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  1. notes of systemic bias on Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed · · Score: 1

    Here are 3 videos, Mr. McIntyre's dissection of the hijinks of climate academics, given at the 4th Int'l Conference on Climate Change. 1/3, 2/3, 3/3 , merely academics' bias or more ?

  2. SLAPPed hard on Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does persistent presentation of flawed mathematical techniques, alteration of data, and highly selective selection aided by ad hominem, conspiracy (climategate emails) and initimidation count as a reasonable suspicion of fraud?

  3. iced... on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds like an excuse to bust out the extraordinarily high price cap. First shut down the coal plants, then free up prices. Newly minted fortunes. Thanks, Obama the careless.

  4. Re:bfd - US historical experience on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    RIght now, oil costs are extremely high even though gas is relatively cheap. In the more settled markets of the 1990s coal generated electricity costs at the lowest cost generators were in the range of 1 - 2 cents per KWh ($10 - $20 per MWh).

  5. cimetdine... on New Treatment Kills Metastatic Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    has been available to block e-selectin in people with colon cancer for 20+ years, available at Walmart etc for about 11 cents per day. E-selectin is what often makes colon cancer metastasize and recur. Funny, no advertisements on TV about it.

  6. €35.71/MWh from the generator is not exactly cheap by US experience.

  7. a triumph of.. on Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem · · Score: 1

    ...mathematics, but real fluids are compressible, viscous and varying properties. Let's see how far his approach extends and how closed the answers are. Fluid mechanics text book publishers will probably give him a few paragraph boxes or pages for history and theoretical stuff. Then back to the classic stuff.

    You can solve minor physics problems starting in their relavistic form, but most engineers still use Newtonian physics.

  8. adding up on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Figure adding oxidant stress and hallucinogens on top of self selection, combined with a reporting bias. Honest study would give us better information to choose exposures and risks as individuals. Drug prohibition was a failure, as is a welfare state.

  9. too many $ on Boeing Moving X-37B Operations To the Kennedy Space Center · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...presumably it is too expensive to do long term physical operations in the People's Republic of Kalifornia as well as favoring different orbital paths.

  10. setting the record straight on Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings · · Score: 1

    "In recent years, the increase in near-surface global annual mean temperatures has emerged as considerably smaller than many had expected. We investigate whether this can be explained by contemporary climate change scenarios. In contrast to earlier analyses for a ten-year period that indicated consistency between models and observations at the 5% confidence level, we find that the continued warming stagnation over fifteen years, from 1998 -2012, is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2% confidence level. "

    Can climate models explain the recent stagnation in global warming?

    Hans von Storch, Armineh Barkhordarian, Klaus Hasselmannand Eduardo Zorita Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany(2) Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

  11. oh, ummmm, not so bad.... on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    ... thought we might see some world class, monumental stupidity, like burning flutes from 2000 - 6000 BC.

  12. Re:All or nothing on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    No picking and choosing what procedures or medications fit your chosen lifestyle.
    So many wind up subsidizing those with the most egregious and dangerous vice ridden lifestyles, as well as those that are anathema.

    Freedom is simply incompatible with some parts of this ACA.

  13. poor car insurance on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    The current ACA has serious problems, although some parts are improvements. The mandate has a lot of problems. For some in my family, ACA+FDA would be a literal killer.

  14. Re:All or nothing on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    For many nothing and losing all. It is not hard to predict that there will be more uninsured or on Medicaid in April, 2014 than September 2013,

    I've dealt with several end of life situations. I can only see cost, frustration,and misery being added by Obamacare in those situations. Although many may benefit by Obamacare, witness hookers, HIV+, uninsurable obesity related conditions, many will not benefit from it either. Others will actively be violated or suffer under Obamacare, such as those in disagreement over standard treatment vs advanced unapproved treatments.

  15. 1st and 2nd amendments on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 2

    This is the very essence that said democratic process may vote unconstitutional laws, and be struck down by federal courts. Obamacare has many challenges ahead, some judicial in nature.

  16. Re:next time... on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 1

    That's right, Brazil will be an enabler with an expanding submarine force. They'll likely be part of the coalition next time. Argentina, "claims", Brazil, major hardware, no telling who else will add what. South America may gang up on UK post pax Americana

  17. next time... on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 0

    ...Brazil and Argentina will keep the Malvinas. UK is moving to 2nd and 3rd world status at warp speed and could not repeat the performance of the 80s. Glad I am not a Falklander, they are just SOL.

  18. re:small potato on Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings · · Score: 1

    They are wrong about a lot of things. One of the most important aspects of science and integrity is realizing and admitting when a model is busted. After 15-20 years, the GW temperature predictions are rapidly falling out of the 95% interval, even at solar max. You might do more reading of the critics and emergent models.

    Mostly the GW "cognoscenti" have withheld physical evidence and records (see ClimateAudit), fudged data (increasingly funky "adjustments"), done poor stats, ignored critics, shepherded reviews, and engaged in wholesale ad hominem, with enforcers like the Piltdown Mann. And many, like Algore have made fraudlent fortunes - fun and profit.

  19. Re:small potato on Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings · · Score: 0

    Actually I would classify as a climate heretic. 20 years is a blink in time, the Soviet fraud lasted 75 years. Geophysical reality is getting ready to run over this CAGW scam like a bug on the road when things really start to chill out ca 2020.

  20. engineering reality on Australian Icebreaker Tries To Get Through To Stranded Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 2, Funny

    A boatload of CAGW scientists can't engineer their way out of the ice in the middle of the summer in the Academik. An extra half a million square miles of ice that's not supposed to be there. Stuck about 3500 miles south of Darwin. Awards all around.

  21. small potato on Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...in conmparison to the climate frauds in research, 1990-2010. Billions mishandled, shopping for trillions and power.

  22. expediency on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1

    Another judge drops their britches to expediency over the Constitution and the Founders. In a continuing assault on rights, one wonders how long before Americans start appeals to the ultimate Appeals Court of Messrs Colt, Smith and Wesson. Living in a big brother dictatorship is not going to be fun.

  23. inspecting an unfinished POS on How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Imagine being the QA inspector on a 1985 Jugo car. No matter what you say, the entire thing is a POS. The only question is whether you need your paycheck that badly. Politics and unrestrained corruption simply don't mix well with code.

  24. Re:expensive (whole) cloth on Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data · · Score: 1

    Lonnie Thomson's missing ice core data, unarchived for 20+ yrs comes to mind, among many. Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, it's a religion. The smart money is thinking more about the probable cold years after 2018.

  25. expensive (whole) cloth on Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The global warming "data" appears to have disappeared even faster - often never available.