Posts about Junk Science as of July 18, 2009

Welcome to the July 17, 2009 edition of Bill’s online marketing carnival. The submissions are all in and we review each of them to only bring you useful online marketing tips.  There were many great submissions.  They covered a wide variety of topics.  Everything from SEO and affiliate marketing to general advice about how to run an online business.    Drop me a comment on this post and let me if these were useful! Tim presents Natural Link Building – What’s That?

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Environmental Protection Agency Suppresses Dissent and Opinion on Climate Change This is a reprint of an article from Friends of Science , July 5, 2009 Alan Carlin, a senior US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research analyst, prepared a report on the science of climate change as comments on the EPA’s endangerment analysis for greenhouse gases (GHG). This report was suppressed by EPA officials for political reasons.

A meme is any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. A meme is defined within memetic theory as a unit of cultural information, cultural evolution or diffusion that propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution. Multiple memes may propagate as cooperative groups called memeplexes (meme complexes).

Over the past few years, research has continued to prove the benefits of e-mail marketing for business: low costs, high conversion rates and detailed tracking are all notable features. But e-mail marketing is becoming much more than just a tool for spammers and e-businesses. Consumers are becoming increasingly savvy on the differences between spam and permission-based emails, and more and more of them are accepting permission-based e-mail marketing as a positive replacement for direct mail.

www.ThePaleoDiet.com Loren Cordain, Ph.D. Issue: # 2009 – 29/July 17, 2009 Hello! Welcome to The Paleo Diet Update , where we explore scientific findings that reveal the connections between diet and disease, specifically the more recent dietary changes that defy our evolutionary heritage. Over the course of the Paleolithic period that comprised almost all of human evolution, we evolved a specific genome that has only changed 0.01 percent during the past 10,000 years.

MUSIC NEWS - Alternative rockers They Might Be Giants have announced a September release ofa new kids CD and full length animated DVD, Here Comes Science. It’sthe follow-up to this years Grammy Award winning Best Children’s Album Here Come the 123s . The 2-disc set will be available as exclusives thru Amazon (on disc) and iTunes (digitally) on September 1, with a release everywhere else onSeptember 22via Idlewild/Disney Sound (order below thru MNN).

Let’s look now at identity theft methods. Dumpster Diving Imagine for a moment it’s that time of month we all detest – time to pay the bills. As you sort through the pile of mail on your desk you first throw out all of that junk mail that you receive from every store you have ever been to who has put you on their mailing list (you know – so that they can make you aware of upcoming sales and promotions etc).

It’s the biggest meeting ever so far from Earth. Crew members of the international space station greet space shuttle astronauts as they arrive after docking. Shortly before 4 p.m. ET Friday, the seven crew members of the Space Shuttle Endeavour opened a hatch and entered the international space station, where they greeted the six crew members who were already there with hugs. “It’s pretty exciting to have 13 crew members aboard the International Space Station,” said ISS Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut who is slated to return to Earth aboard the shuttle.

The preface to this second edition printing of “ The 120 Year Diet ” begins by discussing the historical and prevailing attitudes toward retarding the human aging process and extending lifespan. The author, Mr. Walford, uses a colorful description of once having to be interviewed on television directly following an appearance by a celebrity whose assertions regarding the spirit world were all taken at face value.

It’s a high statistic and a grim fact: nearly seventy percent of women have, or will have, to deal with cellulite on their bodies. This leaves many women wondering where cellulite comes from and whether or not anything can be done about it. The good news is that thanks to science, we now have a much better understanding of what cellulite is, and how we can dramatically reduce the appearance of it on our bodies. First things first. Cellulite is a fatty deposit build-up under the skin.

SGA Icons – I Heart SGA – casett.livejournal.com 07/18/2009 [47] Stargate Atlantis Icons [17] Joe Flanigan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

A very interesting piece about the ideological debate on economics, especially after the current financial crisis. Its a refresher in history of economic thought. —————————————————————————— Although the crisis has exposed bitter divisions among economists, it could still be good for economics. ROBERT LUCAS, one of the greatest macroeconomists of his generation, and his followers are “making ancient and basic analytical errors all over the place”.

Noah Hodgetts of Newton plans to attend climate change conference - Newton - Your Town - Boston.com With just a two-degree change in Celsius say scientists, Europeans will be dying of heatstroke and forests ravaged by fire. Stressed plants would begin to emit carbon rather than absorbing it. Largest Green-Power Program Stumbles - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com The nation’s largest green-power program has seen enrollment fall far short of expectations as its wind power prices have soared.

Jettison Salvage Was Here 17 July 2009 EventHorizon1984The topic of preserving the Apollo moon landing sites is brought up in the article “Is the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Flag Still Standing?“.Beth O’Leary who “created the NASA-funded project to make the Apollo 11 Landing site on the moon as a National Historic Landmark” notes:‘the possibility exists to locate humankind’s lunar leftovers precisely, assess their condition and most importantly decide then what and how to preserve this record for future

As someone who is partial to think about the human soul in preference to thinking about the human body, for whatever particular psychodynamic personality structures I have that might predispose my to prefer the human soul over the body, I thought this morning that it would be enjoyable to compose my a description of my attitudes toward the human body, which those who have a tendency to focus more on the body in preference to the human soul, will probably enjoy reading.

Via the Post-Dispatch , I see Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer is hoping to capitalize on his recent infamy with a request for campaign donations. For his own sake, I hope his campaign was able to target the request to only fellow small-minded persons, because this is the sort of blast email people actually read, and actually costs votes. Like any good Republican victimized by facts and critical analysis, Blaine finds honor in the attention paid to him and his moronic legislation.

SOS Forests : WOPR, 2008 Spotted Owl Recovery Plan Withdrawn Wildfire — Beneficial or Damaging? Beetle Epidemic Caused by Misguided Dogma of Extremists Cost-Plus-Loss Is the Correct Way to Evaluate Fire Damages Return Fire Lasting Bitterness Over the Poe Cabin Fire Montana State Forester: We need an integrated response to mountain pine beetle Wildlife and People : Studying Jaguars to Death New Revelations About Reintroduced Wolves USFWS Reinstates Great Lake Wolves As

The future according to BlaineOur new favorite member of Congress, Blaine Luetkemeyer, is  warning that “the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. . .receives millions of dollars a year in your taxes to promote a liberal agenda of taxing businesses and forcing us to ride bicycles to work.”The congressman also says the cap-and-trade bill in Congress will “impose a massive $3,000 per household per year energy tax on Missouri families, cost the 9th District thousands of jobs, and raise gas prices at the pump by up to 77 cents per gallon.”(Fact check: The Congressional Budget Office estimates that in 2020, the cap-and-trade bill would cost families $175 a year.

Over at Watt’s Up With That (WUWT) I have been commenting on how the NOAA-GISS temperature data set is all bass ackwards. I have been noting that scientifically and statistically the data sets used to claim warming are actually the use of thousands of uncalibrated, unmonitored sensors of different types (and therefore different performance and precision) from ground sensors to overwrite the satellite data which shows no significant warming in 3 decades.

As in bucks. Even the richest person hasn’t gotten there yet, that I know of. Okay, they are at fractions of a trillion with their growing billions. But, China has this large of a bucket of bucks (could we use such a bucket ?), reports the WSJ. We need to consider that it’s being shared mostly with a few (comparatively) there like anywhere. They have fat cats there (just like here) that got that way by influence, merit, or whatever.

Are your hormones out of balance? Does your life feel like a song played badly out of tune? If so, the problem may have to do with imbalances in your hormones, which are wreaking havoc on your body and mind. There is one hormone in particular I am going to focus on today, and it could be at the root of your problems.  I will share with you 12 tips you can start using immediately to begin rebalancing your hormones and bring your life back into tune.

In May, Wichita geophysicist Dennis Hedke traveled to Arlington, Virginia to deliver testimony at a public hearing conducted by the Environmental protection Agency, or EPA. Now Hedke has released the document that he delivered to the EPA. You can read it in its entirety at the end of this article. Here are some highlights. Regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, perhaps the main organization contributing to global warming alarmism, Hedke writes this: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as you know, actually has nothing whatsoever in place that would mimic actual “peer-reviewed” architecture.

In years past, we all used to browse through endless web pages, bookmark the ones we liked and then scroll down a long list trying to locate that “great site we found but cannot remember what it was about”. Sometimes, if we found a site that had a dancing hamster , we would bookmark and e-mail it to friends and relatives. In my district, there is always the one teacher who loves to send out a mass e-mail that is simply a link to a great site that he or she found.

Ted Williams exposes junk science behind Alaska’s predator control program: http://audubonmagazine.org/incite/incite0907.html # Trout on the Moon? No, but Big Picture posts images from Apollo 11 moon landing on 40th anniversary: http://tinyurl.com/kq4jlf # The boost the fly fishing industry *really* needs: “tourism bikini flashers” (we are not making this up) http://tinyurl.com/nnqcjq # Another step towards Klamath Dam Removal – Oregon bill signed by governor: http://tinyurl.com/lobl5n

Cellulosic ethanol pioneer Coskata was ranked #1 in the 2008-09 “Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy” “Honey, aw Sugar, Sugar, You are my candy girl, and you’ve got me wanting you.” The Archies, “Sugar, Sugar” From the 2008-09 “winter of our discontent” to 2009’s “Summer of Algae,” biofuels have made a remarkable journey in the past six months.

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live completely, 100% “off of the grid and are completely self sufficient” The house is built utilizing natures natural elements, in the shape of an octagon with 8ft wide arch doors on every wall to catch every angle of wind (typical 4 sided homes have half the chance as one with 8 sides. A circle being the most efficient design).

Pages: 1 2Special Instructions to Mail Order DealersPurchase of the complete 30 mini-report “Good Ideas” Program for $10.00 includes full reproductions rights for the copyrighted Program and Sales Circular. Notice: Reproduction rights are NOT included if this program is sold for less than $10.00. WARNING: Seller must provide Buyer with clear, sharp, legible copy of the Complete program and sales Circular.

Does compassion make evolutionary sense? Does happiness, for that matter? Tricycle editor James Shaheen interviews science writer Robert Wright on where natural selection and Buddhism meet—and don’t.http://www.tricycle.com/interview/darwin-and-buddha?page=0%2C0One of Buddhism’s central tenets is the illusory nature of self. How does that square with evolutionary theory? Well, commenting on the metaphysical status of the self is above my pay grade, and I’m not sure that a Darwinian perspective sheds much direct light on it.

“Out of the wreckage of a broken junk-bot, emerges unscathed, Cool Calm Pete. One third of the underground outfit Babbletron, Calm Pete is the one whose words come slower. The precision of slow flow may be lost on some, but to the big brain females out there, here comes trouble. His new album, Lost is going to ring bells like Bob James on the first four bars of “Mardi Gras.” - Def Jux Lost Filesize: 77mb Encoding: Variable Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Lost 3. The List 4. Cloudy 5.

Timothy Birdnow My brother is eternally at war with the premier newspaper (indeed, the only newspaper) in St. Louis-the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It is a journalistic criminal enterprise, and Brian has fought with the purveyors of astounding ignorance for decades. He recently e-mailed me an editorial they published criticizing Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer for calling Anthropogenic Global Warming “junk science” which, of course, it largely is.

The meltdown of modern economic theory.The Economisthas published on its last edition three articles on the impact of the crisis on economics as a science. The first article is a general view on the matter, the second has to do with macroeconomic debates and the third on the state of financial economics.I think that readers will find it interesting to read the reflection of The Economist’s writers on this issue.

As with health care, preventative car maintenance is the best thing you can do for those dependable vehicles that get you where you want to go everyday. With preventative car maintenance you might invest a little here and there, but in the end, you will always save yourself time, money and the aggravation that comes with ‘break-down’ surprises. Listed below are some additional reasons to get serious about preventative car care: Safety is the #1 reason to invest a little of your hard earned dough in preventative car maintenance.

I’ve been reading the rather excellent junk food science blog recently, and I’ve found it really interesting. The author shares some of the big research into obesity and nutrition. What’s really interesting is that many of the guidelines we hear on a regular basis seem to have no scientific credibility. And I don’t mean things that sound outlandish, like diets composed entirely of cranberries and algae smoothies, but really straightforward, everyone-believes this stuff.

While doing research on the history of make-up for an article I am writing for Today’s Vintage magazine, I stumbled upon this hysterical article published in the New York Times circa 1945 about the psychology of bag - what they contain and how you hold it says a lot about you. And if you think we carry a lot of junk today, warranting huge totes, follow the link at the end of the article to check out what was carried in 1945. You’d be surprised! The original copy of this article is from the NFAA archives.

By Debbie Schlussel As you may know, today is the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 mission to land men on the moon. (It’s also the 64th anniversary of the detonation of the first atomic bomb in the new Mexico desert.) It was the first manned landing on the moon and was commanded by Neil Armstrong and also manned by Buzz Aldrin, both of whom rightly continue to be American heroes to this day. They set foot from the Eagle onto the moon on July 20, 1969.

Wil Wheaton: Just one of the feeds you can follow without grinding your teeth. David Livingston/Getty Images   by Linda Holmes When NPR ran a piece a couple of weeks ago in which it was suggested that Twitter “tweets” (sorry, that word still gives me hives) should be punctuated and written in sentences, there was some suggestion from commenters that this was a rather bizarre notion, perhaps suggestive of OCD or “unacceptable prescriptivism.” It got me thinking about the fact that Twitter’s reputation for abbreviated “thx 2 U” messages doesn’t reflect my use of the service at all.

The Year in Short Fiction this was the last panel of the con, sunday afternoon at 2, and the audience was quite sparse. of course, this wasn’t so much about the conversation as it was to hear the panel give names of some of their favorite works over the past year. also, Neil Clarke was supposed to be on the panel but was absent, which was a let-down, but there were some very interesting nuggets here.

