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Post by drwu on Aug 2, 2019 19:37:54 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Aug 2, 2019 20:01:28 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Aug 2, 2019 20:04:13 GMT
Hmmm..... Who should I believe..... The laws of physics or "NaturalNews"? Wikipedia
Natural News (formerly NewsTarget, which is now a separate sister site) is a conspiracy theory and fake news website[2] that sells various dietary supplements, and promotes alternative medicine, controversial nutrition and health claims,[3] fake news,[4][5][6] and various conspiracy theories,[7] such as "chemtrails",[2] chemophobic claims (including the purported dangers of fluoride in drinking water,[8] anti-perspirants, laundry detergent, monosodium glutamate, aspartame), and purported health problems caused by allegedly "toxic" ingredients in vaccines,[3][2] including the now-discredited link to autism.[9] It has also spread conspiracy theories about the Zika virus allegedly being spread by genetically modified mosquitoes[10] and purported adverse effects of genetically modified crops, as well as the farming practices associated with and foods derived from them.[11]
The site's founder, Michael Allen "Mike" Adams, was the subject of controversy after posting a blog entry implying a call for violence against proponents of GMO foods, and then allegedly creating another website with a list of names of alleged supporters. He has been accused of using "pseudoscience to sell his lies".[12]Adams has described vaccines as "medical child abuse".[13]
Characterized as a "conspiracy-minded alternative medicine website", Natural News has approximately 7 million unique visitors per month.[14]
Founder
Michael Allen "Mike" Adams (born 1967 in Lawrence, Kansas)[15] is the founder and owner of Natural News. According to his own website his interest in alternative nutrition was sparked by developing type II diabetes at the age of 30 and "completely curing" himself using natural remedies. He is a raw foods enthusiast and holistic nutritionist. He claims to eat no processed foods, dairy, sugar, meat from mammals or food products containing additives such as monosodium glutamate (MSG). He also says he avoids use of prescription drugs and visits to Western medical doctors.[16]
Adams has endorsed conspiracy theories surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill,[17] and those involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.[18] He has endorsed Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business, a movie about Stanislaw Burzynski.[19] Steven Novella characterizes Adams as "a dangerous conspiracy-mongering crank".[8] Adams has also written a favorable review of the pseudoscientific film House of Numbers on Natural News, which is reprinted on the film's website.[20] Adams has also endorsed the books of conspiracy theorist Jim Marrs.[21]
Adams has made music videos expressing similar viewpoints as the articles posted on his website, such as opposition to the swine flu vaccine.[22] He recorded a rap song "Just Say No to GMO!" that featured spoken lines from Jeffrey M. Smith.[23]
Criticism and controversies
Writing in the journal Vaccine, Anna Kata identified Natural News as one of numerous websites spreading "irresponsible health information".[24] According to John Banks, Adams uses "pseudoscience to sell his lies" and is "seen as generally a quack and a shill by science bloggers."[12] One such blogger, David Gorski of ScienceBlogs, called Natural News "one of the most wretched hives of scum and quackery on the Internet," and the most "blatant purveyor of the worst kind of quackery and paranoid anti-physician and anti-medicine conspiracy theories anywhere on the Internet",[25] and a one-stop-shop for "virtually every quackery known to humankind, all slathered with a heaping, helping of unrelenting hostility to science-based medicine and science in general."[14] Peter Bowditch of the website Ratbags commented about the site.[26] Steven Novella of NeuroLogica Blog called NaturalNews "a crank alt med site that promotes every sort of medical nonsense imaginable." Novella continued: "If it is unscientific, antiscientific, conspiracy-mongering, or downright silly, Mike Adams appears to be all for it – whatever sells the "natural" products he hawks on his site."[3]
Individuals who commented about Adams' website include astronomer and blogger Phil Plait,[27] PZ Myers,[28] and Mark Hoofnagle.[29]Brian Dunning listed it as #1 on his "Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites" list.[30] Adams is listed as a "promoter of questionable methods" by Quackwatch.[31] Robert T. Carroll at The Skeptic's Dictionary said, "Natural News is not a very good source for information. If you don't trust me on this, go to Respectful Insolence or any of the other bloggers on ScienceBlogs and do a search for "Natural News" or "Mike Adams" (who is Natural News). Hundreds of entries will be found and not one of them will have a good word to say about Mike Adams as a source."[32]
