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The Pernicious Principles of Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg, a founder of something called the Copenhagen Consensus Center, has been widely discredited by scientists here and abroad for his views on…
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The Conspiracy of Left and Right to Discredit Science
Huffington Post is laughable.
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The New Battle: Resisting The Anthropocene
From March 1-4, 2013, I participated in a roundtable conference in San Francisco on Techno-Optimism, sponsored by the International Forum on…
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Guha's Diatribe
Ramachandra Guha's recent piece ("The Authoritarian Biologist and the Arrogance of Anti-Humanism", The Ecologist January/February 1997) is a…
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Scientists and Advocacy
A bit of history may add to the recent debate in Conservation Biology on scientific advocacy.
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The Anthropocene and the New Lysenkoism
Science in the service of ideology was epitomized in the Soviet Union under the iron fist of Stalin, who entrenched anti-evolutionary research thanks to…
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The Five Thousand Centuries of Nuclear Garbage
One Saturday last March over 500 residents, farmers, and business people in the Cattaraugus County region of western New York State crowded into a West…
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Wasting Away: Radioactive Waste Disposal is the Achilles Heel of the Nuclear Industry
For decades the nuclear industry has been seeking a safe method of radioactive waste disposal.
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Bad Solutions to Radioactive Pollution
Government plans for disposal of low-level radioactive wastes present an enormous threat to future generations
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A commentary on the Technology of Processing and Preserving Foods by Exposure to Ionizing Radiation
by Lorna Salzman & Judith Johnsrud, Ph.D.
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James Hansen: Right on climate, Wrong on Nukes
James Hansen continues to promote nuclear power as a solution to climate change, even though it clearly is not and even though the reasons are fairly…
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Pro-Nuclear Propaganda: How Science, Government and the Press Conspire to Misinform the Public
After the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in the Soviet Union, there was much finger-wagging in the US about the suppression of information there…
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