Advice & Dissent

The folks who dubbed the swine flu piglet a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO), just won't let up. "It is too early to say whether there has yet been a peak in infections in the northern hemisphere," Reuters paraphrased the WHO as saying, "and it will be some weeks…Read More
Mr. Fumento, I read your articles religiously. You recently attacked swine flu as hysterical overreaction. It regards swine flu hospitalizations hitting a new high in California. What is your opinion on this? This was the second wave, remember? It was predictable because the…Read More
From the thousands of email and other documents that comprise "Climategate," this is one of the most interesting: It's a "travesty" that "we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment." (Emphasis added.) Further, "any consideration of geoengineering is quite hopeless as…Read More
After playing a news clip stating, "University scientists say raw data from the 1980s was thrown out" Daily Show host Jon Stewart declared, "Why would you throw out raw data from the '80s? I still have Penthouses from the '70s! Laminated!"Read More
Whoa! Did we just have a hurricane season? Doesn't seem that way. "2009 hurricane season ends quietly with fewest storms since 1997," declares one headline. "The season featured nine named storms, the fewest since 1997, and for the first time since 2006 no hurricanes made…Read More