The Queensland Liberal-National Party (LNP) had its annual convention over the last few days and one of the motions passed urged a future LNP state government to establish a science…
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I don’t tend to read anything written by ignoramuses, except when dealing with people like creationists and climate change deniers. I read occasional creationist drivel because I like to use…
Almost a year ago, a scientific paper appeared in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences detailing the feedback cycles which it suggested were likely to kick in…
A taxonomist is a person who studies organisms in part to work out their relationships and the classificatory framework (i.e. their taxonomy) which explains those relationships. Creationists have little understanding…
Time and again, creationists have told me that ‘evolution is only a theory’. And so it is. The problem with this assertion is not with evolution, but creationists, and their…
To explain this properly, we need to do a bit of geology. The Permian Period is an interval of geological time which began 298.9 million years ago and ended 251.9…
Joanne Nova (birth name Joanne Codling) appeared on the three stooges’ (Rowan Dean, Rita Panahi, James Morrow) show on Sky News after dark1. Nova is a hard-core climate change denier…
Sky News, in the persons of Rowan Dean, Rita Panahi and James Morrow, had a guest on their show, whose name is David Burton and who was said to be…
Terry McCrann usually writes on business topics for Murdoch’s The Australian, but he has written a simply silly piece on carbon dioxide emissions, and to let you know where he…
In a puff piece by serial ‘ruperter’ Troy Bramston in support of Tony Abbott in his attempt to hold onto his Warringah seat, the first quote from Abbott is suspect….
