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A graph that made a difference.

I  well remember the dire forecasts of massive starvation from world population growth. 

Is it any wonder that some people are kinda suspicious of similar apocalyptic predictions for manmade global warming?

"The discovery is a 'big deal' if true, but still needs to be confirmed."

Another mystery: "Something mysterious is blinking near the center of our galaxy".

Seems incredible, but I believe it.

". . .  new research reveals that studies with replicated results tend to be cited less often than studies which have failed to replicate."

One-hour video produced by the BBC on the inimitable Richard Feynman.

Related: Terrific two-minute clip of "Richard Feynman on Pseudoscience".

Links to four videos and a few other references by Melissa Dell, recent John Bates Clark medal winning economist.

"A neuroscientist explains how puppies trick your brain."

"Previous studies show that sperm carrying an X chromosome are better equipped to reach the egg under adverse conditions than sperm carrying the Y chromosome."

By Ross Kaminsky.

Throughout Unsettled, you’ll become unsettled at the brazenness of the lies and misdirection used by those who support the Green New Deal, carbon taxes, painting your roof white, eliminating meat from our diets, forcing you to ride a bike to work or, even worse, take public transportation, and on and on and on. Almost everything you’ve been told by the mainstream media, including by “scientists,” is either intentionally or unintentionally erroneous, leading politicians to support policies that not only won’t help us today but will cause tremendous damage to future American generations’ standard of living and economic opportunities.

By Rupert Darwall.

The APS climate debate was the turning point in Koonin’s thinking about climate change and consensus climate science (“The Science”). “I began by believing that we were in a race to save the planet from climate catastrophe,” Koonin writes in his new book, “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, And Why It Matters.” “I came away from the APS workshop not only surprised, but shaken by the realization that climate science was far less mature than I had supposed.” “Unsettled” is an authoritative primer on the science of climate change that lifts the lid on The Science and finds plenty that isn’t as it should be.