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Saturday, December 27, 2014

What Have Climatologists Learned...

From fighting deniers?  Pretty much the same thing others have learned in fighting deniers of other sciences, like tobacco toxicology, evolutionary biology, and....hey, wait!

No mention of health physics!

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Dan Hirsch Attacks Diablo Canyon Safety

He's an anti-nuclear power activist, but one of the more rational ones:


Where Have All The SORRY DeNiArs Gone?

The DeNiAr group called SARI, which I refer to as SORRY, seems to have lost most of their membership based on their website listing (I'm intentionally withholding a link).  They may just be re-organizing into Members and Associate Members, I don't know.

Where have all the DeNiArs gone?  Sing along!

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Do Something!

Helping young folks make a difference on important issues like climate change:


I Agree With Mark Kermode

I don't even know who he is, but he has reviewed the documentary, "Merchants of Doubt" and he finds the subject enraging.  As do I:


Friday, December 12, 2014

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Yale Cancer Course

It's free and on Youtube.  Here's a section on clonal expansion as an evolutionary process:


Monday, December 8, 2014

Institute Of Physics? Really?

Here's a review from a couple of years ago on DeNiAr Wade Allison's book.

Besides the book being mostly fiction, did you catch this?

"Only 1 nucleus in a million has changed since the formation of the earth 6,000 years ago."

The Earth formed 6,000 years ago?


Sunday, December 7, 2014

Merchants Of Doubt - The Movie

The great book by Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway is now a movie.  I haven't registered to watch it

Here's the trailer.

How DeNiArs Are Like Creationists

DeNiArs (health physics deniers who don't think low dose radiation can cause cancer) are like Creationists (biology deniers who don't accept species evolution) in many ways. See right hand side of this page for "Comparing the Creationist and Hormesis Cults".

Friday, December 5, 2014

The Mind Of A Science Denier

With Donald Prothero (hey, Don...what about health physics denial?):


Keith Baverstock - A Refreshing Voice Over DeNiAl

I posted a video of DeNiAr Wade Allison at the FCCJ yesterday. 

Here's Keith Baverstock discussing Fukushima and UNSCEAR,  

He slams Allison at about 21:00, "He's a crank":






Free Fukushima Book

Can be downloaded here.  Unfortunately, the chapter of radiation health effects includes this:

"Some researchers subscribe to the once discredited hormesis concept, a hypothesis that receiving low ionizing radiation in doses just above the natural background level may induce beneficial biological responses. The proponents of this hypothesis explain that a number of compensatory and reparatory mechanisms (e.g., stimulation of the immune response and DNA repair, and activation of apoptosis that eliminates damaged cells that would otherwise become cancerous) are stimulated in response to small doses of ionizing radiation."

It's still discredited....whether some researchers subscribe to the concept or not.

Wade Allison Fools Journalists

The problem with journalists, is that they feel compelled to get both sides of a story.  

See this video at about 1:30.  

That's not how science works.  We have scientific consensus bodies which draw conclusions based on the evidence.

Wade Allison can't accept those conclusions, so he makes up his own "science".


Uranium Drive In

Is a documentary concerning a small town's battle for or against opening a uranium mill.

It's airing right now on the PIVOT channel.