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Information Notice for IVD Users 2020/05. Physics & Vertical Causation: The End of Quantum Reality by Wolfgang Smith Reviewed. Top Down.

Physics & Vertical Causation: The End of Quantum Reality by Wolfgang Smith Reviewed

Take Your Masks Off: That’s What THE Science Says – William M. Briggs. If you’re a surgeon and risk getting blood shot up your nose, or snot shot down into the open body, wear a mask.

Take Your Masks Off: That’s What THE Science Says – William M. Briggs

If you’re a painter, working with insulation and the like, wear a mask. Wear a mask if you have an active illness you suspect might be coronadoom. That’s polite. Wear a mask if you are fat, old, diabetic, sick, or are otherwise susceptible, and are venturing to an area which might contain people who are actively sick with the doom. Of course, if they’re going to arrest or fine you, wear a mask when you’re sure you can’t get away without it, or can’t afford the fine or jail time.

Evidence for extreme export of Arctic sea ice leading the abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age. Abstract Arctic sea ice affects climate on seasonal to decadal time scales, and models suggest that sea ice is essential for longer anomalies such as the Little Ice Age.

Evidence for extreme export of Arctic sea ice leading the abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age

However, empirical evidence is fragmentary. Here, we reconstruct sea ice exported from the Arctic Ocean over the past 1400 years, using a spatial network of proxy records. We find robust evidence for extreme export of sea ice commencing abruptly around 1300 CE and terminating in the late 1300s. Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity? It seemed a truth universally acknowledged that the human population had no pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2, but is that actually the case?

Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?

Peter Doshi explores the emerging research on immunological responses Even in local areas that have experienced some of the greatest rises in excess deaths during the covid-19 pandemic, serological surveys since the peak indicate that at most only around a fifth of people have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2: 23% in New York, 18% in London, 11% in Madrid.123 Among the general population the numbers are substantially lower, with many national surveys reporting in single digits.

With public health responses around the world predicated on the assumption that the virus entered the human population with no pre-existing immunity before the pandemic,4 serosurvey data are leading many to conclude that the virus has, as Mike Ryan, WHO’s head of emergencies, put it, “a long way to burn.” Not so novel coronavirus? Box 1 Swine flu déjà vu. History of Science. Experiments. The 0.3% “Consensus”—Guest Post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley – William M. Briggs. Vaguely related image of clouds, which are part of our climate.

The 0.3% “Consensus”—Guest Post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley – William M. Briggs

A major peer-reviewed paper by four senior researchers has exposed grave errors in an earlier paper in a new and unknown journal that had claimed a 97.1% scientific consensus that Man had caused at least half the 0.7 Co global warming since 1950. A tweet in President Obama’s name had assumed that the earlier, flawed paper, by John Cook and others, showed 97% endorsement of the notion that climate change is dangerous: Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.

Top 7 Times Science Has Proven the Bible. Unborn babies MAY feel pain before the 24-week abortion limit, scientists say  Unborn babies may be able to feel pain before reaching 24 weeks, say scientists – meaning they could suffer as they are being aborted.

Unborn babies MAY feel pain before the 24-week abortion limit, scientists say 

Until now, the consensus of medical opinion has been that foetuses cannot feel pain before 24 weeks' gestation, after which abortion is illegal in Britain except in special cases. But two medical researchers, including a 'pro-choice' British pain expert who used to think there was no chance foetuses could feel pain that early, say recent studies strongly suggest the assumption is incorrect. Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the industrial revolution. Thank you for submitting your article "Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the Industrial Revolution" for consideration by eLife.

Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the industrial revolution

QBism Picture Book. New Research: Our DNA Doesn’t Rule Out Adam and Eve. Does our DNA disprove the biblical story of Adam and Eve?

New Research: Our DNA Doesn’t Rule Out Adam and Eve

Many population geneticists say it does. Quantum Theory and Common Sense - Tim Maudlin. Physical theories can open new vistas of human thought, suggesting that the world is not what it seems to be.

Quantum Theory and Common Sense - Tim Maudlin

This situation presents itself as a conflict between the scientific account of the world and “common sense”, a conflict that scientists sometimes gleefully portray as the defeat of common sense. There are clear historical episodes of this character. Beware of Cranks. Aristotle's Lagoon - Lesvos island - Greece. Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Do Not Exist. Y-Chromosome Adam & Mitochondrial Eve: Is Science Confirming Genesis? - All Roads Lead to Rome. First, they said Genesis, Eden, and Adam and Eve were just a "miserable myth".

Y-Chromosome Adam & Mitochondrial Eve: Is Science Confirming Genesis? - All Roads Lead to Rome

Then something strange started to happen ...Evidence started to stack up that all mankind originated in the same place: the "Out of Africa" model. Briggs.EverthingWrongWithPvalues. Nature’s egg and seed plan, by James Thompson. Netherlands Temperature Controversy: Or, Yet Again, How Not To Do Time Series – William M. Briggs. Why Models Run Hot Monckton.et.al. An evolutionary biologist dissects gender theory. The Mathematical Difficulties of Natural Selection. A 2011 confernce held at Cornell University presented a series of academic papers that focused on viewing biological systems in terms of informational questions. The authors drew parallels between numerical searches and biological systems. By applying conclusions about searches to biological information, conclusions can be drawn about how the capabilities of biological systems to produce practical results. The proceedings were published in Biological Information: New Perspectives, Marks, et. al., eds., (London: World Scientific, 2013).

