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Female Scientists Report a Horrifying Culture of Sexual Assault

Written by Kayla Webley Adler

Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they’re in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry.” That’s what British biochemist and Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt told an audience at the World Conference of Science Journalists just two years ago.

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2017: So, What’s Been Achieved?

Written by PSI staff

Now that 2017 has come and gone, we wanted to remind you, our faithful supporters, of important achievements at Principia Scientific International (PSI) during the year. Please take a few moments to read our seasonal message and give generously, to ensure 2018 is even better.

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Everyone Should Read What Galileo Wrote Part 2

Written by Dr Jerry L Krause

Why should everyone read what Galileo wrote?  To see what Galileo pondered.

Part 2 is the result of James McGinn’s comments to the previous posting—Everyone Should Read What Galileo Wrote!!!  (https://principia-scientific.org/everyone-should-read-what-galileo-wrote/)  If one first reads McGinn’s comments, one might see how what Galileo pondered so long ago might apply to them.

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University of Texas researchers recreate moon’s magma ocean

Written by Jennifer Lui

New research from the Jackson School of Geosciences illuminates the history of the moon’s landscape.  In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team of researchers from UT’s Jackson School of Geosciences discovered why the moon’s crust is composed of one mineral.

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Toxicity, Fires & the Green Electric Power Lie

Written by John O'Sullivan

Mass media’s love affair with cell batteries, as an environmental solution to everything, is creating a new mass delusion. Battery-power gives life to every high tech gadget from smart phones to electric cars. We are told to embrace this greener, cleaner energy. But the spin often masks the worryingly deadly dangers.

Growing evidence shows that as manufacturers respond to pressures to make ever thinner, lighter batteries,  increased incidents of injuries and deaths from spontaneous combustion suggests consumer safety is being compromised.  Fingers have been pointed at China, with accusations of a “Sloppy” battery industry.

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Scientist Faces Criminal Charges Because Environmentalists Didn’t Like His Work

Written by Michael Bastasch

A prominent glaciologist is facing criminal charges in Argentina after he released a glacier survey that angered environmental activists because it didn’t result in the closing of a gold mine.

A federal judge charged Ricardo Villalba, who headed the Institute of Snow, Ice and Environmental Research (IANIGLA), with “abusing his authority and violating his duty as a civil servant,” Nature.com reported.

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Don’t fear the population explosion – human ingenuity will feed us all

Written by Chelsea Follett and Tirzah Duren

Tom Hanks – of all people  – this time last year, was discussing overpopulation on NBC’s Today show. He was doing it to promote his upcoming movie, Inferno, which is all about an overpopulation crisis. The actor claimed that we will have too many people “in an instant” and that the planet will be unable to support them. This is not a new idea. It dates back to the late 1700s, when Thomas Robert Malthus feared that large population would exhaust Earth’s resources and result in mass poverty and starvation.

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7 New Studies Show Large Parts Of Globe Cooling!

Written by Pierre L. Gosselin

Recently I wrote about 7 signs showing that the earth has been cooling and likely will continue to cool.

To back this up, Kenneth Richards commented in a reply that this year has seen 7 new peer-reviewed papers that show us that the earth’s surface temperature at the poles and elsewhere has been cooling since about a decade. What’s worrisome is that the southern hemisphere surface is mostly ocean.

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Dying Polar Bear Story Another Example Of Climate Porn

Written by Dr Susan J Crockford

We finally have this year’s example of the new fad of claiming every polar bear that died of starvation (or on its way to starving to death) — and caught on film — is a victim of climate change: a young bear on Somerset Island near Baffin Island, Nunavut filmed in August during its last angonizing hours by members of an activist conservation organization called SeaLegacy.

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Drinking Cold Buds on Mars?

Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser

Why not just take the next rocket to that holiday resort there? Sure, it’s a long journey but the vistas are breath-taking. In fact, not just the vistas, the atmosphere too!

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Tunnel Vision on CO2-driven Greenhouse Gas Effect

Written by Hans Schreuder (using original work by Dr Martin Hertzberg & Carl Brehmer)

Empirical evidence does not support the claim that anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions cause global warming and/or climate change. We suggest that without adequately proven evidence being demonstrated – should it exist in the first place – such a conclusion can not be adduced from the facts.

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