According to The Atlantic, Natural News is one of the most prominent anti-vaccination websites on Facebook.[2] An article in the journal Vaccine said the site "tend(s) to not only spread irresponsible health information in general (e.g. discouraging chemotherapy or radiation for cancer treatment, antiretrovirals for HIV, and insulin for diabetes), but also have large sections with dubious information on vaccines."[24]
After Patrick Swayze's death in 2009, Adams posted an article in which he remarked that Swayze, in dying, "joins many other celebrities who have been recently killed by pharmaceuticals or chemotherapy." Commentators of Adams' article on Patrick Swayze included bloggers such as David Gorski[33] and Phil Plait, the latter of whom called Adams' commentary "obnoxious and loathsome."[34] When Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy in May 2013 because she had a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, Adams stated that "Countless millions of women carry the BRCA1 gene and never express breast cancer because they lead healthy, anti-cancer lifestyles based on smart nutrition, exercise, sensible sunlight exposure and avoidance of cancer-causing chemicals." Gorski called the article "vile" and noted that Adams had written similarly themed articles about the death of Michael Jackson, Tony Snow, and Tim Russert.[35]
In February 2014, Brian Palmer, writing in the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Illinois, criticized the site's promotion of alternative medicine treatments, such as bathing in Himalayan salt and eating Hijiki seaweed, and referred to the claims Natural News made about their efficacy as "preposterous."[36] In August 2014, Nathanael Johnson, writing for Grist, dismissed Natural News as "simply not credible" and as "nothing but a conspiracy-theory site."[37]
On August 11, 2014, Natural News published a blog post promoting a homeopathic treatment for Ebola, which was met with harsh criticism from several commentators, and was taken down later that day.[38] In a statement on the article, NaturalNews said that the blogger who posted the article, Ken Oftedal, was "under review" and that they did not condone anyone interacting with Ebola.[39] However, as of August 20, 2014, the site was still featuring an article written by Adams promoting the use of herbal medicines to treat Ebola.[40] In an article about "fake Ebola cures", Adams was criticized for arguing that herbs could prove effective as an Ebola treatment.[41]
On December 8, 2016, Michael V. LeVine, writing in Business Insider, criticized the site as part of a scientific fake news epidemic: "Snake-oil salesmen have pushed false cures since the dawn of medicine, and now websites like Natural News flood social media with dangerous anti-pharmaceutical, anti-vaccination and anti-GMO pseudoscience that puts millions at risk of contracting preventable illnesses."[5]
On February 22, 2017, Google delisted about 140,000 pages on Natural News, removing it from search results.[42] It was returned soon after.[43] The following year, on March 3, 2018, YouTube removed Natural News' video channel for terms of service violations, effectively removing its library of videos from the site.[44] The channel was subsequently reinstated and the videos returned.
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Post by swamprat on Aug 3, 2019 1:35:26 GMT
Hee hee! Media Bias Fact Check
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence (Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact checked on a per article basis. Please note sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source. See all Questionable sources.
Overall, we rate the American Thinker, Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of conspiracy theories/pseudoscience, use of poor sources and failed fact checks.
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Reasoning: Extreme Right, Conspiracy, Propaganda, Lack of Ownership Transparency
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 45/180
History
American Thinker is a conservative news and opinion blog, founded in 2003 by Thomas Lifson (He writes frequently for the conspiracy site The Liberty Beacon) and Health Care consultant Richard Baehr (he also writes frequently for PJ Media, Jewish Policy Center, and Israel Hayom). Both Liftson and Baehr are Kenyon Collage Alumni. According to an interview with Richard Baehr, he originally launched the website as a forum: “I think we have one of the most thoughtful online forums out there,” Thomas Lifson is currently the Editor and Publisher of the site.
Funded by / Ownership
The American Thinker does not disclose who owns the website. The website is funded through donations and online ads, as well as offering an “ad-free experience for a small fee.”
Analysis / Bias
American Thinker consist of two sections, one is articles and the other one is blog. You can check out their archives Here.
