Tag: chemistry

June 8, 2015 0

Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine

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Tweet Haven’t done a foreign policy post in a while, so here’s three in one: 1. The list above shows messed-countries and messed-up outcomes, so that part’s consistent, but what’s inconsistent is the level of effort by the US to change the outcome.

June 5, 2015 0

Where Did That Come From

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Tweet In the discussion about Fred Seitz that John threw the burning tree onto Willard pointed to an answer that Eli had not known.  Maybe John Mashey had figured it out but not Eli. So everybunny today older than about 12 years knows about the OISM petition, a mail campaign started in 2003 based on a Monckton class deceptive paper by Soon, Baliunas and Robinson, Robinson being Art Robinson, a chemist who used to work with Linus Pauling and went off to form a home schooling operation housed in a barn in Oregon called the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

June 2, 2015 0

The role of Fred Seitz

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Russell Seitz said… PP:I have always deplored the elision of science and advertising, but I question the historicity of Oreskes narrative . State of the art advertising best practices began shaping environmental consciousness raising campiagns a decade before the Climate Wars began, and from what I’ve observed ,those practices were enbraced with professional zeal by P-R operatives on both sides

May 25, 2015 0

Plain Speaking

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— Jeff Nesbit (@jeffnesbit) May 25, 2015 Maurice Strong  Newman, is the usual "business" advisor to the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.