For The IDiots

Merchants Of Doubt

From one of the book's authors, Naomi Oreskes.  The interview is from 2014, but the videos recently posted :

Ben Carson's Scientific Ignorance

Is discussed here.

Here's A Video For DeNiArs

It discusses the difference between theories, hypotheses and laws.

Because one of the DeNiAr's ploys is to refer to the "LNT hypothesis".  

They're either too dumb to know the difference, or they think you're too dumb to know the difference.

Either way, they suck.

Science Deniers Must Be Denied

That's why this blog exists.

And Dr. Ben Carson, the second leading Republican candidate, is a science denier.

At a time, when we're not doing enough as it is.

Manufacturing Doubt

A video, dealing primarily with global warming, but it applies to radiation, tobacco, etc.:

Pollution Is Not Good For You

A review of the book, "Is A Little Pollution Good For You?" by Kevin C. Elliot which focuses on the flaws of hormesis from a philosophical perspective.

I just bought the book and have started reading it.

HPS Newsletter Publicly Available

The Health Physics Society has made their monthly newsletter available for public consumption.

I read the Boice Report within it.  It is John Boice's personal take on LNT.

I felt compelled to write him an email - pertinent parts below the fold.

The NRC Petition Against LNT (Science) Will Fail

So a bunch of petitioners (they refer to themselves as scientists, but they aren't doing science, they're petitioning) petitioned the NRC to ignore the theory of LNT when it promulgates regulations.

Can you imagine if a another bunch of ideologues petitioned the FDA to ignore the germ theory of disease when it promulgates its regulations?

Scientists Misbehaving

A publisher has had to retract a few dozen papers (not the first time, either).

The Psychology of Science Denial

Another video from U of Q (see yesterday):

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:

What Is The Philosophy Of Science All About?

With John Wilkins:

The Mind Of A Science Denier

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

Let's Talk Science Denial

With Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye:

Science Denial Charts Are Insufficient

Chris Mooney has a post in which he charts the influence of politics and religion on science denial.

At the end, he concludes that our sense of personal identity is the major influence.

The "I'm Not A Scientist" Cop-out

Employed by....you guessed it...Redumblicans.

Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash

Have you heard about the crash?

What if the company's CEO, Sir Richard Branson, had appeared on T.V. and said something like:

"This is a tragedy.  Please join me in signing a letter denouncing the science of physics, particularly the horrible theory of general relativity (our theory of gravity).  We mustn't let this happen again.  A pilot was killed and another injured.  The costs have been in the millions.  Please denounce general relativity."

Jesus...The "Science Isn't Incompatible With Faith" Delusion Again

In the Atlantic dealing with the Pope's views on evolution.

The author completely ignores a fundamental Catholic myth.

That Jesus had to die in order to get forgiveness for Original Sin (Adam & Eve stuff).

If Adam & Eve didn't exist (they didn't) and Original Sin never happened (it didn't), then Catholicism blows up.  The whole Jesus myth becomes even more nonsensical.

Someone should tell the author that the reason the Pontifical Academy of Sciences exists is because faith is incompatible with science.   They need THEIR version of science, instead of an objective version of science.

And what about that wafer turning into the flesh of Jesus after one eats it?  Is that science?

Zombie worship isn't science.

Science Denial & Religious LGBT Phobia

"There are numerous reasons why science denial is dangerous."