Category Archives: Science And Society

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Public Health’s Sacrificial Lambs

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This is a deep, deep problem. I hope it’s not intractable. Jay Battacharya has a heavy lift. The way so many used the pandemic to seize power over the lives of others reminds me a lot of the climate scam.

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The Proposed “Science Budget Cuts” At NASA

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Bob Zimmerman says that there are things deserving of cutting.

I certainly agree about Mars Sample Return, and said that on X this morning. I think we need a dramatic change in how these funds are allocated and prioritized, and the current decadal needs to be completely redone.

But I also don’t pay much attention to what OMB says at this point in the process.

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Jurassic Park, Here We Come

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I suspect they went extinct because the Siberian-Americans wiped out their food supply. It seems to me that the next de-extinctions should be woolly mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, and ancient bison, to give them worthy prey. There’s apparently no record of them being north of 42 degrees, but that’s probably because it was covered in ice at their time.