In an escalation of the annual farce that plays out at the Weblog Awards (cf. Antiscience site wins another ‘Best Science or Technology Weblog’ award), this year we have 4 of 5 nominees in the Science category held by antiscience blogs. In 2010, Des tried to persuade the Weblog Awards staff to reconsider allowing antiscience […]
By Walter Hickey 27 February 2013 (Business Insider) – Sequestration will likely go through as scheduled, meaning that Congress has not acted on the first of three “mini-cliffs” that resulted from January’s fiscal cliff negotiation. The next mini-cliff, scheduled to hit on March 27, will absolutely require action. If events in Congress remain at a […]
By Paul Watson, observer1 March 2013 The Japanese whaling fleet has left the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and is heading north. The ships crossing north of sixty degrees are the Nisshin Maru, Yushin Maru, Yushin Maru No. 2, Shonan Maru No. 2, the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker. The entire Japanese whaling fleet is […]
By Emily Heffling, Virginia Campus Organizer22 February 2013 If Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was featured on the TV show, Are you smarter than a 5th grader?, he would have been out before the first commercial. In his new book, The Last Line of Defense, Cuccinelli has a chapter called “Weird Science” dedicated to his […]
25 February 2013 (Sea Shepherd Australia) – Sea Shepherd Australia has successfully blocked a third attempt to refuel the Japanese whaling fleet, which is illegally operating in contravention of an Australian Federal Court ruling prohibiting whaling in Australian Antarctic Territory. During the process, Captain Tomoyuki Ogawa of the whale butchering ship Nisshin Maru rammed the […]
By Hayat Indriyatno 23 February 2013 (Jakarta Globe) – Major palm oil producers accused of destroying Indonesia’s forests and driving its iconic wildlife to the verge of extinction are now taking their practices to the relatively pristine forests of the Congo Basin, an environmental group has warned. In its report, Seeds of Destruction released this […]
TOKYO, 21 February 2013 (AFP) – Japan vowed to continue its whale hunt in the Southern Ocean after clashes with the militant conservationist Sea Shepherd group, which claimed Tokyo had been forced to end the mission. “We are keeping our whaling programme,” an official at Japan’s Fisheries Agency told AFP on Thursday, denying a report […]
MELBOURNE, Australia, 20 February 2013 (Sea Shepherd Australia) – The SSS Bob Barker and SSS Steve Irwin have been rammed by the Japanese whaling fleet’s massive factory vessel, the Nisshin Maru. The floating slaughter-house is eight times the mass of the Steve Irwin. The Bob Barker and the Steve Irwin were behind Sun Laurel, Steve […]
[“Teach the controversy”: Taking a page from the Creationists’ playbook. –Des] 18 February 2013 By Celia Llopis-Jepsen (The Topeka Capital-Journal) – With the Kansas State Board of Education preparing to vote on new science standards this year, the House Education Committee has introduced a bill asking schools to include evidence against climate change in science […]
17 February 2013 (Sea Shepherd Australia) – In the early hours of the 17th of February, while the SSS Sam Simon was tailing the South Korean owned Sun Laurel, fuel bunker ship to the Japanese whaling fleet, the Sam Simon crew noticed the smell of diesel fumes coming from the wake of the Sun Laurel, […]
