Science Versus Scientism in Real Life: Where Do We Go from Here?
An engaging discussion of science-adjacent scintism, including Theranos. glysophate, Golden Rice, and rewilding.
Read more...An engaging discussion of science-adjacent scintism, including Theranos. glysophate, Golden Rice, and rewilding.
Read more...The financial press and Mr. Market shrugged off the Fitch downgrade of US government debt from AAA to AA+. Why?
Read more...MMT backer Richard Murphy and London finance organ City A.M. have surprisingly simliar views on the causes of inflation but differ on remedies
Read more...A measured but wide-ranging takedown on the movie Oppenheimer and the way it goes way too easy on too many matters nuclear.
Read more...Will coming energy crunch roll back women’s gains?
Read more...NATO is trying to extricte itself from Ukraine. But will the US play ball?
Read more...What might Russia do as Ukraine’s military weakens?
Read more...A look at population growth and energy consumption shows that there is no way the world will change behavior enough to stop worst outcomes
Read more...Putin has cleared his throat to warn against NATO/Poland incursions into Western Ukraine. But will this red line too be ignored?
Read more...Why trying to tackle trash with recycling is too little, too late.
Read more...How habitual and unnecessary nitrogen overdosing in American farms is making water pollution even worse than it “need” be.
Read more...Michael Hudson provides a deep dive on the US’ and now its Western allies’ obsessive campaign against China.
Read more...Diminutive nculear reactors are likely to be just as prone to delays and cost overruns as their behemoth predecessors.
Read more...Unless we figure out a way to spend our wealth on what gives life instead of what takes life, the oncoming crisis that has been called the “Jackpot” here will most certainly be a crisis without a solution.
Read more...The miscalculations by Berlin in the second world war and Washington/NATO today are eerily similar.
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