Quick link: climate and energy humour
Climate Progress has a post on climate and energy humour for 2010. Readers have added examples in the comments thread. Do you have any humour to add?
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (well, we missed last week) look at media spin tactics: let’s dissect the PR and propaganda that aims to blow one’s own horn, bury one’s errors, resurrect the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Let’s call this for what it is: terrorism.
A US congresswoman has been shot at point blank range at a meeting in Tucson, Arizona. Democrat Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition and a nine-year-old girl is dead. A US congresswoman is among at least 10 people who have [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Quick link: BMJ on the Wakefield autism paper
The Office of Research Integrity in the United States defines fraud as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism. Deer unearthed clear evidence of falsification. He found that not one of the 12 cases reported in the 1998 Lancet paper was free of misrepresentation or undisclosed alteration, and that in no single case could the medical records be fully reconciled with the descriptions, diagnoses, or histories published in the journal.
Who perpetrated this fraud? There is no doubt that it was Wakefield.
Climate clippings 10
These posts include a brief mention of a number of news items relating to climate change. They don’t preclude treating any of these topics at more length in a separate post. They can also serve as an open thread so [...]
Guest post by Chris Dickinson: Labor Cannot Stand Alone
In my last post here at LP, I caused an unexpected stir when I mentioned that the Liberal party only polled about 31% at the last election. There was a storm of comments to the effect that the coalition had [...]
Labour market myth busting
As we all slouch back towards work in the new year, a hardy perennial has been dominating the business pages and the Bosses’ Bible, the Australian Financial Review. Spurred on, this time, by the release of 1980 Cabinet papers (resources [...]
Buggy whips, 2010 style
…but not this one. The Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt have hit the market in the United States, to good reviews. But they’re not available in Australia; even if they were, I wouldn’t buy one. The Leaf’s 160 kilometre range [...]
Gerry Harvey’s rent seeking and Australian politics
In writing about the risible campaign for taxing online consumption, it’s perhaps fair to note that Gerry Harvey has been loudly proclaiming that it wasn’t all idea, but he’s been copping all the flak. Poor petal. I guess there’s a [...]
Recent Comments