by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 14, 2015 | Culture, Environment, Politics
David Harsanyi has a piece over at Reason that observes how the government often gets it wrong when putting forth health-related guidelines. Among others, the government got it wrong on cholesterol, saturated fat, salt, second-hand cigarette smoke, eating breakfast in...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 1, 2015 | Culture, Environment, Health, Politics
I came across an interesting observation on a political page yesterday. The commenter asked why it seemed that the people most certain that the science of global warming was settled and irrefutable were oftentimes vocally anti-vaccine and anti-GMO. At first blush, it...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 25, 2015 | Culture, Environment
Earlier today, an internet friend of an internet friend posted this comment: So they have a truth which is unalterable, it’s beneath them to debate with outsiders, they have texts full of dire prophecies I mean predictions that never seem to come true. They sell...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 11, 2015 | Environment
Another year without global warming has gone into the history books. Depending on who you read, the Earth has had no statistically significant warming in 18, 21 or 25 years. As we march along, unwarmed by our emissions, and as we experience the current blasts of cold...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 22, 2014 | Culture, Environment
A recent edition of the NY Post had an opinion piece wherein the author took to task some scolds who had issues with the message of the movie Interstellar. The basic plot of the movie (I haven’t seen it) is that the Earth is dying and astronauts are sent out to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 25, 2014 | Culture, Environment
The English physicist Freeman Dyson, one of the great minds of our time, gave an interview at Yale a few years back about his (skeptical) views on anthropogenic global warming. In that interview, he elucidated his belief that those in the climate community who have...
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