Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
TL;DR; … Nope. Roughly one year ago Wired ran an article about a vote within the House on an amendment to a debate over construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The vote would not result in any legislation, but was just a bit of political theatre and was specifically asking if “Climate Change is real and not a … Read more
The #MarchForScience is scheduled to happen on 22nd April. The official “March For Science” website explains it as follows … SCIENCE, NOT SILENCE The March for Science is a celebration of our passion for science and a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. Recent policy changes have caused heightened worry among scientists, and … Read more
I am proud to announce that I personally survived the #BowlingGreenMassacre and can officially mark myself on social media as “safe”. Many of my friends are also announcing that they also survived. “Hey, what happened?” you might ask. The story is this. Last Thursday Kellyanne Conway (yes ‘her’), appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews. There she proceeded defend the illegal, … Read more
What does the EPA actually do? Since day one of the existence of the EPA in Dec 1970, it has done nothing but good that has benefited millions of lives. You can of course read up on the EPA, but perhaps a good way to illustrate what they are really all about is to highlight a couple of … Read more
What is rather astonishing is the observation that Trump can more or less do anything without in any way disrupting the support he enjoys amongst his devoted followers. Let’s play a small thought experiment. Let’s suppose that he was caught boasting on tape about committing sexual assault upon women … oh wait, that has happened, and … Read more
Richard Cohen, a graduate of Columbia University Law school, and now president of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), has issued a rather important statement. First a quick bit of background. Who is Richard Cohen? This is a guy who is passionate about human rights and people. In 1997, the national legal magazine The American Lawyer selected … Read more