Tag: politicized science

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON According to a new United Nations report, “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” This disturbing prediction (by no means...

Walter M. Weber, ACLJ The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) just filed a friend of the court brief in a civil tort case addressing the...

BY TOM DEWEESE The American beef industry has long been a tasty target of the environmentalists and their allies in the animal rights movement. To...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Mark Trumbull, Staff Reporter The Christian Science Monitor Boston, MA 02115 Dear Mr. Trumbull, Last month, in your introductory remarks to The Christian Science Monitor...

It's the enviro-fascists versus free speech and science BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON I wrote in my previous column that environmentalists are exploiting the climate-change issue to promote an...

Climate change isn't about the environment BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON I discussed in my previous column some of the scientific issues pertaining to the climate change...

BY TOM DEWEESE Sometimes if you fight hard enough and refuse to back down, no matter the odds, your truth is vindicated and prevails! For twenty...

~Why Big Green energy investors rely on the man-made global warming myth~ Tom D. Tamarkin Supposedly “green” or “renewable” energy has become a trillion-dollar-plus annual industry...

PATRICK J. MICHAELS & PAUL C. "CHIP" KNAPPENBERGER, CATO INSTITUTE This week, we have two notable items of interest. First and foremost, a must-read article from...

In Most Recent Climate Change Scuffle PAUL C. "CHIP" KNAPPENBERGER, CATO INSTITUTE Global Science Report is a feature from the Center for the Study of...

DAVID FRENCH, ACLJ Earlier this week, I posted about Dr. James Enstrom’s successful settlement of his lawsuit against UCLA. Long a dissenter against environmentalist scare-mongering,...

PATRICK J. MICHAELS & PAUL C. "CHIP" KNAPPENBERGER, CATO INSTITUTE Over the next couple of days, as the Nor’easter honing in on the New England...

WALTER OLSON, CATO INSTITUTE Rumors of ethics problems have long swirled around long-time New York assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, many of them connected with his...

PATRICK J. MICHAELS & PAUL C. "CHIP" KNAPPENBERGER,  CATO INSTITUTE A lot of buzz around the web was generated late this week with the announcement...

DAVID FRENCH, ACLJ Among the many virtues of aggressive litigation — in addition, of course, to the fundamental goal of obtaining justice for your clients...

It seems scientism passes for science these days STEWART DOMPE, ADAM C. SMITH, THE FREEMAN There are rarely any happy prophets. To get headlines you have...

MARK W. HENDRICKSON For over 20 years, a number of politicians have sought to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and/or raise taxes on such...

BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY While President Obama and Speaker John Boehner are wrestling with whether or not they will agree to raise taxes, United Nations delegates...

BY CHRIS CLANCY Last weekend, yet another hugely expensive “climate change” conference was held in Doha, Qatar. Almost predictably, it came to an end in...

CORRUPTION CHRONICLES More than three years—and no doubt a chunk of change—later, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is quietly shutting down its insignificant center dedicated...

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III With some misgivings, I’ve decided to renew my membership in the American Sociological Association and attend this year’s meeting. I...

JON E. DOUGHERTY, NEWSROOM AMERICA Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming to be a "national security" threat in a speech to an environmentalist group...

BY ALAN CARUBA According to Wikipedia, “A typical species becomes extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance although some species, called living fossils...

BY ALAN CARUBA According to Wikipedia, “A typical species becomes extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance although some species, called living fossils...

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III Immediately after Congress passed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, I saw colleagues in the university forming research...

POLITICIZED 'SCIENCE,' CORRUPTION CHRONICLES Less than a year after the U.S. government warned about global warming’s threat to the world’s food supply, a separate taxpayer-funded...

BY ALAN CARUBA I came of age in the 1950s during a period when Joe McCarthy was raising hell about communists in the federal government....

BY ALAN CARUBA Having written a series, “The BPA File”, in which I detailed the vast efforts made worldwide to ban bisphenol-A, a chemical in...

By Alan Caruba On February 16, I published “Anatomy of a Global Warming Hoax” concerning the theft of the private records of The Heartland Institute’s...

BY ALAN CARUBA Full disclosure: Years ago I received a small stipend from The Heartland Institute to help cover the costs of writing articles regarding...