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Weekly Mail
I receive regularly a lot of red hot tips from regular readers, but as the week goes on they are often buried by newer mail. Thus I will try out…
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Planet Earth Al Gore Explains ‘Snowmageddon’: Fox News Story
I was quoted by Gene Koprowski in his Fox News story "Planet Earth Al Gore Explains 'Snowmageddon'". (This accounted for the several hundred Google and other search engine redirects to…
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Faith In Climate Catastrophe
A recent article at Real Climate (linked from BoingBoing) informed its faithful that they, the writers and site leaders "Michael Tobis and Scott Mandia with input from Gavin Schmidt, Michael…
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Denis Dutton RIP? Arts & Letters Daily Too?
The shock to the loyal readers of Arts & Letters Daily must have been as great as mine, when I clicked and saw this (early Tuesday morning in Taipei, 28…
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Taipei Cabbies And Food
So we were in a cab and the driver waits to hear Where to? News Years street, we say. Why? the driver asks. To So and So's famous place for…
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In Praise Of Bad Jokes
"A bus filled with members of a carnival sideshow was found to have crashed through the guard rail, killing all occupants inside. Police are describing it as freak accident." That…
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Peer Review Fails? Sympathetic Priest? What’s Going On Here?
Duke Scores Another Own Goal According to Science, Duke University oncologist Anil Potti quit after being caught cheating: Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures in…
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Certain Oral Activities Linked To Intercourse Onset, New Research Suggests
I am thinking of changing the name of this blog to "New Research Suggests", for these three words begin most press releases announcing dubious "scientific" results. Whoever first thought of…