplace of Ideas, Merchants of Doubt, Philosophy, Religion, Scepticism
Tagged Andrew Montford, Bad Science, Clive Hamilton, Fred Singer, IPCC, James Delingpole, James Inhofe
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Conspiracy theory – History for losers
So says David Aaronovitch in Voodoo Histories – and he is absolutely right. (For the benefit of new readers, David Aaronovitch is an old favourite of mine but let’s not digress; unless you want to)… In 2007, the American Physical … Continue reading
How to be a climate change ‘sceptic’
If I have not said it before, the reason sceptic is inside quotation marks is because I take the view, as do Clive Hamilton, Peter Jacques, and David MacKay, that those who deny anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) are not sceptics … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Environment, Scepticism
Tagged Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, Clive Hamilton, David MacKay, Peter Jacques
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The problem of arguing with a sceptic
I recently got into a discussion over on the Amazon website with another ex-Telegraph blogger, regarding Peter Taylor’s Chill, A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory: Does Climate Change Mean the World is Cooling, and If So What Should We Do … Continue reading