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  • Florida Wants to Suppress Facts That Contradict Evolution

    World Net Daily has a piece today about how the state of Florida aims to institute a science teaching standard that would teach evolution as fact and ignore facts that might contradict it.  Writes WND:

  • The Coming Global Cooling

    By Selwyn Duke When I was a lad in primary school, we were warned of climate change. It was a tad scary, too, as the prospect of becoming an ice sickle in a frozen wasteland wasn’t very appealing. Hey, we wanted to be able to go outside and sometimes play with balls not made out…

  • China Planning “Unrestricted War”?

    By Selwyn Duke There’s a very interesting writer named Lev Navrozov,  a quite cerebral fellow who treats some often neglected subjects.  One of them is the threat posed by China and its "post-nuclear super weapons," a danger most of us ignore, distracted as we are by more pressing concerns, such as racial profiling, electing socialists,…

  • More on the Climate Change Con

    By Selwyn Duke On the heels of what I just posted about global warming comes another piece on the subject.  Bill Hahn tells us of Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, a top climate scientist who fears that science will lose credibility once the public learns the truth about climate change.   Writes  Hahn:

  • Exposing the Global Warming Hoax

    By Selwyn Duke Agricultural journalist Jerry Carlson has written an excellent article about the global warming hoax.   He  points out that the truth about climate change — that it’s simply part of a natural cycle — may start to be reported by the mainstream media.  He writes:

  • The Mercury Danger of CFL Bulbs

    By Selwyn Duke World Net Daily had a startling story about the mercury danger posed by the new CFL light bulbs.  Those are the ones environmentalists are trying to ram down our throats through regulation.  It seems that if you break even just one in your home, you’re going to have to spend $2000 to…

  • When Good Science Collides with Bad Ideology

    By Selwyn Duke DNA technology has been an invaluable crime-fighting tool, allowing law enforcement to identify both the innocent and the guilty.  And since it has been so welcomed by authorities, molecular biologist Tony Frudakis had every reason to believe that his great advance in suspect identification — called "DNAWitness" — would be well received. …

  • Thoughts on the News, Silly and Serious – 11/25/07

    By Selwyn Duke "Radiation. Yes, indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year! They ought to have them, too." – Mad scientist in Repo Man.

  • The Danger of ADHD Drugs

    By Selwyn Duke Two articles have been posted in the news section about how ADHD drugs stunt growth and provide no long-term benefit.  I have long understood the folly of medicating kids for what is essentially bad behavior and have, in general, been opposed to the use of all mood-altering drugs.

  • When Bad Journalism Meets Bad Science

    By Selwyn Duke If you believe "evolutionary theorist" Oliver Curry, man will divide into two distinct species after approximately another 100,000 years.