Category archive: Junk Science
Underlying Reasons for a Decay in Moral Integrity
By Chuck Roger • August 30th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Recently, I engaged in a thought-provoking email exchange with a Clear Thinking subscriber on the topic of the decay in scientific integrity. The reader observed that a “lack of ethics and despicable moral behavior is replete in all areas of our society,” not just, for instance, in the global warming scientific community. [...]
‘Climate Vote Project’ wants nations held to ‘legally binding climate protection’
By Chuck Roger • August 29th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér A few weeks ago in a post titled, “Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance” (originally ran as “Education Department indoctrinates kids in global warming myths” in American Thinker), I noted that government ideologues are pushing climate change falsehoods on schoolchildren in order to [...]
Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance
By Chuck Roger • August 5th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Ideologues in our federal government are pushing falsehoods on children in order to spread the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming. CNSNews.com reports that the Department of Education hosted an event in which children were read scientifically baseless claims from books featuring Sponge Bob Square Pants and [...]
EPA’s Ozone Charade Chokes Industry for No Health Benefit
By Chuck Roger • August 4th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Environmentalist ideologues in the Obama administration are making up more reasons to wipe out more jobs. The story is a sordid one. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson calls a tightening in the ozone standard during George W. Bush’s presidency “not legally defensible.” Why? Not because the lower threshold is [...]
Dissecting Progressive Arrogance, Part VII: ‘Climate Change’ Follies
By Chuck Roger • July 15th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, please enjoy this re-post of the “Dissecting progressive arrogance” series. More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, III, IV, V, VI By Chuck Rogér Progressive Arrogance 101 Main Learning: The ability to role model ideological zealotry an utter [...]
Programming Scientists to Perform Social Engineering
By Chuck Roger • June 14th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at National Association of Scholars By Chuck Rogér An Arizona State University professor wants to train physical scientists to be social engineers. Political science professor David Guston contends that “stakeholders” in academia and industry should work with consumers and the feds to manage the “societal implications” of “environmental health and safety issues” surrounding certain technological [...]
Dissecting Progressive Arrogance, Part VII: ‘Climate Change’ Follies
By Chuck Roger • April 22nd, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, III, IV, V, VI Progressive Arrogance 101 Main Learning: The ability to role model ideological zealotry an utter disregard for fact and logic the gullibility to swallow other zealots’ twists of fact and logic ignorance of the scientific method self-righteous preachiness and a superior attitude in [...]
The decline of science due to user problems, Part II: sexy birds, money, and ‘climate change’
By Chuck Roger • January 28th, 2011 12:30 am
Yesterday’s post addressed how human nature can corrupt the scientific method. At the core of the discussion was a study conducted by psychologist Jonathan Schooler and summarized by Jonah Lehrer. Here is the crux of the argument presented as to why many of today’s scientific investigations yield non-reproducible (in other words, wrong) conclusions. Scientists, mere [...]
The decline of science due to user problems, Part I: scientists are people
By Chuck Roger • January 27th, 2011 12:30 am
The scientific method is just that–a method. And methods can be corrupted by people. Today’s most notorious illustration of junk science is the human-caused global warming hoax. However, even scientists who genuinely want to perform objective research are capable of practicing flawed science. In an article covering the rising incidence of flawed science, Wired magazine [...]
Using real science to dismantle the pretend science of global warmists
By Chuck Roger • January 25th, 2011 12:30 am
You’d think that with so many very cold, snowy winters, as well as objective climate research finally being conducted, that global warming zealots would give it a rest. Here’s a January 12 National Snow Analysis satellite image from the National Weather Service showing the United States 71% covered in snow. (Hat tip to Anthony Watts [...]
‘Consensus’ science, global warming, and Obama’s reality-blind EPA
By Chuck Roger • January 19th, 2011 12:30 am
Three of the last four winters in the Northern Hemisphere, including the current winter, have been very cold and snowy. Hmm. Anthony Watts, who runs the Watts Up With That? website, recently posted a synopsis of certain aspects of the sun’s activity over the last ten years. The post is worth a look, especially if you’re [...]
