bad science journalism, Tag

You may have heard that NASA announced over the weekend at a conference that a large meteor exploded in the upper atmosphere over the Bering Sea on December 18th, 2018, which had gone unnoticed due to the location of entry...

Australia’s ABC News and Marty McCarthy not only jumps the shark, but makes a mockery of science reporting. Ross Hyland writes to Climate Depot (which was forwarded to me for analysis) about a claim about climate change...

Guest jab by David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America… Brazil’s new president has scientists worried...

Guest eye-rolling by David Middleton The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer once again demonstrates a music major’s grasp of science… SCIENCE There’s Snow on TV, so Trump’s Tweeting About Climate Change Alas,...

Guest rebuttal by David Middleton Houston can’t afford to accept Trump’s view of climate change [Editorial] By The Editorial Board Dec. 1, 2018 Updated: Dec. 4, 2018 President Trump frequently acts like he knows what...

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen   The NY Times is obsessed with the President — it cannot report anything without taking a pot shot at him. In this case, NY Times Climate journalist, Kendra “Gloom is My Beat”...

Guest oy vey by David Middleton First we learn that climate change is dissolving the seafloor and now we find out that Earth is devouring its own oceans (like it could be devouring some other planet’s oceans)…...

From the GWPF: A week ago, we were told that climate change was worse than we thought. But the underlying science contains a major error. Independent climate scientist Nicholas Lewis has uncovered a major error in a recent...

Opinion by DR. TIM BALL Seth Borenstein has a journalism degree but claims to be a science reporter. He might have claim to the journalism label except that everything he writes is biased, misleading, distorted, and wrong...

  News Analysis by Kip Hansen Oops, can I say that here?  BS?  Oh, pretend it means “Barley Science.” It does, sort of, especially in this instance.  You see, it isn’t really science.  It is an even worse word...

Guest ridiculing by David Middleton From some SJW rag, via Real Clear Politics… ANTHROPOCENE We Still Don’t Understand the Superstorms of the Anthropocene By Caroline Haskins Oct 12 2018 As of this morning, five people...

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Catastrophe looms for the problematic puffin.  The likeable comically shaped and  cartoonishly colored birds that are the emblematic symbol of Iceland and are the official bird symbol for...

Guest mocking by David Middleton From the No Schist Sherlock files of the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America…   Originally published by E&E News Top researchers are huddled with...

Guest clobberin’ time by David Middleton As global warming continues, Trump wants to burn fossil fuels with an arsonist’s glee By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD SEP 29, 2018 Here’s some disquieting, if unsurprising,...

Guest ridicule by David Middleton Note: The featured image is of thankfully former President Obama babbling about climate change at Yosemite National Park in 2016.  While not part of the article being addressed in this post…...