Even the EPW recognizes junk science when it sees it. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the outgoing Chairman of Environment & Public Works Committee has announced the public release of the Senate Committee published booklet entitled “A Skeptic’s Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism. Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists who Cover Global Warming.” Click here to download the “Skeptic’s Guide”. More from Senator Inhofe’s blog, via Environment & Public Works: An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to
Read More +Nadia Abu El-Haj is granted tenure
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As unbelievable as it is to we who know the truth, Barnard College just granted tenure to a palestinian archeologist who denies the Jewish presence in Israel before the 20th century. From The Chronicle: Barnard College just announced that Nadia Abu El-Haj, an anthropologist whose tenure bid has been the subject of online debate for weeks, has been promoted to the rank of associate professor. Nadia Abu El-Haj’s “fraudulent expertise is just a disguise for her true aim – to assassinate the character, people, culture, history, biography, agriculture, and architecture of the indigenous Jewish people of Israel”, says Hugh Fitzgerald.
Read More +1922 edition of Washington Post: ‘Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt’…
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h/t Drudge Report, from Inside the Beltway: D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: “Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt.” The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention “great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones,” and “at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared.” “This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and
Read More +Who is Nadia Abu El-Haj?
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She is a young Palestinian-American who is also Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard. According to Jameel at The Muqata, its tenure time at Barnard College, and Nadia Abu El Haj is aspiring to attain the coveted Barnard professorship title in her field of Anthropology. And the problem with that? In her doctoral thesis, which she morphed into a book, “Facts on the Ground: Archeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society.”, she denies that the Jewish people lived in Israel in ancient times. This, coming from a so-called expert in anthropology. What is anthropology? One definition is the study
Read More +When kleptocracies fail
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Folks, in Azure’s Winter 2007 issue, at www.azure.org.il, you’ll be able to read “The Gene Wars” by Paul S. Appelbaum and Diana Muir Appelbaum, which explores the way failing national movements – including the Palestinians, Macedonians, and others – are now turning to genetic research to “prove” their people’s claims to land. The essay shows just how unreliable the science of it really is, and why it is a mistake to try and substantiate such claims on “scientific” grounds. Click here to read another excellent article by Diana Muir on Muslim propaganda at the University of Chicago, at their museum,
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