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Joseph Cirincione -- Five Myths About Iran's Nuclear Program - washingtonpost.com
"the prospects for developing a strategy with a solid chance of success improve if we dispose of five persistent myths about Iran's nuclear program: "
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | What happened to global warming?
"This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on? "
Will Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' Be A Game Changer? | Air America Media
Every time I see a new Michael Moore movie, America looks a little different to me. I feel an odd mixture of hopefulness, anger, and spiritual fatigue. I just saw Moore’s latest documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” this week and it's deja vu all over again.
Asking for it – Bad Science
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 4 July 2009
There’s nothing like science for giving that objective, white-coat flavoured legitimacy to your prejudices, so it must have been a great day for Telegraph readers when they came across the headline “Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists”. Ah, scientists. “Women who drink alcohol, wear short skirts and are outgoing are more likely to be raped, claim scientists at the University of Leicester.” Well there you go. Oddly, though, the title of the press release for the same research was “Promiscuous men more likely to rape”.
Normally we berate journalists for rewriting press releases. Had the Telegraph found some news?
Minister praises 'high standard' of science journalism - Press Gazette
The minister for science and innovation, Lord Drayson, has praised the high standard of science journalism at an industry conference.
Speaking at the World Conference of Science Journalists in London yesterday, Drayson defended the work of science and health correspondents in their coverage of issues such as swine flu.
He dismissed claims that science reporting only results in sensationalist and misleading headlines, and said journalists provided an important bridge between scientists and the public and helped people make informed choices about their lives.
Swine flu could infect 'one-third of world population' - Scotsman.com
SWINE flu is likely to spread around the world in the next few months and infect one-third of the global population, according to the first detailed analysis of the spread of the virus published by British scientists today.
Enjoy the rally while it lasts - but expect to take a sucker punch - Telegraph
Our delicious spring rally is nearing the limits. The 40pc rise on global bourses since March assumes that central banks have conjured away the debt overhang by slashing rates to zero and printing money. Nothing of the sort has occurred. Two thirds of the world economy will be in deflation by July.
Simon Jenkins: Any fool can raise a tax. But it takes a gutless one to splurge it on this stuff
The reason why the Stratford Olympics stands proud is that its cost is gigantic and devoid of any purpose beyond chauvinist bombast. Even that could have been won at a fraction of the price. The sum of £9bn is the entire yield of the new 50% marginal tax rate between now and 2012. As they sign their cheques to the Inland Revenue, the rich can reflect that in three years' time every penny taken from them will have vanished in the fireworks. Put another way, the extra revenue from petrol, drink and cigarettes between now and 2012 will barely cover the cost of the games.
The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice - Telegraph
A London employment tribunal has ruled that Tim Nicholson, right, was wrongly dismissed as a property firm’s “head of sustainability” because of his fervent commitment to “climate change”. Mr Nicholson had fallen out with his colleagues over his attempts to reduce the company’s “carbon footprint”. The tribunal chairman David Neath found the company guilty of discriminating against Mr Nicholson under the 2006 Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations, because his faith in global warming was a “philosophical belief”. Recalling how “eco-psychologists’’ at the University of the West of England are pressing for “climate denial” to be classified as a form of “mental disorder”, one doubts whether the same legal protection would be given to those who fail to share Mr Nicholson’s “philosophical belief”.
Charlie Brooker on the absurdity of calorie counting
Actually, why not just ban food? Step one: make owning a kitchen illegal. Step two: replace all supermarkets and cafes with trucks that rove the streets three times a day dispensing bite-sized meal-pellets. Make sure the trucks are controlled by a compute
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