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Stemedica Cell Technologies: More stem cell hard sell, courtesy of the people who brought you Penta Water woo

I first became more interested in dubious stem cell clinics nearly two years ago, when I learned that hockey legend Gordie Howe was undergoing stem cell therapy in Mexico to treat his stroke. Being from Detroit, I imbibed the hockey madness of this town growing up, and know that Detroiters hold Gordie Howe in incredibly high esteem. Prominent in stories about Howe were two companies: Stemedica Cell Technologies, a San Diego company marketing stem cell treatments for all manner of ailments, and Novastem a partner company in Mexico that uses Stemedica products. Also prominent in the stories was…

Another week of GW News, October 3, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Sipping from the internet firehose...October 3, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, Tianjin, Right Livelihood, Loopholes, IUCN, Royal Society, Collisions, Pakistan Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, IP Rentiers, Bin Laden, No Pressure, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Corps, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…

Another Week of GW News, September 21, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) September 21, 2008 Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics, Permafrost, CO2 Uptake, Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis, Abrupt Climate Change, Tutorials Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, Temperatures, Ozone, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto…

AWoGWNews Part Two - Bali Blather, December 16, 2007

This posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news Bali Blather supplement (skip to bottom) The Deal Reactions Rollback? Day-by-Day Shameless Self Promotion .sig The Deal2007/12/15: UNFCCC: Decisions adopted by COP 13 and CMP 32007/12/15: Google:AP: A Look at the Bali Climate Change Plan2007/12/15: EnviroMedia: Big Surprise Ending in Bali: US Agrees to "Action Plan" [advance unedited version: UNFCCC Decision -/CP.13]Reactions2007/12/16: DotEarth: Voices on Bali, and Beyond2007/12/15: Stoat: Bali round up2007/12/16: Times(UK…

When burning woo produces deceptive testimonials

PZ's muscling in on my territory. Apparently, ruling the Darwinian, creationist-destroying atheist cephalopod blogging world isn't enough, and he has to start moving in on medicine. No problem, given that this time around he brought some rather interesting woo to my attention, suggesting it as perhaps a suitable topic for Your Friday Dose of Woo called God's Answer to Cancer. Besides, it's PZ's birthday; so as a birthday present, instead of reposting the same silly picture that I have for the last two years, I'll simply link to him now and add, oh, perhaps 1% to his traffic total for today…

Another Week of GW News, December 7, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) December 7, 2008 Top Stories:Poznan, Recession, UN Atlas, Methane, Nahcolite, IEA WEO. THC, ICE, Melting Arctic, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Venice Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings,…

Another Week of GW News, December 2, 2007

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) Top Stories, Bali Anticipation, Bali Communique McKinsey & Co., UNDP Human Development Report, Scenarios, Oxfam, SPM Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, la Nina, Glaciers, WAIS, Satellites, LIMA Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel Mitigation, Transportation, Housing, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science, POGO, Hansen, Eric Steig…

Another week of GW News, December 6, 2009

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I ho8pe you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News December 6, 2009 Chuckle, Copenhagen, CPRS, SCAR, Ocean CO2, 4 Degrees, Naughties, CRU Inquiry, Other Hacks, CRU Hack Bottom Line, Tim Garrett, Lancet, Copenhagen Diagnosis Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, GHG Pledges, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols,…

No, redefining cancer doesn't mean death panels

Blogging is a rather immediate endeavor. Over the last nine years (nearly), I've lost track of how many times I saw something that I wanted to blog about but but by the time I got around to it was no longer topical. Usually what happens is that my Dug the Dog tendencies take over, as I'm distracted by yet another squirrel, although sometimes there are just too many targets topics and too little time. Fortunately, however, sometimes the issue is resurrected, sometimes in a really dumb way, such that I have an excuse to correct my previous oversight. This is just such a time, and the manner in…

Natural selection fails with Man - W. R. Greg

In the Descent of Man, Darwin cites a paper published about 5 years earlier by W. R. Greg, which argues that natural selection is not active among humans (or, as the convention had it then, "Man"). It is most interesting that he does, because Greg is the intellectual father of all those who think that civilisation, and in particular medicine and poverty relief, leads to a degradation of health and virtue. In short, Greg is the father of social "Darwinism". What is Darwin's response? First he spends a dozen or so pages showing that in fact civilised human beings are still subjected to (…

Another Week of GW News, July 22, 2012

skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Sipping from the Internet Firehose...July 22, 2012 Chuckles, COP18+, Iron, Penguins, Yes Men, Status, Hilfiker, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Petermann, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Jet Streams,…

Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, June 29, 2014

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose...June 29, 2014 Chuckles, Snark, UNEA, Risky Business, Neonicotinoids, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, Thermodynamics, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Forecasts, New Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols…

