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Why You’re Fat and why it’s not bad

As a genus, humans, from Homo sapiens (that’s us) to our extinct ancestors Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus, are wanderers. Over the vast majority of our history, which spans hundreds of...

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Thinking about logical consequences

Thinking About the Unthinkable: An Israel-Iran Nuclear War The signing of a Munich-class agreement with Iran that hands it more than it ever hoped to pull off represents a shocking, craven American...

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Work stress and overtime causes strokes? Another Type A myth?

Originally posted on JunkScience.com: Their was at one time a big myth, supposedly proved by good “research” that Type A personalities get heart attacks, aggressive hard workers with short tempers get...

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Vegans eat water

Take collard greens. They are 90 percent water, which still sounds like a lot. But it means that, compared with lettuce, every pound of collard greens contains about twice as much stuff that isn’t...

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Germany and ‘renewables’ not a good match

Citing a recent estimate from a leading German economic think tank, the business daily Handelsblatt reported Monday that annual costs of 28 billion euros per year were being handed down to German...

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Psychology is not a science

The Reproducibility Project results have just been published in Science, a massive, collaborative, ‘Open Science’ attempt to replicate 100 psychology experiments published in leading psychology...

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UK solar power subsidies for home owners in death spiral

Petrossa:This isn’t a UK only development, all ‘early adapter nations’ are changing the system from subsidized to monetized. Logical consequence from short term policies. At a certain moment too many...

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FACT SHEET: EPA’s Claim That Its Coal Plant CO2 Rules Will Save Lives By...

Originally posted on JunkScience.com: You may submit this information to EPA by December 1, 2014 as a public comment. A PDF of this fact sheet is here. View original 1,073 more words

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Germany’s CO2 Targets “Unrealistic”

Petrossa:At least Germany is clear proof how this kind of powergeneration just doesn’t add up. Soon consumer energy prices will surpass those of Denmark which is no mean feat. Originally posted on NOT...

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Going Solar: System Requirements For 100% U.S. Solar Generated Utility...

Petrossa:Lot’s of letters but so very worthwhile Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: By: Tom D. Tamarkin & Barrie Lawson Over the next 50 years, utility companies in the United States must...

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Greenpeace: Employer from Hell

Originally posted on Big Picture News, Informed Analysis: Greenpeace canvassers say their workplace is no compassionate, supportive utopia. photo credit: http://tinyurl.com/pzcjxhm In addition to...

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Dr. Kendrick, LDL, And Meaningless Guidelines

Originally posted on JunkScience.com: Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, author of The Great Cholesterol Con, divides his time between practicing medicine and educational endeavors. Kendrick, based in Cheshire,...

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THE DEAD HORSE THEORY OF BUREAUCRACY

The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.   However, in...

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How feminism strangles itself

Study includes ‘remarks about physical appearance’ to trump up sexual violence numbers One of the best tactics so-called researchers have used to conclude that fully one-fifth of college women will be...

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Carbon Dating throws spanner in climate ‘science’

Many global warming studies may be wrong as carbon dating found to be highly unreliable for organic matter over 30,000 years old Radiocarbon dating, which is used to calculate the age of certain...

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The Sun Does Not Warm The Earth

The Sun does not warm the Earth. Something else does. The Sun just modulates that other flux. Source: The Sun Does Not Warm The Earth

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Federal researchers urge older adults to aim for absurd targets

As we age the tubing carrying the blood to our organs get less elastic, thus making it harder for them to accomodate to initial high pulse of the chamber conctraction. Instead of the arteries adapting...

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Iran ‘unexpectedly’ finds uranium.

Iran has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said on Saturday. The...

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100% Renewables Myth Destroyed

Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood...

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Polar Bears – Myths and Facts

Petrossa:Polar bears die eventually. Strange but true. Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood...

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