An environmental watchdog group [Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)] that is defending a suspended government biologist who claims polar bears are drowning has blasted the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed scientific integrity rules, saying they will make it easier for scientists to be punished for misconduct.
Can you imagine the chaos if scientists who knowingly publish fraudulent data were suddenly punishable for misconduct? Why, the push for carbon dioxide emission reductions would drop overnight. Al Gore would have to find a new scaremongering job somewhere. Public hangings of global warming deniers would drop off dramatically.
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Good gravy. When trying to implode buildings the purported goal is to bring down the building.
Now, you blow your wad and the building is still standing.
Two of its 230-foot smoke stacks collapsed to the ground — and the building dropped 18 feet and teetered back and forth — but it never fell, said Jennifer Gregor, operations manager and marketing coordinator for Engineered Products.
Do you:
A) Waltz in, inspect it all, and carefully plant more ANFO in strategic locations?
B) Walk away in disgust, saying “Kwitcherbitchin’, it’s going to fall on it’s own eventually, anyway”?
C) Open another bottle of Johnny Walker?
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I know this sort of thing has been claimed before but I do have hopes that it (or any of them) come to pass. The idea of being able to wipe out leukemia so easily is so cool.
It’s a good example of where government does not have to be the source – an idea that has merit will be funded.
With results for the three patients published Wednesday simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine, money for further studies — not just in this one type of leukemia, but in other cancers — will likely pour in from both the government and drug companies.
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More later, I’m sure.
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