Opinion Dominion

I am officially too depressed about the state of Liberal politics in Australia today to post. Combined with a lack of sleep from a series o...

Malcolm Turnbull is 100% right. It is electoral disaster looming for the Coalition not just for the nest election, but probably for the nex...

Climate experts debate strategies for reducing atmospheric carbon and future warming There's some discussion by some Cornell guys as to ...

Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk I can't b...

“2012” review : The New Yorker Anthony Lane reviewed 2012, and while not as funny as some of his reviews, it's somewhat amusing: “2012” ...

Observations: Climate change cover-up? You better believe it This take on the CRU email controversy seems about right. I note this in part...

Why on earth would Kevin Andrews think he has any chance at all of being a convincing leader of the Liberals? He has never seemed to be th...

Alternative animal feed part of global fisheries crisis fix "Thirty million tons -- or 36 per cent -- of the world's total fisherie...

Scientists Find Unusual Immune System Activity in Brains of Schizophrenics ....researchers in Sweden and Germany found that recent-onset sch...

I like the way Andrew Bolt posts about a Watts Up With That item which quotes some programmer's comments found amongst code that skepti...

Holger Nielsen of the Neils Bohr Institute, whose idea that the future may prevent the LHC from ever working properly was noted on this blog...

Medical Marijuana - No Longer Just for Adults - NYTimes.com The New York Times reports that: Several Bay Area doctors who recommend medical ...

This ETS-lite deserves to be rejected Kenneth Davidson has been reading the Friends of the Earth anti ETS report I mentioned here recently....

I finally caught up with the much acclaimed (by everyone other than Tim Train ) film Samson & Delilah on TV tonight. Tim, I'm pretty...

What do I think about those leaked CRU emails? Take a shower, a very cold one, excitable skeptics. This summary of the emails (from skept...

Britain's got a new type of attack nuclear submarine, and the best video of it is available via The Independent, but I can't see a w...

Meet Hobbie-J, the smartest rat in the world - Science, News - The Independent I can see a new rat horror film in the making: A rat is impr...

Poor old Nick Minchin, and any other skeptical mates from South Australia. It is, shall we say, not a good look to be jumping up and down a...

World Toilet Day | November 19, 2009 (Sounds funny, but actually quite a worthy subject. I kind of wish that their big demonstration was so...

Charles Darwin and the children of the evolution - Times Online This article is a pretty interesting discussion of the use/abuse of Darwinia...