One paper in this volume is Pragmatic Information by John W. An Evolutionary Theory for the Variability Hypothesis. Life Begins at Conception: All the Science Citations - All Roads Lead to Rome. "Human life begins at fertilization. " -Every embryology textbook ever Ever needed to defend the statement: "life begins at conception"? Just in case, I've created the following list of quotes and citations from embryology textbooks.

"Life begins at conception" is not, is not, IS NOT! A statement of faith. Essay 5: Evolution; No War between the Church and Science - Truth Cannot Contradict Truth. “Through his Word and wisdom he created the universe, for by his Word the heavens were established, and by his Spirit all their array. His wisdom is supreme. God by wisdom founded the earth, by understanding he arranged the heavens, by his knowledge the depths broke forth and the clouds poured out the dew.” Essay 3: Creatio ex Nihilo and Cosmology;Science Intersects Catholic Teaching - Truth Cannot Contradict Truth. Fraudelent 19th Century Embryology Still Taught, While Modern Ultrasounds Hidden. The Psychology of Sex Differences – 5 Revealing Insights From Our Primate Cousins. Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory.

In 1943, at the height of World War II, the U.S. military hired an audacious psychologist named B.F. A Modern History Theory of Functions. What is the Hockey Stick Debate About?-APEC hockey (1) Some Works on Evolution Worth Reading. Evolutionary biologists have, since Darwin, held that random mutations are filtered by natural selection to produce the biological life that we now see.

The 1996 Brind Metanalysis. Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics. Lecture Notes in Population Genetics. Notes on Population Genetics. Population Genetics notes. I’m releasing a draft of my population genetics notes from the graduate level course I teach in the population biology graduate core course here at UC Davis. Mars also undergoing climate change as ice age retreats, study shows. Earth isn’t the only planet grappling with climate change, although this other orb doesn’t have much in the way of fossil fuel emissions or a 97 percent of scientific “consensus” on global warming. Sex differences in the adult human brain. It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’ An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals. Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - David H. Freedman. In 2001, rumors were circulating in Greek hospitals that surgery residents, eager to rack up scalpel time, were falsely diagnosing hapless Albanian immigrants with appendicitis.

At the University of Ioannina medical school’s teaching hospital, a newly minted doctor named Athina Tatsioni was discussing the rumors with colleagues when a professor who had overheard asked her if she’d like to try to prove whether they were true—he seemed to be almost daring her. NASA in PMC. About that Heliocentric thing… This is waaaaay too cool not to share about your planet’s yellow Sun. The 10 Memory Tricks Backed By Science. Understanding Genius: Helix Center roundtable video. Steven Pinker, Stephen Hsu and Dalton Conley: Can Genius Be Genetically Engineered? Scientific Regress by William A. Wilson. Big Science is broken.

The scientific objectivity of gender difference. Friday 3 April AD 33 – Lunar and Solar Eclipses as Christ died on the Cross. Rethinking the Lower Bound on Aerosol Radiative Forcing. What "Probably Causes Cancer" Really Means. A New Theory of Evolution. Everything You Should Know About Sound. Youtube. Meet five Catholic heroes of science. File:Observable universe logarithmic illustration.png. An Atheist Questions the Logic of Darwinism (Part 1) The Space Doctor’s Big Idea. Scientists extract images directly from brain. Does Quantum Mechanics Speak to Catholic Teaching? What Einstein Got Wrong About the Speed of Light. The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Gearhead 101: Understanding How Your Car’s Engine Works. The Best Ways to Get to Work, According to Science. The Dolphin Institute - Dolphin Research. Status and the Brain: The Neurology of Status. Give your mind a break with fluid dynamics videos.

Earth is a marble in this scale model solar system in the desert. 11 images that capture the incredible vastness of space. Historical Temperatures - Charts/Graphs. The Modern Temperature Trend. Women's Sexuality May Depend on Romantic Options. This 'tediously accurate' map of the Solar System puts the space into space. Danish TV Documentary Exposes Gardasil Vaccines for Triggering Wave of Disease Among Young Girls.

CBS: Gardasil Vaccine Can Cause Infection With Higher Risk HPV Strain. Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out. Oral contraceptive use is associated with prostate cancer: an ecological study. Christopher Blum Reviews The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science. Researchers synthesize negative-charge carrying molecular structures that can be a boost to future electronics devices. Thoenes Views CO2 Climate. Middle Age Architecture: How the great cathedrals were built - Documentary. The TOF Spot - De evolutione evolutionis. The 97% consensus paper is starting to fall apart. Pregnancy: Weeks 1-4 (Month #1) (video) Upcoming Probability & Statistics Talks! The Climate, Over-Certainty & More!

Oh Good, We Have Consensus About Climate Change. There exists a classical model of the photon after all. Evaluating NASA’s Futuristic EM Drive. MIT physicist Alan Lightman on fine-tuning and the multiverse. Articles: The climate warming pause goes AWOL (or not) Human Children Grow Up So Slowly Due to Large Brains, Study Finds. A handful of girls seem to defy one of the biggest certainties in life—aging. Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits - Scientif. Eight Stubborn Alcohol Myths, Debunked by Science. Fathers of Science.