Comments on: When Good Science Goes Bad: 3 Ideas that Went Really Wrong

By: That Jeff

That Jeff — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:08:24 +0000

Ryan: Your “tens of thousands of scientists” that have purportedly signed a petition saying there’s no evidence to global warming is a sham. It has already been proven that this “petition” was set up by anti-GW lobby, that most of the names on the list were either fake, were not scientists, were dead scientists who couldn’t have signed it, or were forgeries of real scientists who were outraged that their name was put on the petition.

By: Teresa is amazing

Teresa is amazing — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:49:11 +0000

DDT also kills bedbugs, which have made a huge comeback due to all the globetrotters.
Sleep tight…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:37:23 +0000

Actually, tens of thousands of scientists, many of whom specialize in climate science, have already signed a petition to Congress stating that there is insufficient evidence for anthopogenic global warming. The entire global warming hysteria is largely politically-motivated. The media reports on every study that draws unsubstantiated conclusions (because researchers want more money for research), but never report on the studies that find the exact opposite.

I’m all for a clean environment, but even a tiny bit of skepticism is enough for anyone to see that anthropogenic global warming is complete nonsense.

By: Tamsyn

Tamsyn — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:49:14 +0000

Am I the only one to notice that is was Marie CURIE (not Currie) and her husband Pierre who discovered radium? And things didn’t turn out too well for Marie either; she died of aplastic anemia due to radiation poisoning and had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin.

By: Billy Fikes

Billy Fikes — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:03:00 +0000

When good science goes bad, 2050 edition:
50 years ago people started holding radiation emitting cell phones next to their heads for up to hours a day. The resulting long term radiation concentrations caused genetic brain tumors in addition to the prehensile ear lobes.

(captcha for this post: matter radio)

By: anonysumo

anonysumo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:25:22 +0000

Mind that being ‘green’ is part of the larger issue of sustainability. Whether we’re at fault for the climate is beside the point when you consider the resources that will be used as China, India, other places, further develop.

Another way to put it is that there are too many people on earth, so maybe the aprons and paint aren’t so bad?

By: AvangionQ

AvangionQ — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:42:26 +0000

It takes a special kind of stupid to put unknown hazardous chemicals in your mouth … [ADDENDUM] Science and the marvels that come with invention are merely tools and morally neutral — its how we use and/or modify these tools that determine any ethical aspects …

By: Salti

Salti — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:35:26 +0000

JP is merely commenting on all the sudden wackiness to “go green” which, while it certainly IS better for the environment, doesn’t justify all the demands that the tree huggers are imposing on the rest of the normal thinking world. It’s very elitist to think that we could cause that amount of damage in 200 years to a planet that has been around for 4.5 billion years

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:46:30 +0000

Speaking of radium, that watch factory was all of a 1/4 mile from my childhood home. Between the ages of 10 and 20, the EPA dug up the ENTIRE neighborhood. I mean everything that a house wasn’t right on top of. They knocked down garages, they dug out basements, they moved out families for months at a time. They had to get out all the radon that the factory just dumped in the soil- tons and tons of it.

We got to stay in our house, but while we were on a 3 week vacation they dug up our entire backyard, pulled down our garage and replaced the lawn. It was actually great, they dug like 20 feet down, so we got new sod, a new garage and a new backyard patio out of the deal. In a few instances they actually tore houses down. The newighborhood looks great to this day.

By: Joe Thorpe

Joe Thorpe — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:59:07 +0000

Add electric (and gas) lighting, which whacks our ipRGCs and our whole hormone system… see photoperiodeffect.com