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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXX–She Blinded Me With Science, and More on the ‘Clean’ Energy Debate…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXX She Blinded Me With Science, and More on the ‘Clean’ Energy Debate… For whatever reason, I just can’t seem to help myself… The most relevant issue for the first part of this Contemplation is a loose definition and lack of agreement at the outset on what all of us involved […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIX–Are We Being Duped Regarding Global Warming?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIX August 17, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Are We Being Duped Regarding Global Warming? Today’s contemplation was prompted by an email my mum sent me. As she closes in on 80, I find that she’s becoming a bit more open-minded about things but remains somewhat of a skeptic when it […]
After Russiagate, Why WOULDN’T People Be Skeptical About Covid?
After Russiagate, Why WOULDN’T People Be Skeptical About Covid? Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ You hardly ever hear about Russiagate anymore. The last time it made a blip in the radar was when disgraced Collusion author Luke Harding published a very thinly-sourced story in The Guardian claiming to have proof that Donald Trump was a Kremlin asset, but […]
How The Question “Who Benefits From This?” Can Change Your Life
How The Question “Who Benefits From This?” Can Change Your Life “Cui bono?” is a phrase you’ll often see used on conspiracy-minded Youtube videos and discussion forums. It’s Latin for “Who benefits?”, and it refers to a perspective in legal analysis that the one who stands most to gain from a crime is often the perpetrator. […]
The Problem With Keynesian Economics
The Problem With Keynesian Economics In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes wrote: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to […]
Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works
Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works Errors in a recent ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay evidence for human-caused climate change. The study by researchers from the U.S., China, France and Germany concluded, “ocean warming […]
Be Skeptical Whenever The Political/Media Class Converges On A Single Narrative
Be Skeptical Whenever The Political/Media Class Converges On A Single Narrative The Trump administration has ended its weeks-long silence on the disappearance of the Saudi Arabian Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Following a briefing from Secretary of State Pompeo who has just returned from a visit to Riyadh and Ankara, the president has said that […]
Peak Oil: We All Do This, But…. Pt 1
Peak Oil: We All Do This, But…. Pt 1 Confirmation bias is the tendency of individuals to pay attention to or believe information that confirms the personal values and beliefs they already hold, rather than allowing their beliefs to be changed by new information. It’s a powerful force that many researchers have suggested plays a […]
How the Media Shapes Public Response to Climate Change
How the Media Shapes Public Response to Climate Change Climate change stories that give local information and emphasize positive achievements are more likely to encourage people to become active participants in climate change action than stories of political failures, a newstudy by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has found . Researchers worked with focus groups made […]
Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times — Explains Why ‘Paper of Record’ Is Pure Propaganda
Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times — Explains Why ‘Paper of Record’ Is Pure Propaganda From Laos to the Middle East, a roundup of Times stories that piqued the interest of the esteemed scholar. A front-page article is devoted to a flawed story about a campus rape in the journal Rolling Stone, exposed in […]
