Current acting Prime Minister, Mathias Cormann, has stated on Sky News (where else?) that “Carbon Capture and Storage is a proven technology which helps reduce global greenhouse gas emissions”1. Carbon…
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You will often hear anti-vaccination people complain about the dangers of vaccinations. Some still believe the bogus assertion by Andrew Wakefield that Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccinations cause autism, despite this being…
When scientists say they have undertaken a meta-analysis1, it means that they have looked at the raw data from several other studies and extracted what is required from it to…
In conversations with climate change deniers, I have had it explained to me that all the climate scientists in the world are on the bandwagon to keep themselves in cushy…
Often you will hear a creationist, or simply an ignoramus ask: “If we evolved from apes how come there are still apes around?” I have had this question asked of…
In relation to the supposed religious protections requested by opponents to same-sex marriage, the Member of Parliament from Western Australia, Andrew Hastie asked: “will parents and faith-based schools be able…
The assertion of incompetence is implicit in geologists such as Plimer and Carter1 maintaining that all 600+ climate scientists party to the IPCC reports2 have made some glaringly obvious errors…
A dichotomy means a division into two mutually exclusive options. False dichotomies are imposing what seems to be a dichotomy on a continuum, or on something which is more complex,…
One of the lies commonly related by climate change deniers is that in the 1970s, most scientific papers predicted the climate would cool and there would be a new ice…
Climate change deniers will often say that climate scientists or oceanographers are exaggerating the amount of sea-level rise. Indeed, they will attempt to have you believe that tide gauges on…