In review, American Thinker uses strong emotionally loaded language in their headlines such as: “The Most Memorable Leftist Hypocrisies of 2017-8”. This article is authored by Robert Oscar Lopez who writes with extremely biased language: “The left is composed of horrible people. Most sane people realize this, even if they have friends on the dark side.” Another article with loaded wording is this one: “The Great Depression of 2019?” Although, they utilize credible sources such as thebalance.com, CNBC, New York Times, The Guardian and factually mixed sources such as LifeZette, Wall Street Journal, Human Events.com, they also utilize questionable sources to back their claims, such as Breitbart and non-credible conservative blogs such as michaelsavage.com.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Thinker has published Anti-LGBT articles, as well as those by prominent white nationalist, Jared Taylor. Further, American Thinker routinely publishes conspiracy theories, such as those by Pamela Geller, who is also on the SPLC’s hate watch list due to anti-Islam positions: Report: Obama said ‘I Am a Muslim’, which has been debunked as a false claim. They have also promoted conspiracies about the Seth Rich Murder and they have published numerous articles that are not supportive of the consensus of science, such as this one: The Hoax of ‘Climate Change’
A factual search reveals a few failed fact checks.
President Obama secretly signaled solidarity to African leaders at the White House using a Muslim hand gesture known as the ‘Shahada.’ – FALSE
The state of New Jersey is currently conducting, or plans to conduct, house-to-house confiscations of banned high-capacity gun magazines. – FALSE
Overall, we rate the American Thinker, Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of conspiracy theories/pseudoscience, use of poor sources and failed fact checks. (7/18/2016) (M. Huitsing 1/1/2019)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 10:49:29 GMT
Search Results for Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky Now the End Begins August 10, 2016 CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE Sources in the Conspiracy-Pseudoscience category may publish unverifiable information that is not always supported by evidence. These sources may be [...]
Search Results for Marric Stephens San Antonio Express-News July 29, 2016 LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to [...]
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 17:19:38 GMT
Ever since the liberal Al Gore made his famous predictions; that because of climate change the world was coming to an end, liberals have embraced the climate change mantra as a means to entice voters to vote for the chosen candidate. In other words, the strategy is to instill a measure of fear into the populace, and then for the Democrats to come to the rescue with a solution (nowhere can CO2 levels be causatively equated with global warming). But liberals enticingly grasp this tidbit as causative. This has never been proven. Climate scientists seeking future funding eagerly climb on to this train for their own future viability so they are actually (publicly) buying into this propaganda. And liberal protagonists take advantage of the subterfuge. I will admit it’s a slick political maneuver. But I would ask that those independent thinkers who don’t subscribe to the mainstream media and liberal agenda think for themselves. Don’t do a Google search. Google is part of the deep state. Even a Yahoo search engine might be better although, Yahoo is decidedly left.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 17:48:51 GMT
Something also to consider. Democrats believe that their form of government, with a dynamic Constitution (yeah right whatever that means, changes to suit their perspective) is best suited to the current United States of America. They will do anything to obtain power to this end. From their perspective the ends justify the means. And if the means means frightening the populace to believe in global warming or climate change, whatever, is politically correct, they will foster that agenda. Because ultimately in their view Democratic control is best for America. It’s, kinda like Hitler knew what was best, a crazed drug-induced narcissist. Hillary had a dark agenda, Bill just wanted to get laid. That’s the thought for today.
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Post by swamprat on Aug 3, 2019 19:09:02 GMT
In my poor old shriveled brain, climate change and it's causes are not about politics; they are about science. I am certainly NOT an Al Gore fan and I definitely DID vote for Trump (and likely will do so again). I also know Big Oil and Coal are spending big bucks to promote the opinion that humans are not causing any change. Politicians and the media are expounding the points they are being paid to expound, whether for or against the premise that humans are contributing to the changes.
I know I sound like a broken record, but screw the politicians and screw the media; study the physics, do the math, think for yourself.
Swamprat out
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 19:39:56 GMT
I have a graduate degree in Marine biology. I have been in places under the water where no person has ever been. Furthermore, I have a top-secret security clearance working for the Air Force. I have worked on environmental issues as a governmental environmental scientist. This is probably more than I wish to tell. Global warming is a canard. If you choose to go down that path you might as well suck up to AOC. Obama and his crowd and Comey are tantamount to a government coup. If you continue to espouse climate change you might as well get in bed with AOC. But I know you’re more intelligent but perhaps led astray to fall for this but I have to ask why have you so fallen deeply into their lair. Actually what does anyone know except from what they get on the Internet. However, I strongly doubt everything I know leads to climate change. I might be wrong, but I know a scam when I see one. So, asking anybody with a semblance of independent thought, toss away this liberal bias so prevalent in the news. It really makes me sad to think how this government has been betrayed. With the liberal bias so prevalent on CNN news and MSNBC news. Even the Hollywood types. So sad so destructive.
