James Randerson – “More than half of US drug safety studies never see the light of day”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/23/clinical.trials

More than half of US drug safety studies never see the light of day
Only 43% of the evidence of safety and efficacy that the US Food and Drug Administration uses to approve drugs is published in scientific journals. The authors of the survey say this amounts to “scientific misconduct”

James Randerson | September 23 2008

The results of more than half of all clinical trials that demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of new drugs are not published within five years of the drug going on the market, according to an analysis of 90 drugs approved by US regulators between 1998 and 2000.

The researchers, who traced the publication or otherwise of 909 separate clinical trials in the scientific literature, wrote that the failure of drug companies to publish the evidence relating to new medicines amounted to “scientific misconduct”. They said it “harms the public good” by preventing informed decisions by doctors and patients about new medicines and by hampering future scientific work.

Steve Watson – “Heavy Snow Fall In South Africa Blamed On Global Warming”

http://infowars.net/articles/September2008/230908Cooling.htm

Heavy Snow Fall In South Africa Blamed On Global Warming
Phantom warming still cited as NASA sounds alarm bells on greatly reduced solar activity

Steve Watson | September 23, 2008

Unexpected snowfall and freezing temperatures in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa has been described by so called climate experts as a feature of global warming.

The country experienced its coldest night on record two nights ago — in the spring time.

The adverse weather has shocked and surprised many locals, with forecasters warning that worse conditions could follow.

The snow is part of a continuing pattern of cold snaps across the continent that has also seen unprecedented ice storms in Kenya, resulting in 4 inch deep hail covering the ground.

UK Telegraph – “Futurologist Richard Watson’s 2050 vision: goodbye Belgium, hello brain transplants”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/19/scifuture119.xml

Futurologist Richard Watson’s 2050 vision: goodbye Belgium, hello brain transplants

UK Telegraph | September 19, 2008

If you were surprised by the financial crisis, wait until you hear what’s coming next. Futurologist Richard Watson journeys into tomorrow’s world

After a week when it’s been impossible to predict which financial giant will still be standing at the end of the day, let alone the year, it would seem like a fool’s errand to talk about decades down the line.

These days, if you raise your gaze to the horizon, you’ll find experts warning of a host of problems: melting ice caps, global pandemics, terrorism, the end of oil, meteor strikes, even robot uprisings.

Mark Thompson – “The Army’s Totally Serious Mind-Control Project”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080915/us_time/thearmystotallyseriousmindcontrolproject

The Army’s Totally Serious Mind-Control Project

Mark Thompson | September 15

Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That’s why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing “thought helmets” that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops. Ultimately, the Army hopes the project will “lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone.”

If this sounds insane, it would have been as recently as a few years ago. But improvements in computing power and a better understanding of how the brain works have scientists busy hunting for the distinctive neural fingerprints that flash through a brain when a person is talking to himself. The Army’s initial goal is to capture those brain waves with incredibly sophisticated software that then translates the waves into audible radio messages for other troops in the field. “It’d be radio without a microphone, ” says Dr. Elmar Schmeisser, the Army neuroscientist overseeing the program. “Because soldiers are already trained to talk in clean, clear and formulaic ways, it would be a very small step to have them think that way.”

Dan Gainor – “Networks Wrong On Global Warming Again; Arctic Ice Still There”

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080917152523.aspx

Networks Wrong On Global Warming Again; Arctic Ice Still There
Predictions of open water prove incorrect as 1.74 million square miles of ice survive.

Dan Gainor | September 18, 2008

So much for the media hype about Arctic ice disappearing this summer.

Less than three months ago, NBC’s Anne Thompson was warning ominously of ice loss. “But this summer, some scientists say that ice could retreat so dramatically that open water covers the North Pole, so much so that you could sail across it.”

Both are still with us – the ice and the hype. According to a September 16 National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) report, such predictions were off by 1.74 million square miles.

Timm Herdt – “Global warming may bring cooler summers near coast”

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/sep/11/global-warming-may-bring-cooler-summers-near-not/

Global warming may bring cooler summers near coast
Changing climate might not bring expected results

Timm Herdt | September 11, 2008

For most Californians, one effect of global warming will be the opposite of what they might expect: cooler summer days.

In the first localized study of temperature changes in California, a San Jose State meteorology professor has discovered that summer temperatures declined measurably from 1948 to 2005 in areas near the coast — specifically in the Los Angeles Basin and the San Francisco Bay Area, the state’s two largest population centers.

Robert Bornstein presented his study, which has been preliminarily accepted for publication in the Journal of Climate, at the annual California Climate Change Conference this week.

Steve Watson – “Scientists: ‘Unusual Magnetic Forces’ Caused Twin Towers Collapse”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientists-unusual-magnetic-forces-caused-twin-towers-collapse.html

Scientists: “Unusual Magnetic Forces” Caused Twin Towers Collapse
On seven year anniversay of 9/11 ludicrous theory is disseminated

Steve Watson | September 11, 2008

One article consisting of five short paragraphs in the London Independent informs us that on this seventh anniversary of 9/11 all the remaining unanswered questions about the collapse of the World Trade Center towers can be “explained away”.

Yes, that’s correct, structural engineers, scientists, professors, congress members, victims’ families, first responders, intelligence officials and all the other researchers out there who have poured over the collapse of the twin towers for the last 2 556.69539 days, you may all stop reading, put down your pens and turn off your computers because Sergei Dudarev, of the UK Atomic Energy Agency has all the answers.

