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Before CRUgate was BSgate

Wagathon wrote 2 weeks ago: As far back as July 2006 we were not just seeing the writing on the wall. Anyone who cared couldn’t … more →

Tags: The Cultural Hegemony of Climate Superstition, Global Warming is Nothing But a Hoax and a Scare Tactic, CRUGate, foi2009.pdf, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dr. Wegman, Dr.North, Dr. Mann

How do we know that what is claimed about history is not bogus? Part 16 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 weeks ago: Can we tell bogus history from real history? The straight answer is, it’s often difficult. Ele … more →

Tags: History, History documents, Bogus history, Voodoo history, accuracy, Hoaxes, Teaching, textbooks, Research

One more time: Recognizing bogus history7 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 weeks ago: 2012 is an election year, a time when we make history together as a nation.  Potential turning point … more →

Tags: accuracy, Bad Quotes, Bogus history, History, History Revisionism, Hoaxes, junk science, Voodoo history, Writing History

Is the anti-vaccine movement dangerous?1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 1 month ago: I get e-mail from Bob Park, the physicist curmudgeon/philosopher at the University of Maryland (I … more →

Tags: Health Care, Medicine, Science, Vaccinations, War on Science, woo, Andrew Wakefield, Autism's false prophets, health

voodooscience...becomes religion of the left

Tom Harley wrote 6 months ago: ‘The carbon tax is empty symbolism…Voodoo science leads Australia down a dark path … more →

Tags: Oz politics, Miranda Devine, Pink Batts, renewable energy market, Global downturn

The New Phrenology?

William L. Scurrah wrote 7 months ago: The nineteenth-century was as much a century of science as the twentieth or twenty-first.  Major bre … more →

Tags: My Topics:, Brain imaging, fMRI, Brain Scan, Phrenology, pseudoscience, social cognition, Vul

Interview: Science Project (Dub Temple)

grendelcakes wrote 7 months ago: After much discussion, several self imposed false starts and an exceptional amount of procrastinatio … more →

Tags: Music, Dank Morass, Science project, dub temple, Blood Dunza, 1988, voodoo dread, Brisbane Beat Sessions, Ender

Monckton in New Zealand: His reputation for fabrication preceded him11 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: John Abraham’s work ended up giving Christopher Monckton a bumpy ride into New Zealand, accord … more →

Tags: accuracy, climate change, climate_change, Politics, Voodoo history, War on Science, Christopher Monckton, Global Warming, John Abraham

DDT fanatic a former Monsanto lobbyist?4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 10 months ago: Sometimes in unexpected places you stumble across a factoid that makes sense out of a lot of other f … more →

Tags: ddt, environment, Environmental Protection, History, junk science, Politics, rachel carson, Environment, Science

Heritage Foundation urges that Africa be poisoned7 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Oh, not outwardly anti-Africa, but stupidly so. The extreme right-wing Heritage Foundation lashed ou … more →

Tags: Africa, History, Hoaxes, junk science, malaria, Medicine, Politics, Science, ddt

Voodoo Climate Science: What happend to those "50 Million Climate Refugees" the UN said would be displaced?2 comments

Scotty Starnes wrote 1 year ago: Most of us know that the ‘climate predictions’ made by the likes of Al Gore, environment … more →

Tags: Political Issues, Al Gore, U. N., United Nations, Global Warming, climate change, ipcc, Climate refugees, United Nations Environment Program

What sort of crazy is the warming denialist? 3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: I’ve got to stop looking over there. Goddard’s got a post up showing the great disregard … more →

Tags: Birth Certificate, Bogus history, climate change, climate_change, Creationism, Denialism, History, junk science, Science

Fox News needs to rein in Steven Milloy5 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: The stuff NPR’s money guy said is rather pale by comparison.  Fox News needs to act, and apolo … more →

Tags: News, political smear, Politics, Voodoo history, civility, Fox News, Steven Milloy

Green Hell? Milloy slanders Ruckelshaus as "mass murderer"4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: This week, EPA bashing took front and center on the performance stage that passes as Congress these … more →

Tags: accuracy, climate change, climate_change, cost of green, Global Warming, History, Law, Libel and Slander, malaria

Hoaxing Congress: Claiming DDT as pixie dust13 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Tuesday morning, March 8,  the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Committee on Energy an … more →

Tags: accuracy, ddt, Environmental Protection, History, malaria, Science, Voodoo history, War on Science, World Health Organization (WHO)

Roger Bate's simple lie about DDT4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: In the last two weeks we’ve seen a virtual-world assault by Richard Tren, Roger Bate and Don R … more →

Tags: ddt, Hoaxes, malaria, Voodoo history, American Enterprise Institute, History, rachel carson, Roger Bate, Science

DDT: Zombie ideas of the right-winged and ill-informed3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: John Quiggin’s done with his book, Zombie Economics:  How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. Cove … more →

Tags: Books, ddt, Economics, History, Politics, Science, Voodoo history, john quiggin, Zombie Economics

Quote of the moment: Lewis Carroll on Republican politics, climate skeptics, DDT advocates and creationism

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Alice and the Red Queen - illustration by Sir John Tenniel Alice laughed: “There’s no us … more →

Tags: Books, Creationism, Denialism, Global Warming, History, Literature, Politics, Quotes, Voodoo history

Called this one right: DDT advocates think poison is always the answer

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: This is a story about the persistence of bad information, and about the flow of news and other new i … more →

Tags: accuracy, ddt, Health Care, India, Journalism, junk science, malaria, Science, Voodoo history


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