Chris Guest

Mega Focus Today: Peter Little attempts to interpret NSW Health statistics

Graeme Little Né Peter Pope - known to many of us by his Facebook identity of "Peter Little" styles himself as Australia's Pandemic Lawyer. Peter has recently been fascinated by the COVID-19 statistics that the NSW Health department is publishing. It turns out that

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Vaccines statistics in the cognitive quagmire of social media

This week I tried to post some sensible information on a Facebook group that seems to be overwhelmed by COVID-19 misinformation. I got a response from someone who was convinced

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Review: Ian Plimer - How to get Expelled from School

How to get Expelled from School - A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters By Ian Plimer Connor Court, A$29.95 Capitalising on the popular success of his previous book, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science, Professor Ian

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Review: Howard Friel - The Lomborg Deception

The Lomborg Deception:Setting the Record Straight About GlobalWarming By Howard Friel Yale University Press, A$47.95 Bjørn Lomborg has come to prominence as the author of several books such as The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, which claim to give a calm

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Review - Garth Partridge - The Climate Caper

The Climate Caper By Professor Garth Paltridge Connor Court, A$24.95 The popular science shelves of our bookshops are brimming with books on climate change. Usually their authors either regurgirate the establishment views of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) or strive to supplant it

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Review: Ian Plimer - Heaven and Earth

Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth has been a long awaited contribution to the discussion of climate change and the attribution of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).

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Review: Roger Penrose - The Road to Reality

I have read many popular books on mathematics that surpass The Road to Reality in comprehensibility, though few authors have had the audacity to attempt such a vast and comprehensive tract as this.

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Review: Bill Chalker - The Oz Files

The Oz Files is a brief compendium of Australasian UFO sightings that attempts to examine these phenomena with an ‘open mind’. The author, Bill Chalker, has studied UFO accounts since the 1970s and now coordinates an organisation called The UFO Investigation Centre.

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Bjorn Lomborg and the 500 lifesaving interventions

Originally published as "Environmental Skepticism" in the Skeptic - 2002 - Vol. 22 No. 2, page 62. I recently read Bjorn Lomborg’s TheSkeptical Environmentalist and was sufficiently impressed by his detailed analysis that I made the effort to obtain some of