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Ethan Barton Federal agencies apparently spent $35 million on 20 questionable studies, a report has found, including experiments on what makes goldfish feel sexy and if being liberal is genetic. “We ought to reevaluate a system that spends federal funds looking for America’s next top model over a cure for cancer,” Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said in…
We all seen these studies, we’ve run many of them at this site. But why are there so many scientific studies with such unconventional results. Will coffee kill you or does it cure cancer? Both? We don’t know, but John Oliver knows why we have to hear about these kind of studies all the time.
Michael Bastasch United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told The Washington Post why he’s so fixated on fighting global warming: He thought he could solve the world’s problems by forcing countries to cut carbon dioxide. “From day one, I made climate change the top priority,” Ki-moon told The Post. “There were many crises around the world,…
By Andrew Follett A team of astronomers from the University of Liège in Belgium found three potentially inhabitable planets relatively close to Earth, according to a study published online Monday. Three planets are in orbit around a star known as TRAPPIST-1. They’re “currently the best place to search for life beyond the solar system,” according to the study. This…
By Michael Bastasch It’s been nearly one decade since former Vice President Al Gore released his film “An Inconvenient Truth.” It sent shockwaves through American politics and emboldened environmental activists to push for more regulations on American businesses. Gore warned increasing carbon dioxide emissions would spur catastrophic global warming that would cause more extreme weather, wipe…
By Michael Bastasch A new documentary by a prominent global warming skeptic takes on many of the claims from environmentalists and politicians who want to regulate nearly every aspect of the economy to stop it. Marc Morano, a prominent global warming skeptic and publisher of the website Climate Depot, has released his new documentary film “Climate…
By Andrew Follett Scientists have found that global warming is helping Canadian trees recover from a devastating insect infestation, according to research published Tuesday by the University of Victoria. The research focuses on the forest of the Canadian province of British Columbia and found that warmer, wetter and more carbon dioxide (CO2) rich conditions caused by global warming are…
By Michael Bastasch The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands has subpoenaed a libertarian think tank after pledging to investigate ExxonMobil for allegedly misleading the public about global warming. AG Claude Walker served the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a D.C.-based free market think tank, with a subpoena Thursday, in an apparent effort to tie the…
Michael Bastasch It’s another bad day in court for environmentalists trying to prove how bad hydraulic fracturing has been for the town of Dimock, Pa. A Cornell University engineering professor often used by activists to attack fracking ran from reporters after he admitted in court there was no proof drilling had contaminated Dimock’s drinking water. Prof. Tony…
By Andrew Follett Mysterious and powerful groups of radio waves from deep space beyond the Milk Way galaxy are coming in repeating clusters. The scientists published their study online Wednesday in the journal Nature. “Not only did these bursts repeat, but their brightness and spectra also differ from those of other FRBs,” Laura Spitler, lead author…