Paul Joseph Watson – “U.S. Government Mad Scientists Geo-Engineer Atmosphere”

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4345

U.S. Government Mad Scientists Geo-Engineer Atmosphere

Paul Joseph Watson | September 5, 2008

U.S. government scientists are bombarding the skies with the acid-rain causing pollutant sulphur dioxide in an attempt to fight global warming by “geo-engineering” the planet, despite the fact that injecting aerosols into the upper atmosphere carries with it a host of both known and unknown dangers.

The proposal to disperse sulphur dioxide in an attempt to reflect sunlight was again raised in a London Guardian article this week entitled, Geoengineering: The radical ideas to combat global warming, in which Ken Caldeira, a leading climate scientist based at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, California, promotes the idea of injecting the atmosphere with aerosols.

Melissa Checker – “Carbon Offsets: More Harm Than Good?”

http://www.counterpunch.org/checker08272008.html

Carbon Offsets: More Harm Than Good?

Melissa Checker | August 27, 2008

From Coldplay to Leonardo diCaprio to Al Gore, influential environmentalists are increasingly modeling green behavior by neutralizing their carbon emissions through carbon offsets. Briefly, offsets are based on the notion that consumers can balance out carbon intensive activities, like travel, by contributing to projects that reduce greenhouse gases. Between 2005 and 2007 the market for carbon offsets grew 175%, reaching $110 million (Faris 2007). But just as buying indulgences in the Middle Ages never really erased your sins, carbon offsets rarely counteract your carbon use. Moreover, in some cases, carbon offset projects actually hurt local people. Many experts now believe that well-intentioned consumers are not just wasting their money on offsets, but that purchasing them actually does more harm than good.

Lucy Cockcroft – “Children’s vitamins have no more nutritional value than sweets, say scientists”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/2589546/Childrens-vitamins-have-no-more-nutritional-value-than-sweets-say-scientists.html

Children’s vitamins have no more nutritional value than sweets, say scientists
Children’s vitamins contain such a low level of nutrition that they are little better than sweets, researchers have found.

Lucy Cockcroft | August 20, 2008

Many supplements marketed at the younger generations have only a “tiny proportion” of the goodness needed by children.

Parents have been advised that their money would be better spent providing a healthy balanced diet which will supply a better source of vitamins.

Global Warming Politics – “Cognitive Dissonance”

http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/Entries/2008/8/19_Cognitive_Dissonance.html

Cognitive Dissonance

Global Warming Politics | August 20, 2008

I must ask a very serious and urgent question of our media. Why do you continue to talk glibly about current climate ‘warming’ when it is now widely acknowledged that there has been no ‘global warming’ for the last ten years, a cooling trend that many think may continue for at least another ten years? How can you talk of the climate ‘warming’ when, on the key measures, it isn’t? And now a leading Mexican scientist is even predicting that we may enter another ‘Little Ice Age’ – a ‘pequeña era de hielo’.

Paul Joseph Watson – “Arctic Ice Grows 30 Per Cent In a Year”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/arctic-ice-grows-30-per-cent-in-a-year.html

Arctic Ice Grows 30 Per Cent In a Year
Predictions of “ice free” summer for first time in history completely debunked

Paul Joseph Watson | August 19, 2008

Alarmist scientists who predicted that the North Pole could be “ice free” this summer as a result of global warming have been embarrassed after it was revealed that Arctic ice has actually grown by around 30 per cent in the year since August 2007.

Back in June, numerous prominent voices in the scientific community expressed fears of a mass melting of the polar ice caps, including David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, who told National Geographic Magazine, “We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history].”

“This summer’s forecast—and unusual early melting events all around the Arctic—serve as a dire warning of how quickly the polar regions are being affected by climate change,” adds the article.

Paul Joseph Watson – “Scientist Predicts Ice Age Within 10 Years”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientist-predicts-ice-age-within-10-years.html

Scientist Predicts Ice Age Within 10 Years
University of Mexico expert says lack of solar activity to cause significant cooling that will last over half a century

Paul Joseph Watson | August 19, 2008

As evidence builds of the earth entering a dramatic cooling trend, another scientist has gone public with his conviction that we are about to enter a new ice age, rendering warnings about global warming fraudulent and irrelevant.

Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Mexico states that “In about ten years the Earth will enter a “little ice age” which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity,” according to a report in the major Mexican newspaper Milenio Diario.

Steven Goddard – “Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/15/goddard_arctic_ice_mystery/

Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered

Steven Goddard | August 18, 2008

Just a few weeks ago, predictions of Arctic ice collapse were buzzing all over the internet. Some scientists were predicting that the “North Pole may be ice-free for first time this summer”. Others predicted that the entire “polar ice cap would disappear this summer”.

The Arctic melt season is nearly done for this year. The sun is now very low above the horizon and will set for the winter at the North Pole in five weeks. And none of these dire predictions have come to pass. Yet there is, however, something odd going on with the ice data.

Rense.com – “Rise Of The Rat-Brained Robots”

http://www.rense.com/general83/rat.htm

Rise Of The Rat-Brained Robots

Rense.com | August 16, 2008

A collection of 300,000 rat neurons stops this robot bumping into things.

This is no ordinary robot control system – a plain old microchip connected to a circuit board. Instead, the controller nestles inside a small pot containing a pink broth of nutrients and antibiotics. Inside that pot, some 300,000 rat neurons have made – and continue to make – connections with each other.

As they do so, the disembodied neurons are communicating, sending electrical signals to one another just as they do in a living creature. We know this because the network of neurons is connected at the base of the pot to 80 electrodes, and the voltages sparked by the neurons are displayed on a computer screen.