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Global Warming and Scholarly Conspiracies, etc. Part Two
In Part One of Scholarly Conspiracies, Scholarly Corruption and Global Warming, I drew on my own experience as a scholar to describe how the scientific enterprise can easily become corrupted for anodyne, innocent reasons, for reasons that are not especially … Continue reading
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Tagged American Heart Association, climate change, corruption, duodenum ulcer, FRance, glaciers, global warming, I Used to Be French, I used to Be French: an Immature Autobiography, melting glaciers, National Geographic, Nina Teisholz, Rising Seas, saturated fats, scholarly, science, scientific, stomach ulcer, The Big Fat Surprise, Type II diabetes
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Climate Change, for Real!
The monster two-thousand pages health reform bill is going to pass, I think. There are two silver linings to this disaster, First, I have never in my life seen Americans pay such attention to the mechanics of how legislation is … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Gore, bovine burps, Cap and Trade, carbon absoprtion, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, climate chnage, Climategate, Collapse, Earth core temperature, geothermal energy, global warming, Greenland, hockey stick graph, Iran, Jared Diamond, National Geographic, natural gas, nuclear energy, petroleum, President Obama, Sen. Landrieux, Stalin, Straight of Hormuz, Times of London, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, water vapor, wheat harvests
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Indecent Stories for Decent Women: Fiction by John René Adolph, a Man (2017)
Les pumas de grande banlieue: histoires d'émigration (2014)
I Used to Be French: an Immature Autobiography (2014)
FACTS MATTER 