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Posts made in April, 2012

Good News, Science 2.0 Writers – Women Prefer Arrogant Men

Let's be honest - in the 21st century the wussification of men has been in full force.   Being a man is out if that means not being a politically correct, hyper-sensitive, asexual, homogenized follower of all that is cool and popular among the cultural intelligentsia.But testosterone levels are dropping and that could mean any number of consequences for the future of our species. Now you...

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Science Left Behind

Science Left Behind

Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Science Left Coming September 2012 from Public Affairs Books Available for pre-order on Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com Are conservatives anti-science? Pundits eagerly trot out the fact that many Republicans don’t believe in evolution, don’t believe in global warming, and dislike embryonic stem cell research. If...

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Commodity Speculation Is Your Friend

President Barack Obama decided that recent spike in gas prices is not due to increased demand from overseas or his policies designed to block domestic oil, it is due to…oil speculators. Right? What? How can speculators be the issue?  There is no market if people only bet prices will go up and the price stabilizes where there are winners and losers – betting prices will go up right...

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Obama’s Solar Policy: If You Can’t Beat the Chinese, Tax Them

Obama’s Solar Policy: If You Can’t Beat the Chinese, Tax Them

Why is it right for Americans to provide low-cost loans to its solar panel manufacturers, but when China does it, it is an illegal subsidy and demands tariffs in response? In an article featured on Forbes.com, Hank Campbell and Alex Berezow investigate the US policies that have led to the current boom in solar panel manufacturing – and why the surge has resulted in revenue growth for...

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H5N1 Avian Influenza Controversy – The Fix Was In?

A closed U.S. Government-requested meeting last month set out to determine the fate of two controversial unpublished papers on the H5N1 avian influenza virus but it was stacked in favor of their full publication, a participant now says. The meeting agenda and presenters were “designed to produce the outcome that occurred”, according to a letter leaked to Nature by an anonymous...

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