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Apparently Jan Utzon, son of Opera House architect Joern Utzon, is a 9/11 Truther:
'"I think it is important that we get all the things on the table, all the different facts, and see what is actually right,'' Mr Utzon tells Mr Gage. ''Because if somebody, they are indeed trying to cover something up, it is good to get it out in the open. Because ( Read more... ) -
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Here is the sort of trenchant good sense that clearly has no place except deep within the ABC website on a blog nobody reads:
Prof Pitman says he and others acknowledge there is much they don't know about how the earth and the climate work; that they have been wrong on some things and that they are eager to test and re-test emerging data. They are ( Read more... ) -
Getting a Rise
That's it, I can't blag about this stuff anymore. Effective after this post, I'm taking the pledge and getting on the wagon. The Australian has rent my mettle once too often. The straw (or, perhaps, straw man) that broke me was this November 7th report on a report by the Bureau of Meteorology's National Tidal Centre on Australian sea levels from ( Read more... ) -
'Total f...wits'
John Quiggin wrote an excellent post yesterday on global warming 'delusionist conspiracy theories' in which he linked to this piquant comment by 'one Liberal frontbencher':
'Senator Minchin came across as a "complete fruit loop" when he suggested climate change was a left-wing conspiracy. "Border control is going along a treat and they come out ( Read more... ) -
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Robert posted a link on Facebook yesterday with the comment:
'Professional liar Casey Luskin moans about the different connotations of the terms "skeptic" and "denier". He correctly explains that they both mean basically the same thing, but that one has esteemed connotations and the other has connotations of willful ignorance....'
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The indefatigable ScienceBlogger Tim Lambert has got around to refuting Janet Albrechtsen's latest misinformation. He links to the post I cited and adds a 2006 CSIRO graph of sea levels that shows a consistent rise during the past 150 years. Furthermore,
Graeme Readfearn (who, like Albrechtsen, works for News Limited) observes
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Janet Albrechtsen has written yet another post on global warming, unassumingly entitled 'Seeing through the hoax of the century'. She says, among other things, this on 'the hysterical claims that the people of Maldives - or the rest of the world - are threatened by rising sea levels':
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This blog gets results!
Earlier this year I wrote a post suggesting that Richard Kelly plagiarised the ending of his Donnie Darko from that of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue. As nearly as I could tell, nobody had suggested this before. So I'm amused to find that the following line has since been appended (not by me) to the Wikipedia entry on Blue:
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Typically daft column by Miranda Devine. Her thesis is that cyclists are the most dangerous people on the roads - which, if not already risible enough, she illustrates with an anecdote about the confrontation between a bike and a bus (never mind that the conduct of the rogue cyclist has anyhow been rebuked by cycling representatives). And she ( Read more... ) -
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When the Australian Communications and Media Authority's draft list of websites to be banned under the Government's internet censorship policy was leaked earlier this year, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had only the strongest words for those responsible:
The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, said the leak and publication of the ( Read more... )