Japan Nuclear Disaster: Update # 36: Sushi Recommendations

One of the interesting items we have this week is a study by Greenpeace in which various organisms from the sea near Fukushima were sampled for radioactive isotopes. Let's take a closer look. The data in the table provided (see the first item in Ana's feed for the link) show the amount of radiation (radioactive decay) by isotope type per kilogram of plant or animal tissue from various samples. On the higher end is a fish with 357 bq/kg of radiation and some seaweed with 190 bk/kg. What does this mean? Hard to say. I can tell you this: A normal human has about 4,000 or more bq (in total…

Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, February 16, 2014

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose... February 16, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, London Declaration, AAAS, England, Energiewende Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cr*p Detector, Cook Fukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Antarctica Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Extreme Weather, New Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes, Temperatures…

Another Week of GW News, June 23, 2013

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Mid-Summer's Day Edition June 23, 2013 Chuckles, Solstice, COP19+, Post-G8, UK Meeting, Indian Monsoon Sumatran Smog, European Flood, World Bank, Cook Fukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Arctic Birds, Methane, Antarctica Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather, Temperatures GHGs, Aerosols, Clouds,…

Lysenko Gets A D-Minus On My Genetics Test

I wrote this post on February 27, 2005. Provocative? You decide.... I am happy, along with at least half of the blogosphere, that Billmon is back. One of his recent posts caught my eye, as it was comparing current treatment of science by the Bush Administration to the treatment of science by the Stalin Administration back in the early days of the USSR, notably Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. The US scientists today are very unhappy about this state of things and are pondering ways to fightback (hat tip: Chris Mooney) I looked around the Internets to see what is there about Lysenko and I found a…

Another week of GW News, May 30, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the internet firehose...May 30, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, Oslo, IPBES, How do we know?, Reforestation, Science-Beliefs, Oily Excuses Bottom Line, Subsidies, Royal Society, Post CRU, Late Comments Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…

Another week of GW News, July 18, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information overload is pattern recognitionJuly 18, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, UN CFG, Nepal, MEF, Long Term GHGs, Diffenbaugh, Emmert, Psyche, Anderegg Bottom Line, Subsidies, IEA-UNEP, 446 Questions, Nastiness, Abuse, Media Complicity, Post CRU, Pepsigate Melting Arctic, Jakobshavn Isbrae Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, IP Issues…

Another week of GW News, November 8, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I ho8pe you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information overload is pattern recognition November 8, 2009 Chuckle, Copenhagen, Barcelona, G20, EU-US Meeting, Rudd, SuperFree, Dogs, Bottom Line, Desertec Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests…

Another Week of Global Warming News, March 23, 2014

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionEquinox EditionMarch 23, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, WWD, WWK, WG2 Leak, Triage, Warnings, CSLDF, Energiewende, CookFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Svalbard, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Forecasts, New Weather GHGs, Aerosols, Feedbacks, ENSO, Temperatures Paleoclimate, Attribution, Oceans…

And yet another political roundup...

Don't Think of a Maverick! Could the Obama Campaign Be Improved?: In 1980, Richard Wirthlin -- Ronald Reagan's chief strategist -- made a fateful discovery. In his first poll he discovered that most people didn't like Reagan's positions on the issues, but nevertheless wanted to vote for Reagan. The reason, he figured out, is that voters vote for president not primarily on the issues, but on five other factors -- "character" factors: Values; Authenticity; Communication and connection; Trust; and Identity. In the Reagan-Carter and Reagan-Mondale debates, Mondale and Carter were ahead on the…

The return of the revenge of a "more fluid concept of evidence"

Dr. David Katz is undoubtedly a heavy hitter in the brave new world of "integrative medicine," a specialty that seeks to "integrate" pseudoscience with science, nonsense, with sense, and quackery with real medicine. In fairness, that's not the way physicians like Dr. Katz see it. Rather, they see it as "integrating" the "best of both worlds" to the benefit of patients. However, as we've documented extensively here, on our personal blogs, and even in the biomedical literature (plug, plug), what "integrative" medicine means in practice is indeed what I characterized, the infiltration of woo…

Vincent DeVita: We need more freedom to be mavericks. Orac: Not so much

One of my favorite television shows right now is The Knick, as I described before in a post about medical history. To give you an idea of how much I'm into The Knick, I'll tell you that I signed up for Cinemax for three months just for that one show. (After its second season finale airs next Friday, I'll drop Cinemax until next fall.) The reason why I'm bringing up The Knick (besides I love the show and need to bring it up at least once a year) is because an article by Malcolm Gladwell published earlier this week in The New Yorker entitled Tough Medicine, which is a commentary based on a new…

Another Week of GW News, December 9, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week of Anthropocene Antics Sipping from the Internet Firehose... December 9, 2012 Chuckles, COP19+, Doha: Results, Reactions, Process, Kyoto, Finance, Dailies, Irony AGU, Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, Cook, Weathermen Fukushima Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, Arctic Report Card, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs.…

The Open Laboratory 2009 - Countdown: four more days!

Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays): Make sure that the submitted posts are possible (and relatively easy) to convert into print. Posts that rely too much on video, audio, color photographs, copyrighted images, or multitudes of links just won't do. 10 days of science: Astronomical…

The Open Laboratory 2009 - one of the very lastest calls for submission!

Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays): Make sure that the submitted posts are possible (and relatively easy) to convert into print. Posts that rely too much on video, audio, color photographs, copyrighted images, or multitudes of links just won't do. 10 days of science: Astronomical…

The Open Laboratory 2009 - the deadline is looming!

Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays): Make sure that the submitted posts are possible (and relatively easy) to convert into print. Posts that rely too much on video, audio, color photographs, copyrighted images, or multitudes of links just won't do. 10 days of science: Astronomical…

Another Week of GW News, December 25, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsDecember 25, 2011 Chuckles, Solstice, COP17, Horn of Africa, Retrospectives GFIs, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riots, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Temperatures, Paleoclimate…

Another Week of GW News, July 12, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News July 12, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:G8, MEF, Oxfam, Greenland Group, Carbon Tariffs, Biodiesel Tariffs, Princeton Plan Melting Arctic, Antarctica, Tropical Zone Expanding, Pew Survey, 2009 State of the Future Report, Aerosols, Sol Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels,…

Another Week of GW News, May 20, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsMay 20, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, Bonn, WWF, Elgin, Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols Paleoclimate…

The family of the Amish girl with cancer who needs chemotherapy flee the country and claim natural healing has "cured" her

A couple of weeks ago, I commented on the story of 10 year old Amish girl in northeast Ohio with cancer whose parents, alarmed by the side effects of chemotherapy, had decided to stop the chemotherapy and treat their daughter with folk medicine instead. As a result, alarmed at the likelihood that Sarah Hershberger would suffer and die unnecessarily at a young age, the hospital treating her, Akron Children's Hospital, went to court. It lost the first round, but earlier this month the original ruling was overturned, and it was ordered that Hershberger undergo chemotherapy to save her life. The…

Another Week of Climate Disruption News, July 21, 2013

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition July 21, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, International Tax, Antarctic Reserve, Pollution Mortality Bottom Line, Finance, Cook Fukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols, Paleoclimate Oceans,…

Another Week of GW News, January 4, 2009

Another Week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) January 4, 2009 Top Stories:Tennessee Coal Sludge, YD Impact Theory, Hansen Letter, Year End Roundups Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics, Antarctica, Contrails, Particulates, Abrupt Climate Change Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Glaciers, Sea Levels Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wacky Weather,…

Japan Nuclear Disaster Update # 41: Good News - it's bad. Bad news - it's worse than we think

There is a lot of news in Ana's Feed about the nuclear power industry world wide, as well as across Japan, and especially disturbing news related to the Fukushima plant in particular. In brief, the main reason that the situation at these reactors seems to be kinda-sorta under control (as in the water in the plants has stopped boiling uncontrollably) is that much of the nuclear fuel has melted its way into the underlying geology, and/or all over the plant's foundation structures, and/or dispersed through groundwater that is moving through the system. Towards nearby rivers and/or the ocean…

Another week of GW News, February 28, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News February 21, 2010 Chuckles, Copenhagen, Nusa Dua, Blue Carbon, COP-16, China's Emissions, Bonn, WMO Meeting, iPhone App Bottom Line, Hamilton, McKibben, Gates, IPCC Review, CRU Inquiry Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Mertz Glacier Tongue Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures,…

Japan Nuclear Disaster Update # 43: why do we feel the need to be alarmist?

Because the situation is alarming. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about where the melted-down fuel at Fukushima I's reactors is resting. TEPCO and various NPA's have insisted all along that they know where it is, and everything is under control. The most recent information from TEPCO is that the fuel is contained in the containment vessel, but they won't be able to confirm that for ten years when it cools down enough to go have a look. Recent efforts to peek inside the rubble have been hampered. One attempt resulted in very blurry photographs ... apparently the high levels of…

Another week of GW News, September 26, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsSeptember 26, 2010 Chuckles, Equinox, COP16+, MDG, FAO, MEF, CGI Thompson, Big Picture, Pakistan, Subsidies, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Weapon, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols Ozone, Solar…

Japan Nuclear Disaster Update 25: Elderly could build cooling system; radiation release and exposure concerns; fuel storage tank may collapse.

