edited by: Ted McLaughlin,
Texas Editor
The storm began with just four cryptic words. “A miracle has happened,” announced a contributor to Climate Audit, a website devoted to criticising the science of climate change.
“RC” [...]
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a [...]
Can this marriage be saved? The union of junk scientists, on the prowl for government handouts to pay for their computer games, and eager politicians sniffing an enormous new source of tax revenue was a match made in a dark alley. The always gullible mainstream [...]
Emails exposing East Anglia scientists as more Thuggish than NerdyIn early October, I covered a breaking story about evidence of corruption in the basic temperature records maintained by key scientific advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. Global warming "skeptics" had unearthed evidence that scientists at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at Britain's' [...]
Friend Philo is sinking his teeth into the growing Global Warming Scandal.
This jewel came to my attention coincident with the "leaked" emails. Aside: some very cute Finnish scientists on evidence. Call me easy, but any guy who whispers sweet nothings about tree rings and lake sediment in a [...]
We don’t know why we yawn.
Bored? Sleepy? Just woke up? Or is it a signal of arousal, that is, time for bed? Or a signal of relaxation, a sign to others that we feel safe and so they can feel safe?
Scientists don’t know, but are you yawning [...]
The Houston Chronicle columnist's latest is, "A murder mystery by the numbers."
This is a different kind of murder mystery.
For years, social scientists have tried to determine whether the death penalty has a deterrent effect. Put another way, does the death penalty save lives?
In 1967, sociologist Thorsten Sellin found no significant impact [...]
The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned.
The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, [...]
After the second suspicious death in a year at International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna, it’s a question that might need asking.There is no god and I am his prophet. [...] 
Scientists have discovered the secret behind Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile. They say it has to do with which cells in the eye’s retina pick up the image. Depending on the light, the distance, the angle, etc., sometimes these cells communicate first to the brain, sometimes [...]
