Science & Society

Why We Are Safe From A ‘Black Star’ Sending Earthquakes From A Distance On Sunday- It's Fake News & Fantasy

This is another silly story that is scaring people including very young children and giving them panic attacks. The claim is a fantasy story that a 'black star' (??) at the far side of the sun is going to somehow send powerful earthquakes to Ear ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 19 2017 - 7:35pm

Relevance Of Race And G Factor Over Social Darwinism In China And General

Since writing on intelligence and race, many who know me and that I am capable of Aspergerian levels of critical thought, such as the boss of Science2.0, cannot understand how I, the quantum relativist unforgiving of any simplification, can be suddenly so ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 21 2017 - 4:08am

Theories of Everything, Explained Using The "Ten Hundred" Most Common Words.

Up goer five is a game where you try to explain a hard idea in simple words. I am even writing this part using only the most often used words. Even a idea for how it all works. Even the word "theory" is not in the list of the 1000 most common wo ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 22 2017 - 1:04pm

Banning "Transgender" And Other Words At the CDC, A Covfefe Worth Of Logic.

Evidence shows that banning scientific words does not stop them from being used.   Today in many reports the Trump administration banned the use by the CDC of the words or phrases, transgender, evidence based, science based, fetus, vulnerable, entitlement, ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 16 2017 - 3:26pm

Awful FALSE Christmas Eve Video With 3.2 Million Views Claims Small Nuclear Exchange Plunges World Into-25°C Deep Freeze

This is awful. A science writer and video producer who decided Christmas Eve is just the right time to publish a video claiming FALSELY that a small nuclear exchange of 100 nuclear weapons would destroy all world agriculture for decades. This is based on ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 5 2018 - 12:48pm

Paid The Bill But Power Still Shut Off By ComEd, A Libertarian And Scientific Case For Solar Panels In Winter. UPDATE

W e all pay our electric and gas bills in winter with more urgency than in summer because cold can kill you.  Without both electricity and gas modern furnaces will not function.  So we pay and think that the cold will be at bay for a month.  Then my famil ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 10 2018 - 9:30am

Winter Olympics Talks- Korean Hopes For Reunification- US Can't Attack Without Warning US Civilians In South Korea

North Korea is going to send a team to the Winter Olympics in South Korea. The news is looking promising with a significant thawing of relations between the two Koreas in advance of the Winter Olympics. High level talks have begun already between North an ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 14 2018 - 4:52pm

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The title of this post is the password code required to connect to my wireless network at home. The service, provided by the Italian internet provider Fastweb, has been discontinued as I moved to Padova from Venice, so you can't really do much with th ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 10 2018 - 3:41am

Why Is Illegal Immigration- And Everything Else- Once Again More Important Than Science?

Yesterday, Democrats in the U.S. Senate which, along with the House of Representatives, form the two chambers of Congress, which are one of the three branches of government,(1) refused to fund a "continuing resolution" to essentially keep funding ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 20 2018 - 2:07pm

RIP To Science 2.0 Journalist Greg Critser

Science 2.0 community, it is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of long-time science journalist Greg Critser, the earliest science journalist to sign up on this site, in 2007. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 22 2018 - 11:57am