Confused? You might BE a psychologist
Some scientists just keep looking in the wrong places for answers. Here’s Stephan Lewandowsky, professorial fellow of psychology, in The Age trying to answer the most important question in modern...
View ArticleHow not to do journalism
Watch the whitewash– so white it’s Green. The Peter Spencer story has finally broken into the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Two “journalists” paired up to put together almost identical stories as...
View ArticleInfantile professor pronounces debate “infantile”
The Age — formerly a decent newspaper — never fails to take an opportunity to parrot PR for Team AGW. Last week they gave a free shot to Will Steffen, Executive Director, ANU Climate Change Institute....
View ArticleGillards non-plan for the Climate
UPDATE: The more I think about this, the more sinister it seems. Gillard won’t put the policy on the table for all of us to debate, but she’ll get a quasi-mandate for an ETS by proxy. She’s playing...
View ArticleThe Age does award winning PR — oops was that meant to be science?
RE: “Sceptic: one inclined to doubt accepted opinions” by Michael Bachelard, The Sunday Age ———————————– For free, and just because I’m a nice person, I’m going to help Michael Bachelard with his...
View ArticleClimateGate II: Handy Guide to spot whitewash journalism – The top 10 excuses...
Sorting real journalists from sock puppets is not too tricky: real investigators tell you what the story is about; PR writers tell you what to think. Do they “discuss” ClimateGate emails … without...
View ArticleBob Carter wins the cartoon war :-) A very sweet win.
Thank you DeSmog! Without FakeGate we would not have had this cartoon. (Readership est 850,000) Cartoon by John Spooner. The Age. Source:The Age John Spooner: The Age Gallery Spooner: Nat.Lbrary...
View ArticleMuller-the-pretend-skeptic makes three claims. He’s half right on one.
Almost all the coverage of the Muller and BEST results confounds three different points, is poorly researched and mixes up cause and effect. Richard Muller is shamelessly promoting himself as something...
View ArticleDavid Evans in the Fairfax press: Climate change science is a load of hot air...
Today in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, for the first time, David Evans has been published in the Op-Ed section. Something is going on in those newsrooms…? This article, below, simply makes...
View ArticleThe Age columist says democracy, free press not the answer for climate damage
The Age, sometimes the free press is not enough… Gay Alcorn suggests when voters get it wrong (and you are but a powerless columnist on a major daily paper) the answer is not “explain your case”, or...
View ArticleAbbott needs to be more pro-science and cut funding to models that don’t work
Look out, Australia might trim a tiny slice from the Tithe to the Gods of Weather (protest coming) The Australian budget is in dire straits after the Rudd-Gillard years of promised surpluses but...
View ArticleSherwood’s devout unscientific faith in “climate change” and the hot spot
In The Age this week, Stephen Sherwood explains how misleading skeptics have been for repeating obvious, incontestable results from millions of weather balloons. See, all along, Sherwood knew the...
View ArticleWhat the hell was he thinking?
Looking for a great Christmas present idea? I’ve been enjoying the new glorious full-colour book covering the work and “why’s” of a great Australian cartoonist. There is still time to buy it for a...
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