Pushing Junk Science on Children
By Chuck Roger • October 7th, 2010 2:47 am
Originally in American Thinker, October 6, 2010. Humans have angered Mother Nature. Our species must stop multiplying, give up our addiction to huge-screen HDTVs, stop eating so many steer, and travel on twenty-pound electric tricycles forty miles at a time between charging stations. Otherwise, we are doomed. This is a story about the ruling class [...]
Global warming zealot-filled National Academy of Sciences loses all credibility
By Chuck Roger • May 27th, 2010 9:04 pm
No “global warming” in a decade-and-a-half and cooling for seven to nine years? Oh, and CO2 increases only after the atmosphere warms? Yes, in six studies covering 650,000 years of data, CO2 was found to rise only after temperatures rose. So unless we can say with a straight face that the dead terrorist on the [...]
Minnesota’s frigid cold has produced some scatterbrained agenda hounds
By Chuck Roger • February 3rd, 2010 10:21 pm
A University of Minnesota “study” has come up with some recommendations for education policymakers. Before we proceed, let’s understand that although unstated, the “researchers” present findings appear to be motivated by the thoroughly discredited contention that humankind’s technological carbon emissions cause “global warming.” You won’t find this stated outright anywhere in the UM paper, but [...]
One More Reason Global Warmists Have Always Been Full of Crap–How Ice Melts
By Chuck Roger • February 3rd, 2010 12:30 am
Stay with me here. The following physics lesson might at first seem a tad tedious, but it is brief and the payoff is worth it. What is heat? Heat is energy associated with the natural vibrations of molecules or atoms in matter. When heat increases, it agitates those molecules or atoms, causing them to move [...]
See no data, hear no data, spew total nonsense
By Chuck Roger • January 28th, 2010 11:04 pm
Drop 94% of Canadian weather stations from your database, including 99% of the ones above the Arctic Circle, and you think you’ll end up with higher average temperatures? From the Vancouver Sun: In the 1970s, nearly 600 Canadian weather stations fed surface temperature readings into a global database assembled by the U.S. National Oceanic and [...]
We are warmists, we are righteous, we fake data
By Chuck Roger • January 26th, 2010 11:43 pm
Ignore data from high altitudes and really chilly places, exclude rural temperatures from consideration, emphasize urban heat islands, and do whatever else it takes to make your story stick. Joseph D’Aleo, Executive Director of International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, finds that this is what global warmists have done to produce the appearance of human-caused [...]
An ongoing study in baseless, totalitarian ‘climate-change’ zealotry
By Chuck Roger • January 25th, 2010 11:05 pm
The human-caused “climate change” zealots’ club known as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was “forced to withdraw [its 'melting glaciers assertion'] because it has no scientific foundation.” Just as with nearly all global warmist nonsense, we have in the case of phantom melting Himalayan glaciers yet another example of wealth redistribution hounds sniffing [...]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science advances nonsense
By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2010 11:47 pm
The American Association for the Advancement of Science wants to: …allocate additional [science faculty] slots to U.S. racial and ethnic minorities [to protect universities from] likely lawsuits by groups seeking color-blind admissions policies. How long until we see the American Medical Association demand that medical schools “allocate additional slots to U.S. racial and ethnic minorities” [...]
Dishonest ideologues at Scientific American, a formerly scientific publication
By Chuck Roger • December 29th, 2009 11:09 pm
Christopher Monckton destroys Scientific American‘s silly global warming arguments. Monckton sometimes employs mathematics and science a bit beyond the reach of most laypersons. Still, the entire essay is well worth reading. For example, Monckton finds that: …the magazine says CO2 concentration has risen since 1832 from 284 parts per million by volume to 388 ppmv. It [...]
A concise primer for debunking global warmist nonsense
By Chuck Roger • December 13th, 2009 11:17 pm
A focused post from the Cato Institute does a wonderful job summarizing key facts about global climate. The most important points are items 1-3: 1. The Earth’s climate is constantly changing. The climate was changing in the past, is changing now and, obviously, will be changing in the future – as long as our planet [...]
A funny thing happened on the way to the warming
By Chuck Roger • February 4th, 2009 11:31 pm
Last week Al Gore told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that we must take “bold action now” to stop global warming. After all, “The science is screaming at us.” The Arctic storm howling outside drowned out the loud chorus of scientists screaming the junk science that Gore preaches. To bolster the cause, Secretary of State Hillary [...]
