Ten Big Fat Lies About Fracking: Phelim McAleer 25 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am

THERE are three places in the US called Burning Springs, and there are historical records of people lighting their water since the 1600s. That’s according to Phelim McAleer who explains what he sees a...

Scientific Community Condemns Destruction of Golden Rice 13 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm

On 8th August 2013, vandals destroyed a Philippine government field trial of Golden Rice (GR). A petition organised by Dr Channapatna S. Prakash, a professor of plant molecular genetics, explains tha...

Open Thread 13 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. Richard P. Feynman Photograph of the kangaroo taken in the Central Murray Valley by Faye Ashwin [click o...

What Will Power Sydney in 5 Years, If Not Gas? 11 Aug 2013 | 04:44 am

I’VE been some what dismayed by the approach of many agriculturalists to the development of a coal seam gas (CSG) industry in New South Wales. There have been many widely publicized claims that the CS...

Colourless and Odourless Carbon Dioxide 8 Aug 2013 | 01:28 pm

Why the ETS will not Succeed: Peter Lang 6 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am

JUSTIFICATION for Australia’s carbon-pricing scheme assumes there will be a global carbon pricing system with our ETS a part of it. This assumption is probably wrong. It is unlikely a global carbon pr...

Carbon Credit Market is Neither Free nor Worth Anything: Jo Nova 4 Aug 2013 | 05:52 am

THERE  is an entire cannon of western philosophical thought, dating back to John Locke and John Stuart Mills, that explains why the prosperity of a nation is not so much linked to its natural wealth, ...

Open Thread 3 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am

“Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds, which follows from the advance of science.”  Charles Robert Darwin *** The image/picture is of a fellow pretending to...

Definitions of Science: Double Standards from Australian Government 1 Aug 2013 | 09:06 am

The Australian legal system ruled on the definition of science some years ago, however, the Australian government is now pursuing the Japanese and their whaling program on the basis of an all together...

Peer Review Falters at the Altar of Conviction 31 Jul 2013 | 11:46 am

IT is perhaps easier to build the Great Wall of China than to convince a global warming devotee to reconsider their mistaken faith. A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disag...