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Illinois Politicians’ Brazen #1 Priority: Paying Themselves
June 2, 2015 0

Illinois Politicians’ Brazen #1 Priority: Paying Themselves

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Illinois Politicians’ Brazen #1 Priority: Paying Themselves It’s no secret that politicians in general are a self-serving lot, primarily concerned about doing whatever it takes to get reelected. Taxpayers be damned in the process. As usual, Illinois politicians lead the way in brazen graft on such manners as excerpts from Illinoisans Suffer, Politicians Get Paid by Jeffrey Schwab, attorney for the Illinois Policy Institute shows

Steve McIntyre in the library with the knife
March 29, 2014 0

Steve McIntyre in the library with the knife

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Tweet Steve McIntyre, in his usual passive aggressive style been harassing the University of Western Australia to use " the coercive power of the state to force other people to give him, gratis, the fruits of their labor".  In this case, of course what McIntyre wants is the data used in LOG12, Lewandowsky, Oberauer and Gignac (2012) aka Recursive Fury which had been published by Frontiers in Psychology and recently retracted because of complaints which threatened legal action.  The recursive fury which had broken lose among those who felt themselves called out only recursed with the retraction, with new recurses.

March 22, 2014 0

Continuous plagiarism of James Annan needed

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Tweet William sez people are slamming Roger Pielke Jr. without engaging his arguments. Okay, that’s pretty easy in that it’s mostly the same old stuff that James Annan answered eight years ago : This is something I’ve been meaning to blog about for some time.

Mordor Of Our Own Making
March 22, 2014 0

Mordor Of Our Own Making

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Tweet Now some, not Eli may consider Eli to be a bit, shall we say sardonic and prone to look through a glass darkly.  Eli knows this is not the case, because he has a friend Dano who makes Eli look like the Easter Bunny spreading cheer.  Dano writesBunnies may have sensed a disturbance in the force (no, not the gravitational waves from inflation after the Big Bang) surrounding a foofaraw over some negative comments about the meaning of several recent papers on future resource trends, and especially a paper discussed at The Guardian and elsewhere .  That paper ** is, of course, Motesharrei et al. A Minimal Model for Human and Nature Interaction .

Silence Is Consent
March 19, 2014 0

Silence Is Consent

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves