There is a mystery surrounding the idea of peer reviewed scientific studies.  While the idea is meritorious, publishing in peer reviewed literature has gone from being the best way to present research to a dubious method of presenting agenda originated studies masquerading as legitimate science.

The latest example is a study published in 1998 by the formerly respectable British medical journal, Lancet.  This is the famous study that found a statistical connection between autism and the common vaccinations recieved by infants worldwide.

Since then, parents, interest groups, and almost everyone else proceeded along the path of refusing vaccinations to infants because it was erroneously thought the vaccinations caused or contributed to a child being autistic.

There is enough misinformation in this world, and Lancet should be shut down for taking 12 years to retract the bogus study.  This is not the first time Lancet has been caught presenting politically correct studies as science.

So, what happened to all that peer review that is supposed to keep these rubbish studies from being published?  It simply doesn’t happen.  In the case of climatology, the authors of various studies choose the “peers” who will review the article.  How about that?  Peer review by buddy.

I don’t know why the gross statistical errors in the autism study were not uncovered before publication in 1998, but it seems that the term, peer review, is just another expression.

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How many time have we heard that all the glaciers in the world are melting?  How many times have we heard that today’s temperatures are the warmest in the last 1000 years.  How many times have we heard that the Arctic ice is thinner than any time in history.

Himalayan Glaciers Are Safe From Global Warming

How many lies can we take?

As with the tired old saying, “What goes around, comes around.”, we are starting to see the climate warming scam crumble, and pretty soon it will be collapsing in great big pieces, with the realization that catastrophic global warming is the biggest scam the world has ever seen.

The Times Online recently published the story about the United Nations IPCC claim that the Himalayan glaciers will all be melted by the year 2035, and the baseless RUMORs it was based upon.  It turns out that the Chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, is a wealthy man.

Pachauri is on the board of directors of several international energy companies, and stands to gain Billions of Dollars from his ventures, all of which depend on the IPCC position of catastrophic global warming, and trading carbon credits internationally.   The guy is crooked, and typifies the mentality of those who are advocates of man-made global warming.

The IPCC picked up on an article by the WWF, which quoted a little known Indian scientist, that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.  There is no supporting study, and recent peer reviewed studies show that the 15,000 Himalayan glaciers are in no such trouble.  It is all babble by the leftist agenda driven World Wildlife Fund.

Although I have blogged many times about the world’s climate history, it bears repeating that there have been periods in the past as warm as, or warmer, than the current period.  For example, remember the bull crap circulating that the Arctic ice is thinner today than it has ever been?

Take a look:

USS Skate In Open Water At North Pole In 1959

USS Skate & USS Seadragon At North Pole In 1962

WOW!  Where did all those submarines come from?  Where is all that Arctic ice?  Why doesn’t the scientific establishment admit that all the hype about Arctic ice disappearing is just a bunch of tax raising hooey?  Subs cannot surface at the North Pole, today, because the ice is too thick!

Once again, the whole thing about global warming and carbon dioxide being the cause is an international scam of huge proportions.  There are Billions and Trillions of dollars at stake, and all the politicos and government funded scientific grant hogs are lining up to get their share.

It’s pathetic, and we cannot let it continue.

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HT to Robert Bateman for North Pole submarine pics.,

That Old Freight Train Is Coming

That big old Democrat health care freight freight train is coming down the tracks, and there is little we can do about it if the Demo’s get the bill ready and can vote on it this weekend, or Monday.  If this happens it will be the biggest heist in the history of the world.

Even with the wheels coming off the Democrat band wagon, they will do anything to get his disaster passed into law.  The Great Satan, Barack Obama, will do anything to get a health bill passed, and the more socialist and government run, the better.  He doesn’t care about the American people.  His only consideration is his warped agenda.

It is only a possibility that the Senate race in Massachusetts will go Republican.  The mere possibility that the Republican candidate, Scott Brown could win is providing the impetus for the Demo’s to rush the process this weekend.

The only thing that will get a Democrat to work on a weekend is the chance to rape the American public. That’s what the Demo’s are all about.

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Photo from Wikipedia.

Here is a YouTube video of a Q&A during the Massachusetts Senatorial race to replace Ted Kennedy. Republican Candidate  Scott Brown is an extraordinarily intelligent, articulate, and fearless man.  He doesn’t take guff off David Gergen who sold his soul to the corrupt Democrat Party a long time ago.

Hat tip to The Jawa Report.

Senator Max Cleland - He Failed His Constituency

Remember way-back in 2002 when people would criticize the creation of the Department of Homeland Security by comparing its probable effectiveness to that of the US Postal Service?  All this was going on during the mid-term elections of 2002, and a Senate seat in Georgia was up for election.

The mid-term elections of 2002 were particularly rancorous.  One of the big issues was the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, which was the result of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and of the recommendations of the later inaugurated 9/11 Commission.  The Commission recommended creating a gargantuan Federal Beauracy from 22 existing agancies.

One of the most contentious Senate races in the nation during the elections of 2002 was the battle between Georgia Senator Max Cleland and challenger Saxby Chambliss.  Former war hero Max Cleland was beaten badly by an electorate that was ready for a change.

The Democrats claim that Senator Cleland was accused of being unpatrotic, and I am sure that there were those who honestly saw Max in those terms.  I simply saw the Senator as getting stupid, and following his master’s orders to marginalize the nation’s security by voting to unionize the new department.

Now we know the results of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and it is not good.  The President and the majority Democrat Congress still want to unionize the DHS in the face of its abject failure, exposing American citizens to even greater, and more numerous threats.  We will pay more, too.

It is time to destroy the Department of Homeland Security, and start all over again.  Unfortunately, the President and the majority in Congress are not that smart.

Things are going to get more stupid, and more dangerous.

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Sure, BO made a good speech the other day about how he accepted responsibility for the lax procedures exhibited by ALL of the Federal Government beauracies in sorry saga of the Ding-A-Ling Bomber.  The whole problem with his act is that it is just an act. Not once has the President of The United States spoken with truthful authority on ANY issue before.

Nobody will be fired for the egregious failures in policy and procedure.  No corrective actions have been enumerated.

George W Bush took the job of President of The United States seriously, and would not hesitate to clean house when necessary.  Under G W Bush we were not attacked for the rest of his eight year term.

Barack Obama has some pretty big shoes to fill.  It is doubtful that a lightweight such as he can do it.

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Many people will not remember Flip Wilson, one of the greatest comedians, ever.  In this video skit Flip is taught an arithmetic lesson my Michael Jackson.  This was the Michael Jackson before the bleach and nose jobs.

Thanks to Ace of Spades HQ.

Here are my predictions for 2010.

1. Alabama will win the NCAA Football Championship.  It they don’t, Texas will. A little prescience, here.
2. Tiger Woods will run as a Democrat for the US Senate.  He will get extra points for employing hookers in his campaign.
3. Harry Reid will be caught in bed with Nancy Pelosi.  OOPS!  Maybe that has already happened.
4. Jimmy Carter will write another book, “How An Idiot From South Georgia Can Become President”.
5. Mitt Romney will convert to atheism because a Mormon just can’t be elected to the Presidency.
6. Robert Byrd, US Senator from West Virginia, will be found crawling on his hands and knees looking for his marbles.
7. The New York Yankees will be in the World Series with some other team.
8. Former Illinois Governor Blogojevich will produce pictures of Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, and the Reverend Wright frolicking naked in bed.
9. Joe Biden will have another drink.
10. Record cold temperatures world-wide will be blamed on global warming.

Remember, you heard it here, first.

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I really don’t want this to be one of those silly, impossible to keep lists of hopeless hopes most people make for the New Year.  Making a realistic list of goals is not an easy thing, especially if you have no goals.

There is a way to make those resolutions, and not build in the inevitable failure most do while juicing it up during the holidays.

Here it goes:

• I will get a job this year.  (Honest, honey, I will really try to do this. It may be that I need to go to school another couple of years before I can get one, but, I will not let this keep me from trying, a little.)
• I will lose 50 pounds this year.  This divides out to over 4 pounds a month.  Maybe I am being a little agressive, so I will leave myself an out by keeping the option of adjusting this goal as the year passes.
• I will not pick my nose in front of my grandson. I will wait until his back is turned.
• I will not write more than a hundred three-hundred blogs excoriating President Obama, even if he makes it easy by doing goofy things.
• I will be a better husband. I will be a better husband.  I will be a better husband.
• I will be a nicer dog owner.  I will not yell at the mutt for doing his dirty on the floor.  I reserve the right to spontaneously cancel this resolution.

There, now.  That wasn’t so hard.  The secret is to leave yourself an out, and not get serious about this stuff.

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