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Research has estimated that nearly half the turbines in wind facilities placed in the most vulnerable areas — including the hurricane-prone waters of North Carolina — would face destruction from…
Research continues to find serious, deadly effects of lockdowns and severe government restrictions over Covid-19, such as Gov. Cooper's, while failing to find evidence of their purported benefits. From March…
Scientific controversy surrounds one study. A letter signed by 45 epidemiologists carried a formal request for retraction of the paper. They cited numerous methodological errors and "verifiably false" statements.
The question is this: Does this research offer a slam-dunk case justifying Cooper's extreme emergency orders? This series will examine and discuss each study provided by the Cooper administration and…
The week before Gov. Roy Cooper announced his statewide mask mandate, DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen went in front of the NC House Health Committee to make the case for masking…
Dr. Mandy Cohen, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) secretary, gave a presentation before the NC House Health Committee on June 17. This was the week before…
Why would two professors want to retract a paper that had no apparent methodological, mathematical, or interpretative errors? The answer, as described in part one, is “cancel culture.” In a…
Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies during the Second World War in an attempt to explain and refute the totalitarian ideologies that had delivered Europe into the hands…
Studies from Yale and Penn State find no impact from fracking on groundwater, while a study from Duke finds that putting fat cells from mice in fracking wastewater for weeks…
A series of recent scandals involving forensic evidence in North Carolina have placed hundreds of convictions in doubt and undermined public and judicial confidence in forensic science. To address the…
That’s the title of an opinion piece published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Here are some excerpts: Forensic science is at a crossroads. It…
In a recent post at Environmental Progress, Michael Shellenberger reports that: Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson has filed a lawsuit, demanding $10 million in damages, against the peer-reviewed scientific…