No one is immune to falsehoods, in part because of how our cognition is built and how misinformation exploits it.  We use mental shortcuts, or heuristics, to make many of our judgments, which benefit us.  At the same time however, our cognitive tendencies can make us...

Once upon a time, six old blind men lived in a village in India.  Because they could not see the world for themselves, they had to imagine many of its wonders and listened carefully to the stories told by travelers to learn what they could about life outside the...

A deception is a deliberate act to mislead; and the misinformation being disseminated by the UN and this administration regarding climate change is the most extensive and expensive public relations campaign in the history of the world.  True, mankind has experienced...

“Dangerous Fungi Are Spreading Across U.S. as Temperatures Rise” is the attention-grabbing title of a February 1starticle that appeared in the WSJ.  Being attuned to the falsities of the left regarding climate I decided to abstract a few sentences from Dominique...

The world’s oldest continuous temperature record is the Central England Temperature Data Series that began in 1659.  But from a purely scientific standpoint there are too few data prior to 1880 for scientists to extrapolate anything concrete about future temperatures...

Climate Science isn’t just a pertinent science anymore, it’s become a critical field of study.  Thousands of researchers supported by billions of dollars, work in many fields to understand the earth’s climate and project its future.  The result is the publication of...

The NY Times warns that “across the globe climate change is happening faster than scientists predicted,” but the UN tells us the earth is warming at one half the rate previously thought.  Time Magazine tells us, “Be worried, be very worried,”, while the granddaddy of...

One of the most entertaining books I’ve ever read is Bill Bryon’s "A Short History of Nearly Everything", in it, the author touches on topics such as…well, nearly everything.  Bryson is a meticulous researcher, an outstanding teacher, and the book is wall-to-wall fun....

Why is it that you’ll never see a barfight between two guys drinking Chardonnay? What people want most from government is to live their lives with a degree of comfort, a feeling of security, and the belief they can trust the government to function in a reasonable...