“There’s an assumption that private funding must always be acknowledged because it’s dirty, while public funding never needs to be acknowledged, because it’s pure.” Michael Duffy from ABC Radio National Counterpoint made that comment yesterday … [Read more...] about Government Funding Corrupts
But Jonathan Holmes: Your Report Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed and It’s Wrong
LAST Monday on ABC TV’s Media Watch the sniggering Jonathan Holmes suggested that there was something wrong with Peter Ridd peer-reviewing my technical report ‘Plugging the Murray’s Mouth: The Interrupted Evolution of a Barrier Estuary’. Today I … [Read more...] about But Jonathan Holmes: Your Report Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed and It’s Wrong
Time to Investigate ‘Green’ Media Spin: Mark Poynter
BIASED media coverage of natural resource use issues should be fertile ground for the ABC's Media Watch, but despite efforts to draw their attention to this have displayed little or no inclination to cover it in the past. Then again, as some of the … [Read more...] about Time to Investigate ‘Green’ Media Spin: Mark Poynter
Labor Annihilation in Queensland Will Not be Repeated Federally, Because
I live in Queensland, a very large, resource rich northern state. For too many years we’ve had Labor governments that have run with very populist themes and policies. And we’ve had Chief Scientists that have actively ignored evidence to implement … [Read more...] about Labor Annihilation in Queensland Will Not be Repeated Federally, Because
Honest Politician Needed to Champion Removal of Murray Mouth Barrages
For years now I’ve been writing about the barrages, really sea dykes, that block inflows from the Southern Ocean making the vast shallow coastal lagoons at the end of the Murray River completely dependent on Murray River inflows. Without the dykes … [Read more...] about Honest Politician Needed to Champion Removal of Murray Mouth Barrages
Are Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO Reports Reliable? A Note from Cohenite
THE CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology [BOM] are the peak Australian scientific institutions. Various governments in Australia rely on the scientific conclusions from these government-funded scientific institutions. The assumption is that the scientific … [Read more...] about Are Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO Reports Reliable? A Note from Cohenite
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
