Daily Archives: August 27, 2012

Originally posted on suyts space:
  Even before the election, there’s was a huge discussion about tax fairness.  The presidential campaign hasn’t done anything but amplify the discussion. As many people have noted, Romney pays only about 13% in taxes. …

Originally posted on Real Science:
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Originally posted on JunkScience.com:
A new paper by Garud et al (Social Studies of Science, forthcoming) reviews Climategate and analyses some of the sociology involved. The authors conclude that while climatologists – or at least the Hockey Team – were seeking…

Originally posted on JunkScience.com:
AUSTRALIAN children should be weighed and measured regularly at school to tackle childhood obesity, experts say. Researchers from Deakin University’s World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention said efforts to address the public health…

Originally posted on JunkScience.com:
Levies infringe on U.S. rights, supporters say National Republican party officials on Wednesday put their party officially on record opposing United Nations‘ attempts, some backed by Democrats in Congress, to assess a special tax on…

” averaging anomaly data from dramaticaly different temperature ranges provides a meaningless result.” Watts Up With That? Anomalies are unsuitable measure of global temperature trends Guest post by David M. Hoffer An anomaly is simply a value that is arrived … Continue reading →

Originally posted on JunkScience.com:
I must say this is my favourite story of the day. The climate scientist Michael Mann is threatening to sue Mark Steyn and the National Review for libel. Mann has every right to use the…