The Australian's War on Science 44 part 2

As well as Monckton Media Watch also looked at the way Jamie Walker passed off his opinioin piece about the Great Barrier Reef as a straight news story. John Bruno dissects Walker's response.

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You'll recall that last week, Sam Walker told Radley Balko that Scalia had gotten his research considerably wrong in his opinion in Hudson v Michigan.
In yesterday's post on afterimages and aftereffects, I mentioned that demonstrations of neural adaptation for a particular feature (in the post, I used the examples of color and motion) is generally take
Almost three years ago, we conducted our first-ever Casual Fridays study, where we asked who says "hi" to you while you're outside exercising. The results confirmed my suspicions:
The results of the first Casual Friday survey are in, and I have to say, I'm impressed at the level of response. Greta mentioned to one of her colleagues that we had collected 213 responses in five days, and his eyes lit up with excitement.

Talking of a war on science. Originally posted at Tamino:

"M&M got at least one person affiliated with GOP to make a bogus request. Does the name Sarah Ferguson (and no I am not referring to the royal). She goes by SarahF at CA, do a search. How many more are/were there?

Also, this is definitely worth a read:

http://shewonk.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/trolls-drawing-and-quartering-a…

Rush Limbaugh calling for âevery scientist at every university in this country thatâs been involved in this be named and fired, drawn and quartered.â I had no idea until reading her post what he meant by that.

So he can incite people to torture and/or murder climate scientists someone with no consequences?! Come on, people have been sent to prison for less.

If we get through this without losing a climate scientist at the hands of a madman weâll be very lucky, and going by Limbaughâs call to violence I do not think that is an exaggeration.

Iâm shocked and disgusted."

By MapleLeaf (not verified) on 09 Feb 2010 #permalink