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A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, May 19, 2024 thru Sat, May 25, 2024.
Story of the week
This week s typiclal compendium of stories we d rather were plot devices in science ficition novels but instead are captured from our own small planet present a daunting prospect. We re in a world of trouble, documented day-by-day. Is there a unifying theme to our troubles, and if so what s our answer?
In 2007, Mark Hoofnagle suggested on his Science Blog Denialism that denialists across a range of topics such as climate change, evolution, & HIV/AIDS all employed the same rhetorical tactics to sow confusion. The five general tactics were conspiracy, selectivity (cherry-picking), fake experts, impossible expectations (also known as moving goalposts), and general fallacies of logic.
Open access notables
How much storage do we need in a fully electrified future? A critical review of the assumptions on which this question depends, Marsden et al., Energy Research & Social Science:
How does the Medieval Warm Period compare to current global temperatures? skepticalscience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from skepticalscience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.