Dish Network recently released new programming packages called Turbo HD. These packages are all hi definition, leaving out all of the SD networks. Is this new satellite TV the right for your family? It all depends on what your looking for from your cable TV company. Some folks want every single channel that is available. They don’t care if 10 of them are shopping channels, or that five of the channels are public access. They just want all of the channels.

Introduction There are two ways to submit to magazine editors. One is to send the finished article without it being requested. This is referred to as an unsolicited manuscript. Most editors dislike reading lengthy manuscripts, and many magazines specify that they do not accept unsolicited manuscripts which, when received, are consigned to what’s called the ’slush pile’ and seldom get read. Another, more productive way, to submit to magazines is to send a query letter, in which you pitch your idea to the editor before actually writing the article.

Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd Age: 58 Gender: Male Astrological Sign: Scorpio Zodiac Year: Tiger Industry: Business Services Occupation: Consultant Location: Edmonton : Alberta : Canada About Me Author, consultant, imagineer – engaged in a wide range of activities around the world. Fun, imaginative, witty…and not at all expensive to hire! What’s the earliest you’ve gotten up to watch cartoons and what did you see? Its part of a promotion by my bank..

The Post-Dispatch just rips Blaine Luetkemeyer to pieces this morning .  As first reported on Fired Up! , Luetkemeyer wants to cut funding for the UN’s Climate Change science panel. But Blaine’s actually been embarrassing himself since the beginning of the cap-and-trade debate, and the Post-Dispatch editorial board has had enough. Last year’s global average temperature was the 10th warmest since 1850 . In fact, eight of the past 10 years, and 13 of the last 14, are among the warmest on record.

From the all too predictable luddites at ABC News : Apollo 11 Anniversary: Debate Continues ‘One Giant Leap’? Or a Waste of Money? Even Kennedy Was Lukewarm By NED POTTER July 16, 2009 — “Twelve, eleven, ten, nine…” It was July 16, 1969, and even now, 40 years after Apollo 11 left for the moon, the argument rages. “…three, two, one, zero, all engines running — liftoff, we have liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11, and –” “Why are we wasting billions of dollars on the space program?” ask many visitors to ABCNews.com and other Web sites.

Netflix streaming through NXE is probably one of the coolest things of all time. Okay that’s an exaggeration…but only slightly. It’s an awesome feature that has changed the way I watch movies and, with Netflix already established as a household name, one that I think has become a standard amenity for most gamers with a Live subscription. Of course the service is only as good as the movies on it. Fortunately the streaming feature is not just a cheap gimmick but while Netflix has supported it with an ever changing selection of quality content, there is still a whole lot of junk as well.

Letters to the Editor Open letter to the Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh Unsustainable growth may see the “coastline covered in concrete all the way from Victoria to the Queensland border”. Image greghardwick.com.au Dear Madam Premier, Recently I had a short and enjoyable holiday in Noosa but was dismayed to read in the local papers of the plans by the Minister for Infrastructure to “reform” planning approvals and the possibility of development in the ‘Wild Dog’ mountain region.

Depression Punk Pondered - mykeamend.com 07/16/2009 “There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” -Washington Irving Conversations between Bethalynne and I, regarding “Depression Punk” began about a year and a half ago - though until recently, I never really managed to consider these concept so seriously.

LOOSE Weight 300% Faster: Simple dietary secrets strike hard on real cause of weight gain and as a result start an automatic fat burning process that does not stop till every unwanted deposit of fat is burnt….. Depression Punk Pondered - mykeamend.com 07/16/2009 “There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” -Washington Irving Conversations between Bethalynne and I, regarding “Depression Punk” began about a year and a half ago - though until recently, I never really managed to consider these concept so seriously.

Depression Punk Pondered - mykeamend.com 07/16/2009 “There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” -Washington Irving Conversations between Bethalynne and I, regarding “Depression Punk” began about a year and a half ago - though until recently, I never really managed to consider these concept so seriously. Such conversations were typicall

Depression Punk Pondered - mykeamend.com 07/16/2009 “There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” -Washington Irving Conversations between Bethalynne and I, regarding “Depression Punk” began about a year and a half ago - though until recently, I never really managed to consider these concept so seriously.

Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils ( Paperback ) By Marvin L. Lubenow 65 utilised and new from $1.90 Customer Rating: First tagged “fossil” by Aaron S. Freeman “afworm” Customer tags: junk science (5), lies (3), waste of money (3), creationism (2), rip off (2), bs (2), evolution (2), gullible (2), breathtaking inanity (2), apologetics , anthropology , anthropological (more…) Technorati Tags: