The Australian’s War on Science 72: George Pell learns nothing
In a piece ironically titled “Be prudent with climate claims” (behind The Australian‘s paywall, search for the title if you want to read it) George Pell declares that, unlike him, “many politicians...
View ArticleThe Australian’s War on Science 73: Blainey’s false history
In an interview in The Australian (behind The Australian‘s paywall, search for “Gadfly Geoffrey Blainey”) historian Geoffrey Blainey gets his history wrong: In 1970 the overwhelming majority of...
View ArticleThe Australian’s War on Science 74: Spinning the IPCC Extreme Weather report
The IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) found: Regarding the future, the assessment concludes that it is virtually...
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The Australian’s War on Science 75: Plimer vs Plimer
The Australian has continued its war on science by printing an extract from Ian Plimer’s new book, How to Get Expelled from School. The extract is largely plagiarised from this press release on a...
View ArticleThe Australian’s War on Science 76: Dad Jokes
Whenever we had bean salad, my Dad would always ask “What’s that?” When told what it was, he would say “Don’t tell me what it’s been, tell me what it is now!” That’s a Dad joke. The defining properties...
View ArticleThe Australian’s War on Science 77
Michael Asten continues The Australian‘s war on science. In his latest piece (Google “Science hijacked at school level”) Asten complains that secondary science education is not paying attention to the...
View ArticleThe Australian’s war on technology
Nick Ross writes: The Australian’s technology coverage (in print) is a mixed bag in that it has some of the very best technology writers in the country but their section’s reputation gets tainted by...
View ArticleThe Australian’s War on Science 78
Graham Lloyd is back with a story headlined “Climate link to Sandy invalid” (Google the title if you want to read it). As we’ve come to expect from The Australian the headline is contradicted by the...
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The Australian’s War on Science 79: Maurice Newman versus your lying eyes
Maurice Newman, former chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, has the necessary lack of scientific qualifications to write about climate science in The Australian (Google “Losing their...
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The Australian’s War on Science 81: Matt Ridley’s 20 year old wrong prediction
Matt Ridley, in The Globe and Mail, 31 Dec 1993. Global warming, too, has shot its bolt, now that the scientific consensus has settled down on about a degree of temperature increase over a century-that...
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