In November 2001, four scientists prepared a science statement for the Queensland Government’s Reef Protection Taskforce. Two versions of that statement exist. The differences between them are significant. The original version, tabled at the … [Read more...] about Versions of Science Statement for Reef Protection Taskforce, November 2001
Disinformation
25 Years Since the Diuron Mangrove Claims – 15 Years Since Our Rebuttal, Still No Correction
What makes the continued sidelining of a 2011 paper that I published with John Abbot so consequential is not simply that one study was overlooked, but that it has allowed a myth to be perpetuated. Do we really want to live in such a society, where … [Read more...] about 25 Years Since the Diuron Mangrove Claims – 15 Years Since Our Rebuttal, Still No Correction
Average Temperatures and Heat Movement (Part 2)
I should think that when enough time has passed, the current leaders of the free world – but especially the scientists who advise them – will be remembered in the history books as rather deceitful. That after a few hundred years of a period of … [Read more...] about Average Temperatures and Heat Movement (Part 2)
Average Temperatures and Heat Movement (Part 1)
They say the victor writes the history of a period, and that may be so. But when enough time has passed it must be the case that the present will be seen as truly bizarre when it comes to the demise of the natural sciences and our understanding of … [Read more...] about Average Temperatures and Heat Movement (Part 1)
Bait and Switch – Frightened of Dioxins Killing Dugongs Drown in Nets
Can’t see the fishing nets that killed the dugongs, for the naturally occurring dioxins that made media headlines, is what I might have said on radio back more than two decades. At the time, it caused me much grief because the General Manager of … [Read more...] about Bait and Switch – Frightened of Dioxins Killing Dugongs Drown in Nets
Pro-Nuclear Genuflexion to Nonsense Climate Catastrophe
My understanding is that the fortunes of a lot of already very rich white men across the West are tied-up with the transition to so-called renewable energy. And at the same time the superannuation of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) employees … [Read more...] about Pro-Nuclear Genuflexion to Nonsense Climate Catastrophe
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