It is possible that the bottom will fall out of the Fukushima Reactor 4 spent fuel tank. Efforts are being made to shore up the concrete structure. There is no longer any doubt that those mysterious holes hypothesized, seen or not see, in some of the reactor vessels are for real. It is now established that three of the reactors at Fukushima melted down within hours of the earthquake and tsunami. TEPCO is going back and forth on whether or not any of the main reactor machinery was damaged in the quake. It may be that the hydrogen explosions were preventable had standard procedures been…

No, DDT won't save us from the Zika virus

If there's one thing I've learned over the last decade-plus of blogging about medicine and alternative medicine, it's that any time there is an outbreak or pandemic of infectious disease, there will inevitably follow major conspiracy theories about it. It happened during the H1N1 pandemic in the 2009-2010 influenza season, the Ebola outbreak in late 2014, and the Disneyland measles outbreak last year, when cranks of many stripes claimed that either the outbreaks themselves were due to conspiracies (usually, but not limited to, conspiracies to promote the "depopulation" vaccination agenda of—…

Another Week in the Ecological Crisis, June 1, 2014

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJune 1, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, Post WGx, Kohout, Weber, Warnings, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Pricing Nature, Economics, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes, ENSO, Temperatures, Satellites Oceans,…

The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Medical "science" as dubious as it gets

Unfortunately, as we have been dreading for the last four months or so since her relapse was diagnosed, my mother-in-law passed away from breast cancer in hospice. She died peacefully, with my wife and the rest of her family at her side. As you might expect, I do not much feel like blogging, and even if I did my wife needs me more. Because I foresaw this coming, however, I do have a series of "Best of" reposts lined up. If you've been reading less than a year or two, they're new to you. If not, I hope you enjoy them again. I don't know when I'll be back, other than maybe a brief update or two…

Another Week of Global Warming News, June 16, 2013

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom June 16, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, Bonn, Xi-Obama, G8, IEA, EIA, Europe Flood, Cook Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather…

Wonks and Cranks

Which one are you? (December 25, 2005) -------------------------------------- Big debate over Wonkery and Activism on blogs is brewing around the biggies in the Left Blogistan. Let me rehash it quickly before starting my own rant. It all started with a Washington Monthly article titled Kos Call by Benjamin Wallace-Wells: "Moulitsas is just basically uninterested in the intellectual and philosophical debates that lie behind the daily political trench warfare. By his own admission, he just doesn't care about policy. -------------------- He doesn't pretend to be a policy wonk. But the more that…

A manual of spectacularly bad antivaccine arguments

To say that the relationship that antivaccine activists have with science and fact is a tenuous, twisted one is a major understatement. Despite mountains of science that says otherwise, antivaccinationists still cling to the three core tenets of their faith, namely that (1) vaccines are ineffective (or at least nowhere near as effective as health officials claim; (2) vaccines are dangerous, causing autism, autoimmune disease, neurodevelopmental disorders, diabetes, sudden infant death syndrome, and a syndrome that is misdiagnosed as shaken baby syndrome; and, of course, (3) the Truth (capital…

The road to alternative medicine apostasy

I've been blogging for over a decade now, a fact that I find really hard to believe looking back on it right now. I've told the story before, but it's worth briefly recounting again because doing so will explain why the story I'm about to discuss caught my attention. My "gateway drug," if you will, into skepticism was discovering Holocaust denial in the late 1990s on Usenet, a vast and sprawling conglomeration of thousands of discussion forums that began to fade away at the turn of the century with the rise of web-based forums and Google providing an interface to it to make it Google Groups.…

Another Week of GW News, September 27, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News September 27, 2009 Chuckle, Climate Week, UN Summit, G20, CGI, Copenhagen, Bangkok, UNCCD, Subsidies Bottom Line, Planetary Boundaries, IceSat, UNEP, Overshoot Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Ozone, Paleoclimate ENSO, Glaciers,…

What do used car salesmen and stem cell clinic "entrepreneurs" have in common?

Stem cells are magic. Stem cells cure everything. They are the next big thing in medicine. That's the narrative one frequently hears about stem cells in the press and courtesy of offshore stem cell clinics in places such as Italy and direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cells in the US. Of course, stem cells aren't mystical and magical, although they are very promising as a treatment for some degenerative conditions. As promising as they are, though, they don't cure everything. In fact, we don't even know for sure that they cure anything because for the vast majority of conditions for which…

Another week of GW News, January 16, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionJanuary 16, 2011 Chuckles, Cancun, Gillett, Winter, Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka Bottom Line, Ratcliffe - Kennedy, Earth Networks, Open Everything, Cook, Post CRU, Birds Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…

Another Week of GW News, August 14, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionAugust 14, 2011 Autobahn Chuckles, Horn of Africa, Monnett, NEON, Nigeria, North Sea, arXiv, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Kay et al., Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…

Another Week of GW News, October 16, 2011

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionOctober 16, 2011 Chuckles, OWS, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Carbon Bill, Drought Monsoon, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production…