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Post by Clifford on Aug 4, 2019 1:19:40 GMT
On the fence. 1.8 degrees f difference since 1880's...?
Not enough to pursuade this amateur astronomer. I don't see it as a 10 trillion $ problem either, yet...
There are various cycles, other causes for fluctuations ?
Too many variables and still unknowns IMHO...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 2:18:33 GMT
Yes some here not under the al gore spell.
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Post by bluefin on Aug 4, 2019 11:47:16 GMT
Al is well and find, he finely put up solar panels and LED lighting, he's living well on the 100s of millions he scammed everybody on his climate change, he lives close to me
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Post by swamprat on Aug 6, 2019 17:56:25 GMT
Right or wrong, the dialogue continues.....PhysicsWorld US risk of ‘heat disasters’ intensifies
by Kate Ravilious | 06 Aug 2019
Tampa, Florida (Image credit: Shutterstock/Sean Pavone)
When it comes to weather disasters, the biggest killers in the US are extreme heat and cold. Many people rely on air-conditioning to keep them cool but this dependency could be dangerous if a power cut coincides with hot weather. Residential buildings in many US cities are highly vulnerable to such heat disasters, according to a new study, and that danger will become greater as climate changes.
Over 85% of homes in the US have some form of air-conditioning installed and almost all new-builds come with air-conditioning as standard. Historically, homes used passive strategies like natural ventilation and thick stone walls to keep cool. The advent of inexpensive and widely available air-conditioning means that modern houses are free from the design constraints of traditional cooling solutions but many Americans now depend heavily on air-conditioning.
“Modern buildings tend to have very little thermal mass, and as a result respond fairly quickly to outdoor [high temperature] forcing when their air-conditioning systems are not operational,” explains David Sailor of Arizona State University.
When air-conditioning fails the consequences can be fatal. For example, the power outage caused by Hurricane Irma in summer 2017 resulted in the deaths of eight people at an assisted living facility in Florida from exposure to high indoor temperatures. Despite ongoing improvements in the resilience of power infrastructure, it is expected that the risk of major power outages will increase, particularly as extreme weather events such as hurricanes and heatwaves become more frequent and severe.
Sailor and colleagues used whole-building energy simulations to study the impact of loss of air-conditioning combined with a hot weather episode in the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the US. In half the simulated locations the researchers found that conditions inside buildings would exceed the overheating threshold in five to seven hours. This means a prolonged power outage starting early in the day would cause stifling indoor temperatures overnight: a critical exposure time as most people remain indoors.
Nine major US cities – Miami, Houston, Tampa, St Louis, Dallas, Chicago, Phoenix, Philadelphia and Atlanta – with a combined population of 52 million people had buildings that could overheat in less than seven hours and remain overheated for at least 40% of a three-day-long hot period. Many of these cities are also humid.
“People in these cities rely on air-conditioning, and a major power outage could have devastating consequences,” says Sailor.
Many of the newer, more energy-efficient buildings do not have better resiliency to heat. The more stringent insulation requirements and resulting air-tightness can make it harder for the building to “lose” heat at night.
“In cities that experience heat waves during the daytime but cool off substantially at night we need to ensure that buildings can take advantage of the night-time ‘free’ cooling via opening windows, for example,” says Sailor.
There are other ways to improve matters too. For starters, switching to energy-efficient appliances and lighting helps reduce the amount of heat produced indoors. Meanwhile, buildings in air-conditioning-dominated climates can be made more resilient with the use of new smart materials and exterior coatings, which reflect incoming solar energy and emit heat stored in the materials.
“These materials make the building much more resilient to extreme heat and also substantially reduce air-conditioning bills under normal operations,” explains Sailor. Incorporating thermally massive materials such as brick and concrete into new buildings can help mediate big temperature swings.
The risk of heat disasters will increase as climate changes and in urban areas will be amplified by the urban heat island effect. Sailor and colleagues say that designers should be encouraged or required to investigate how their buildings will respond to air-conditioning failure during a heatwave, and to meet a maximum allowable rate of indoor warming. And the researchers suggest that better guidelines are needed for climate-sensitive design in general.
The team reported the findings in Environmental Research Letters (ERL).
physicsworld.com/a/us-risk-of-heat-disasters-intensifies/
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