Category: Modern science
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I believe in science! What?!?
It is the year 2016 and Hillary Clinton’s nomination acceptance speech contained the simple phrase: “I believe in science”. She punctuated it with a chuckle while the audience roared its support. “I believe that climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.” She had…
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Militant Science (or else: Paid science)
Science today has nothing to do with science in the "good old days" of Newton, when people curious about how the cosmos worked tried to reach the "truth" by endless analysis and thinking on various topics. Today science is more of a tool for politicians and people in power to promote specific agendas. Anyone having…
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Geo-engineering.
Scientists agree that geo-engineering is legal. (source) Weather modification (including cloud seeding) was discussed from the 40’s (see declassified meeting notes of US Senate hearing at 1974 and here). Patents for cloud seeding have been filed from this time. (Powder contrail generation) Geo-engineering and weather modification today is part of the university research, part of private…
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deCODE common logic... NOT!
deCODE Genetics, a company known for mining the DNA of Iceland's population to find links between genes and diseases, has hit a snag. As Science reports in this week's print issue, a national agency that oversees data privacy in Iceland has rejected a request from deCODE to allow it to apply computational methods to the…
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