New book coming soon! Hopefully fiction…

I will be with Trevor Christian on @WUSBradio.bsky.social 90.1 FM in Stony Brook on Monday, June 23rd (9 AM-11 AM), as we interview @ShawnOtto.bsky.social discussing his book The War on Science #media #journalism #politcs #FreedomOfSpeech #ClimateCrisis

In early 2016, before #Trump won his first Republican presidential nomination, a prescient book by @shawnotto.bsky.social described three components of the war on #science. 1) Industrial 2) Religious/Ideological 3) Identity Politics Here's my review of Otto's book denisgilbert.com/blog/f/war-o...

NOAA terminates space, climate and marine life advisory committees

Want to understand this madness? Read thewaronscience.com

What TruMusk don’t get is this is a government by the people, which literally means a lot of people are involved in running it, and we arrive at policies by consensus, not by diktat from the presidents (pronouns: they/them)

This new exec order functionally puts Elon Musk in charge of the executive branch, with all departments reporting to him. Is this a coup?

La Leona waterfall in Costa Rica. An intense hike and swim to get there but worth it!

Thanks Chris! Good rec re: the watch speed!

This is insanely cynical and/or journalistically irresponsible timing, especially with the Trump assault on anything climate related, which is certainly newsworthy and a raison d’etre for journalists in a democracy. WTF, HuffPost?

Thinking of my uncle whose early #Alzheimer's disease encroaches like a slow but uncontrollable wildfire, & remembering how excited the #neuropsychology community was when these conferences began. RIP #NIH RIP science. And it's not as if @shawnotto.bsky.social didn't warn y'all almost 10 years ago.

On a train through highland tea country to Nanu Oya.

The fires in Los Angeles County are climate change in action. Today, I spoke with BBC News about how drought is causing devastating impacts in what should be the rainy season. Thanks to climate change, the fire season in California is now year round.

I love complex Italian red wine, craft beer, and single malt scotch, but I stopped drinking alcohol in 2016 after reading the shocking science on how many different types of cancer it is associated with.

The prescient 1977 climate change memo to President Jimmy Carter that could have changed everything - but didn’t.

This is a somewhat spineless review by someone trying to hedge their bets and straddle a fence of their own imagination. The movie is great. Go see it.

Hiroko Tabuchi is one of the very best reporters on critical stories in science and the environment, like the EPA’s colossal failure to regulate PFAS being spread on farm fields. Follow her. www.nytimes.com/by/hiroko-ta...

@futureisorg.bsky.social functional democracy also requires 1) policies be based on objective evidence; the undermining of objective truth is what is challenging U.S. democracy now. 2) separation of church and state; lack of this is why the Arab Spring fizzled. See my book thewaronscience.com

EPA knew PFAS were being unwittingly spread on millions of acres of farmland two decades ago and haven’t stopped it because of staffing shortages and the arduousness of setting new regulations. REALLY?

Sure, EPA, but what about the literally thousands of other PFAS chemicals? Do your job with a little more urgency please.

All breadbasket states should immediately BAN use of sewage sludge as fertilizer unless tests show it is PFAS free.

Total toxic failure by the EPA

Yes science is attacked by the right, but also by authoritarians on the left who claim all “ways of knowing” are =, science & math are tools of white patriarchy, & there’s no objective truth. Disagree & you’re an oppressor. It’s a manipulative power play. If you love justice, love science.

It’s hard to overstate the danger to freedom when a major news organization goes full-on sycophant. ABC seems to have forgotten where their journalistic duty lies.

Today’s haiku: The Sound of Music’s antifa theme urges me to stiffen my spine.

If it doesn’t reflect, you must accept! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Didn’t attend my talk? CHECK. Didn’t read my book? CHECK. Perfect grounds for a professor(?) and intelligent design advocate to publish an article criticizing both. #scholarshipdied

Pretty much the definition of weak-kneed pandering.

Based on the evidence reported, Robert Kaiser shouldn’t have been charged. “No other explanation for the infant’s neurological presentation” isn’t a valid scientific statement & doesn’t meet the bar of beyond reasonable doubt. Now they’re retrying him. www.greatnorthinnocenceproject.org/robertkaiser

When emissions stop, warming (likely) stops. Andrew Dessler has a new deep dive on the climate physics underling the zero emissions commitment over at the Climate Brink today: www.theclimatebrink....

Excellent reporting on RFK Jr’s pernicious, selfish and cruel spread of health disinformation, which has contributed to thousands of deaths even as it has enriched him. Truly evil stuff.

So for some reason I’ve started buying broken EGO electric lawn mowers and fixing them up then reselling them to keep them from going into landfills. The electronics are pretty easy to diagnose and fix and it’s sort of like doing a puzzle. Does this mean I’m getting old?

The Trump-RFK Jr anti-vax bromance goes back farther than most people realize. Here’s a news report from January 10, 2017, before Trump was sworn in the first time.

Something to be thankful for: vaccines, esp HPV vaccine, which Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann campaigned against in 2011. Studies indicate a whopping 65% reduction in cervical cancer incidence during 2012 to 2019 among US women younger than 25. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Trump was able to win because he and his followers convinced most of the country to believe in his *falsification of factual truth*." By psychiatrist & historian Robert Jay Lifton, an expert on atrocities in Hiroshima, Vietnam and Nazi Germany www.scientificamerican.com/article/when...

Vancouver: we're fighting to save our visionary policy ending gas hookups for heating new homes and buildings. It's 3 years on: builders are building, the transition is on! But Fortis & fossil lobbyists want to drag us backwards. Let's put gas in the past: heat pumps for all!

If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Wow.

Why did we have such high inflation? Because of supply chain disruptions driven in part by our terrible pandemic outcomes. Why did the most scientifically advanced country have the worst outcomes? Because of Trump’s mismanagement . By the time COVID hit, 1600+ scientists had left the federal govt.

Meet Musk’s first DOGE firing target - based on an anonymous & ignorant post on social media, with zero investigation. Ashley Thomas, the government employee in question, does technical work on how to make agriculture more robust under conditions of extreme weather. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

My 20 ton log splitter, rebuilt with a 5hp electric motor. Faster, stronger, quieter, can use in the garage, and no fossil fuels!

What could go wrong here?

How to communicate with your science-denying uncle at Thanksgiving

Thanks to @esbast.bsky.social for putting this negotiation on everyone's radar. Follow her, people! www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/19/h...

More news from the worm-eaten brain of RFK Jr. & friends. Maybe @drjeffmasters.bsky.social can tell us more about the illegal gag order that RFK is persuaded is keeping all 6,214 meteorologists in the United States silent! 😀

“You may believe yourself not to be in one of the vulnerable categories, but you won’t know if you’ve ended up on a list for some reason or your loved ones have. Every single person should be worried.”