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The Montreal Solution
November 11, 2014 0

The Montreal Solution

By News Desk

Tweet There has been an ethically lacking attempt by the usual suspects, Lomborg, Pielke, the Breakthrough folk and now Matt Ridley to claim that coal is necessary for the developing world to prosper and we will all be so rich in the future that doing nothing now about climate change does not matter.

Brian Schmidt has a video
October 31, 2014 0

Brian Schmidt has a video

By News Desk

Tweet UPDATE:   Developing Story  see below Eli’s friend, Brian Schmidt is running for re-election to the Santa Clara Valley Water District Board.  Brian has been endorsed by the San Jose Mercury News and much of the other media in the area, but his opponent is rich, and, well probably not much constrained. Take a look at the video and, if you are in the area, please vote for Brian UPDATE:  As shown in the video, a scurrilous mailer was sent to voters in the Santa Clara Valley by an organization called the Neighborhood Empowerment Coalition that operates, among other things an astroturf website

Vaccine Dysfunction
October 26, 2014 0

Vaccine Dysfunction

By News Desk

Tweet Vaccine denial, more accurately refusing to take vaccines or allow one’s children to do so, is indeed a symptom of Dunning-Krugar syndrome, Those seeking a reason why something awful has happened to their children, especially autism are easy prey to self promoters such as Andrew Wakefield, and let Eli be frank, for others it is a living. As David Dunning points out we are " unbridled pattern recognizers and profligate theorizers " especially when there is no there there

Perfect Timing: NATO-Backed Terror Group Kills French Tourist
September 25, 2014 0

Perfect Timing: NATO-Backed Terror Group Kills French Tourist

By News Desk

In a   2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) report   and a 2011 CTC report, " Are Islamist Extremists Fighting Among Libya’s Rebels? ," AQIM is specifically mentioned as working closely with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) in NATO-backed efforts to overthrow the Libyan government.