Science Denial: Recent Episodes

David Allard

Just trying to get some truth out about Climate Change and other scientific Issues. Dr. David Allard, Professor of Biology, Texas A&M Universtiy-Texarkana.

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Lies spread by country leaders result in deaths.

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Better be safe than sorry.

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COVID is still with us even though numbers in some places are falling.

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Short discussion on the vaccines

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Not this year

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Herd immunity

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Testing gives inrlcreases

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Hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment

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Wealthy elites are using the virus to profit from a vaccine.

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This one talks about using Ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Check FLCCC. HTTPS:/covid19criticalcare.com

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Mask wearing is effective in this pandemic. Wear one!

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No worse than the flu?

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There are a number of persistent myths surrounding COVID-19. This is the first.

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A bit of the psychology of climate change denial. Link to full interview of Lewandowsky: https://youtu.be/7FQUsCyLzlE. Article: Lewandowsky, S., Pilditch, T. D., Madsen, J. K., Oreskes, N., & Risbey, J. S. (2019). Influence and seepage: An evidence-resistant minority can affect public opinion and scientific belief formation. Cognition, 188, 124–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.011

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World continues to do little about climate change.

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https://www.csldf.org/2019/10/17/heres-how-science-has-suffered-during-the-first-1000-days-of-trump/

I describe a blog post from the Climate Legal Defense Fund blog dated October 17, 2019 "Here’s How Science Has Suffered During the First 1,000 Days of Trump" Check it out.

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From the Washington Post Oct. 3, 2019

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“Satellites measure Antarctica is gaining sea ice but losing land ice at an accelerating rate which has implications for sea level rise.” WWW.skepticalscience.com

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“Every part of the Earth's climate system has continued warming since 1998, with 2015 shattering temperature records.” https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998.htm

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Another myth perpetrated by the contrarians. Animals and plants cannot change as fast as the climate is changing. Check www.skepticalscience.com.

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The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas.

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Based on an article in Forbes Magazine by Dr. Marshall Shepherd of the University of Georgia and the Weather Channel.

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Models have in fact predicted most of what we are seeing in global change. Check the information at www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm

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When you are looking for evidence of global warming, it is easy to find and is overwhelming. The key indicators of global warming are all moving in the direction expected of a warming globe.

Check https://skepticalscience.com/global-cooling.htm for more information.

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97% of the scientific papers published by climate scientists support the proposition that current climate change is real and human-induced. Check https://www.skepticalscience.com/ and http://theconsensusproject.com/ for more information.

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Short discussion of some of the fallacies of this statement. Check www.skepticalscience.com

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The current cold snap is not evidence that the global climate is not changing.

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Actually the Sun has been in a cooling period during the last 35 years. The Earth keeps getting warmer.

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Yes, climate has changed before but not like it is now and not because of human activity. Check  https://goo.gl/fX1sHU for information from Mauna Observatory and https://skepticalscience.com/ for more information.