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Saturday, December 27, 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 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!
No mention of health physics!
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
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!
Where have all the DeNiArs gone? Sing along!
Saturday, December 13, 2014
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
Thursday, December 11, 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?
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.
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".
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Friday, December 5, 2014
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.
"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.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
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.
It's airing right now on the PIVOT channel.
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