Advice & Dissent

Aug24

Huffington Post ups Iraqi deaths past 1 million

As of August 14th, 1,019,627 Iraqis "have been killed due to the U.S. invasion" according to Robert Naiman in a blog at the Huffington Post. His methodology, however, as you might guess, is a bit wanting. He starts with a 2006 Lancet study that he says calculates 600,000 Iraqi…Read More
Aug21

Burying the Lancet's "100,000 civilians killed" nonsense

It was an October surprise courtesy of the Lancet medical journal. A report, rushed to the public via online publication five days before the 2004 election, claimed the American-led coalition had directly or indirectly killed about 100,000 Iraqi civilians since the invasion…Read More
Aug20

Hansen to his critics: You're paid-off "court jesters"

Global warming alarmist since 1988 and head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies James Hansen has answered his critics who 1) pointed out that his agency put out false but significant data on US warming trends, and 2) refused to publicize these figures after changing them…Read More
Aug16

Canada's wonderful robo-surgeon. But can they afford it?

The neuroArm, as I write in TCS Daily, is a wonderful Canadian invention that goes beyond robotic surgery, the main advantage of which is no shaky scalpels. It also allows neurological operations inside an MRI machine, sending the surgeon a continuous stream of 3-D images as well…Read More
Aug16

James Hansen's Hacks and their Global Warming Game

If you follow the global warming debate, one thing you "know" is there is no debate. Questioning man-made global warming puts in the same league as Holocaust deniers and proves you're on the take from Big Carbon. Another is that nine of the ten warmest years recorded in the U.S…Read More
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