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Scientific Fraud — Ammunition for Those Who Choose To Live in Denial

Between bad sci­ence, spe­cial inter­ests, bad jour­nal­ism, and a pub­lic that is often too accept­ing of what is pub­lished as fact with­out check­ing sources; many ideas become accepted as truths when in fact they are noth­ing more than, at best, … Con­tinue read­ing

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More Thoughts on American Healthcare Failures

I am becom­ing more and more dis­cour­aged about the cur­rent state and poten­tial for future improve­ment in the con­di­tion of the USA’s health­care sys­tem. At the cost of some­where between a decade and a half and two of my peak … Con­tinue read­ing

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You Won’t Get Burned At the Stake

Not like you would have been in times past; at least in most parts of the world. Not for under­tak­ing sci­en­tific research that is not approved by the estab­lished pow­ers. Most sci­en­tific research requires spon­sor­ship. In today’s world, only a … Con­tinue read­ing

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UK Science: Does It Have a Future?

We all knew this was com­ing, but the UK will pay the price for gen­er­a­tions to come. New Sci­en­tist is report­ing: So the axe has not fallen on British sci­ence — at least for now. Unveil­ing the UK coali­tion government’s long-awaited … Con­tinue read­ing

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So Doctorate What

When you work in a tech­ni­cal indus­try, there is often a pre­mium placed upon advanced degrees in a tech­ni­cal field of study. Being some­one upon whom a doc­tor­ate in the­o­ret­i­cal stud­ies of a phys­i­cal sci­ence has been con­ferred, I have … Con­tinue read­ing

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What Goes On In a Marriage?

Recently The New York Times pub­lished an arti­cle writ­ten by Tara Parker-Pope that makes many points that some may find sur­pris­ing about long-term mar­riages. Many of the key points of the arti­cle are quoted below. The truth is that most … Con­tinue read­ing

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Pesticides — Worth the Risks?

One of the more widely reported news sto­ries today reports that a nation­wide study sug­gests that chil­dren exposed to higher lev­els of a type of pes­ti­cide found in trace amounts on com­mer­cially grown fruit and veg­eta­bles are more likely to … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Scientist’s Ego

Many, many years ago, I was what would be con­sid­ered a pure sci­en­tist. I worked at a major research uni­ver­sity doing research in the­o­ret­i­cal physics in a field so eso­teric that per­haps only a few thou­sand peo­ple around the world … Con­tinue read­ing

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