When I was at Cornell, I attended a lecture by Alan Guth on inflation. This is the theory that in the early universe gravity was repulsive before it became attractive. Sort of […]
Diversity Oaths In Physics Grants Becoming More Common
National Science Foundation: White Scientists Superior To Black & Asian Scientists
I, like you might be after you see it, was surprised after I saw that the National Science Foundation, the source for funding for the so-called hard sciences, came right out and […]
There Is No Climate Emergency: So Say Us All
I am one of the more than one thousand scientists and related professionals who signed the World Climate Declaration, an effort started by a friend of ours Marcel Crok and Guus Berkhout. […]
The Journals’ Sins Are The Editors’ Sins — Guest Post by Robert Yoho
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed. Mark Twain Corporate funding has made medical journals wealthy. When I trained 35 years ago, they were […]
Get Ready For Women Mathematicians To Win Many Awards!
Update 6 July. Ahem. As predicted below, a female has won the Field’s Medal. And not only a female. A Ukrainian female. “vibrancy” said a judge. “Viazovska, who is based at the […]
Yellen, Bankers Yellin’ ‘Bout $150 TRILLION To “Fix” Global Warming
After our government let us down with 9/11, some Congresscreature’s lobbyist had the bright idea that became the Patriot Act. Named, as all things must be these days, for the opposite of […]
The COVID Vaccine and the False Promises of Science — Guest Post by Robert Yoho
You have heard that Big Pharma, led by Pfizer, will deliver us from corona virus. There will of course be a vaccine, and it will of course be costly. Proof of its […]
New Effort To Fix Universities Just Dropped: If You Are A Colleague, Please Consider Signing
A group of scholars (of which I’m one) have begun a new effort to correct troubles of American universities. We call this “The Path to Prosperity”. We’re working on a separate website […]
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