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Posts tagged "science"

The disappearing American frontier itch

In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the American frontier had closed, raising an important question: Absent the frontier, what would fuel the audacious, inventive and energetic nature of the bold American character? Arguably, imperialism created the new frontier: the Spanish-American War with the acquisition of Cuba and the Philippines blossomed into the American... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 4, 2011 at 10:51 am
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Claims of 'settled science' about global warming and almost everything else are nonsense

I cringe every time I hear someone invoke “settled science.” And when a scientist does it, I smell a rat. Gravity is settled science. But how gravity works is not. Not much of science is all that settled. Especially assertions that global warming is man-made. Claims of settled science have such a tattered history of... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
June 1, 2010 at 8:04 pm
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Evidence of the abortion/breast cancer link

Nothing rockets pro-choice militants into orbit faster than scientific evidence that abortion increases the risk breast cancer. Despite their insistence that ALL the scientific evidence “proves” that there is no link, quite the opposite is true. A recent study indicates that abortion increases the risk of a certain type of breast cancer by 40 percent... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 26, 2010 at 12:32 pm
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Climate Skeptic's Notebook II

Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal nails it with his analysis of the dogmatic environmentalists that have gathered in Hopenhagen. Environmentalists doing the wave in Copenhagen. Just kidding. But the like-mindedness of the climate change delegates sure has the feel of a wave. Here’s a partial rundown of some of the ills seriously attributed... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 8, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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