January 10, 2008 – William M. Briggs

Congress Probes Celebrity Drug Ad Endorsements

The sub-headline over at ABCNews.com is "Lawmakers Concerned That 'Dr.' Jarvik Lipitor Ads May Be Misleading Viewers." A kindly "doctor," Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart, tells viewers about…

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U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Skeptical Climate Scientists

The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works has released an addendum to its list of 400-plus scientists who express some level of skepticism about man-made global warming. I…

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Hurricane paper featured on AIR-Worldwide

Roger Pielke, Jr., who's at the University of Colorado Center for Science Technology Policy Research, has written a year-end summary of the 2007 hurricane season. The summary appears in two…

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> It is a characteristic of the breed—on average: we speak in generalities here—that in any argument women do not…
Briggs on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025
Spetzer, All good points. I go into many of them later in the chapter.
spetzer86 on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025
If the receiver and sender independently wrote down the guess / card with no verbal communication, it might be better.…