Posts about Junk Science as of September 21, 2009

If you spend any time with babies and kids, you will quickly learn that they can make fun out of anything. Babyzilla is no exception. With the exception of staple toys like books, colorful wooden blocks, a ball, and her stuffed puppy Franklin, no toy bought for her has captured her imagination or sense of fun like mundane household objects used by grown-ups. We’ve saved perhaps hundreds of dollars and untold natural resources by making her toys out of empty boxes and food containers, or by letting her play with common household items like wooden spoons, flashlights, potato mashers, pots and pans and—her favorite—measuring cups.

Column by Richard Becker Last week in Memorial Coliseum, environmental activist and attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued a clarion call to his audience to stand up and defend our environment from plunderers who would destroy it for profit. He possessed the detail of a lawyer delivering a closing argument, the poetry of a great orator, and the passion of an activist whose fate is intimately tied to the success or failure of his cause.

By Liesl Copland William Morris Endeavor exec Liesl Copland gave the keynote speech at Sunday’s Doc Conference at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. This is the speech that she delivered at the event. I’m Liesl Copland from William Morris Endeavor’s Global Finance & Distribution Group, and am honored to be here at the inaugural Toronto Film Festival Documentary Conference.  When Thom [Powers] asked me to come and talk to you about what I think about all day long – where, in this CHANGED world are the revenues going to come from for specialty feature films – I got a little nervous.

September 21st, 2009 Posted by Harry Fuller @ 2:09 pmCategories:UncategorizedTags:Global Warming, Harry FullerThat is, nothing is going to happen at the United Nations when world political leaders meet on climate change. Whether you see global warming as man-made, part of a natural cycle or junk “science,” there is little danger that anything will be done on an international scale. China has its plan. Obama will say something. The European Union will push for stricter emission controls.

That is, nothing is going to happen at the United Nations when world political leaders meet on climate change. Whether you see global warming as man-made, part of a natural cycle or junk “science,” there is little danger that anything will be done on an international scale. China has its plan. Obama will say something. The European Union will push for stricter emission controls. Everybody who can make the case will beg for money to help their nation cope.

Via [ Dan Wasserman ] Comment: Today I’ll just present a list of why we aren’t in a recovery and what our obstacles are to a recovery. These are reasons we are most likely in for a couple of decades of negative or no growth, along with an expectation of deflation and a market correction in the near term.

Disquiet Reservations September 21, 2009 This is a piece of futurist, speculative fiction, mixed in with the concerns and events of the present day. The real life personages in this piece are my great heroes. My admiration for their work is part of the reason for why I chose to write this. Okay, not all of them are my heroes. There is one name that doesn’t excite me when I hear it. (Hint: his name is Ben Bernanke). I have taken the liberty to use their names without permission, for what I perceive to be as artistic purposes.

Disquiet Reservations September 21, 2009 This is a piece of futurist, speculative fiction, mixed in with the concerns and events of the present day. The real life personages in this piece are my great heroes. My admiration for their work is part of the reason for why I chose to write this. Okay, not all of them are my heroes. There is one name that doesn’t excite me when I hear it. (Hint: his name is Ben Bernanke). I have taken the liberty to use their names without permission, for what I perceive to be as artistic purposes.

Disquiet Reservations September 21, 2009 This is a piece of futurist, speculative fiction, mixed in with the concerns and events of the present day. The real life personages in this piece are my great heroes. My admiration for their work is part of the reason for why I chose to write this. Okay, not all of them are my heroes. There is one name that doesn’t excite me when I hear it. (Hint: his name is Ben Bernanke). I have taken the liberty to use their names without permission, for what I perceive to be as artistic purposes.

While The American Medical Student Association basks in the glow of great media coverage of its report card on so-called conflicts of interests with industry it conducted with the Prescription Project, the association failed to disclose that the PP itself has a problem with disclosure: it gets some its cash from trial attorneys and settlements from shaking down drug companies in lawsuits that often are based on fearmongering and junk science.  Good know that the future doctors of America are

Here’s how tabloid medicine is produced.  Fail to study the history and science behind the issue.  Grab quotes from the zealots pushing lawsuits and the junk science behind it and take their position as somehow “equal” to the position of serious researchers whose position is undermined because they have consulted for “industry” and then you wind up with this from today’s AP article on the FDA’s decision to toss a bone to the anti-vaccine mob to open a comment period about how to characterize possible risks of mercury fillings: Science operates on “a precautionary principle,” said Dr.

Come on, everybody – sing along: It’s a jungle out there! ‘Cause after reading today’s news, you’ll have a deeper appreciation of the line Do you know what’s in the water that you drink? Well, I do – and it’s amazing! UK Ministry of Defense inquiry says, ‘ That (UFOs) exist is indisputable .’ UFO sightings in the UK have more than tripled this year.

BreakPoint | by Chuck Colson | Sep. 17, 2009If we can’t convince people to change their behavior to save the planet, maybe God can. Or so one atheist thinks. These are discouraging times for environmentalists. The momentum to adopt sweeping measures to combat man-made global warming has slowed, even ground to a halt in some places. Australia and New Zealand, for example, have rejected and repealed their attempts to reduce CO2 emissions.

What you missed this weekend:1. 35% of the uninsured don’t want Obamacare.2. Making the shoe bomber comfy in prison.3. Breitbart: Another acorn falls next week.4. Russia to modernize Cuba’s military.5. Chris Wallace: “The are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.” The You Tube video.6. Wolf Blitzer lost on “Jeopardy,” baby. OK, that was from Friday but it was late Friday.7.

Every Soul a Star is now available in paperback and I would like to call it to your attention – again. My apologies to those of you who read this review when it first posted, and to those of you who haven’t read it, I hope you are inspired to seek out this spectacular book!With her latest novel Every Soul a Star, Wendy Mass confirms that she is the young adult version of the literary novelist AS Byatt.

The USDA’S official food guide pyramid is misleading and incorrect. It gives the impression that only the foods groups in the pyramid are needed to achieve health but that is not true. My friend, Mike Adams from NaturalNews has developed an Honest Food Guide that is safe and accurate. This is the only guide that gives you an unbiased view, with no under the table corruption, of what you should eat and what you should avoid. As parents, we need to know the truth if we want our children to be healthy mentally, physically and emotionally.