Re: Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense

2013-09-10 Thread Sam
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Vivec wrote: > > Over the last few days several news articles have emerged announcing that > Arctic sea ice is growing, not shrinking, and therefore the climate is not > warming but cooling. > Common sense would agree. More Ice means cooling, less ice warming. I

Re: Texas Conservatives Demand Science Textbooks Incorporate 'Creation Science Based On Biblical Principles'

2013-09-10 Thread Sam
Religious conservatives serving on state textbook review panels have criticized several proposed high school biology textbooks for not including arguments against Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Oh the horror! I guess the law of evolution doesn't have arguments against? BTW, Common Core is

Re: Elizabeth Loftus interview: False-memory research on eyewitnesses, child abuse recovered memories.

2013-09-10 Thread Larry C. Lyons
ha ha. In grad school we has a couple of people in the hypnosis lab doing research in this area. It is very creepy how relatively easy it was to implant false memories just by simply talking with the person. People in therapy situations are also very eager to please and they are very very good at

Elizabeth Loftus interview: False-memory research on eyewitnesses, child abuse recovered memories.

2013-09-10 Thread Larry C. Lyons
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/elizabeth_loftus_interview_false_memory_research_on_eyewitnesses_child_abuse.single.html cool interview. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http:/

Re: Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense

2013-09-10 Thread Vivec
Over the last few days several news articles have emerged announcing that Arctic sea ice is growing, not shrinking, and therefore the climate is not warming but cooling. This is not the result of scientific data disagreeing, this is simply poor journalism. Phil Plait

Texas Conservatives Demand Science Textbooks Incorporate 'Creation Science Based On Biblical Principles'

2013-09-10 Thread Larry C. Lyons
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/texas-conservatives-demand-science-textbooks-incorporate-creation-science-based-biblical-pri the lunatics are at it again. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com

Re: Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense

2013-09-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
wonder how long it will take before a link to wattsupwiththat.com is presented as a retort. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html > > > ~~~

Re: Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense

2013-09-10 Thread Sam
No need, it's Slate. Did you read it? He says these Jaw dropping claims may be misleading. Global warming religious nutters make me laugh. . On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > wonder how long it will take before a link to wattsupwiththa

Comrades glorious proposal for improvement of college football

2013-09-10 Thread Judah McAuley
Tired of the capitalist aggression that is the modern college football scene? The proletariate agrees and brings you Commie Football. http://www.commiefootball.com/manifesto/ "People’s Union of American College Football is creating much better system. Each team is playing best quality opponents

Re: Elizabeth Loftus interview: False-memory research on eyewitnesses, child abuse recovered memories.

2013-09-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
This is very close to my line of research. False-mammary research On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > > http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/elizabeth_loftus_interview_false_memory_research_on_eyewitnesses_child_abuse.single.html > > coo

Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense

2013-09-10 Thread Larry C. Lyons
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=h