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» 24/08/2018 2:03:24 PM If the evidence in this article is representative of Babette Francis' manner in pursuing h.....
» 14/06/2018 1:46:04 PM Well for someone who professes to be a farmer, I can't believe that Viv Forbes completely .....
» 14/06/2018 1:30:27 PM Commonsense is an item in low supply, particularly among libertarians given Nicola Wright'.....
» 13/06/2018 2:09:02 PM This has got to be one of the more senseless articles I have read in a while. I think it n.....
» 5/06/2018 1:22:07 PM (1) Indigenous Recognition. The Australian Constitution is an Act of Parliament of Westmi.....
» 5/06/2018 10:33:00 AM David Leyonhjelm asks: "Do those earning $120,000 receive $34,000 worth of value fro.....
» 5/06/2018 10:14:16 AM Libertarianism as espoused by David Leyonhjelm is fundamentally inconsistent with democrac.....
» 3/05/2018 4:02:48 PM "What is non-medico doing pontificating about medications?" The same thing Don .....
» 3/05/2018 1:55:30 PM Rosling had a point. But his point wasn't that because Al Gore exaggerated, humans are not.....
» 3/05/2018 1:37:55 PM Not too much new from Don Aitkin here. Cherry-picking examples of research failures so he .....
» 17/04/2018 12:28:35 PM "The US has invaded Syria with significant military force, is occupying nearly 1/3 of.....
» 16/04/2018 3:05:56 PM Viv Forbes clearly doesn't limit his nonsense to climate change. One of the biggest impact.....
» 12/04/2018 1:02:04 PM "Just read your bigoted post Agronomist." Fabulous GrahamY. Although I do think.....
» 11/04/2018 6:58:51 PM Folau has the right to free speech. That right is not being taken away from him. However, .....
» 11/04/2018 12:14:14 PM "In a shameful display of moral cowardice, we’ve shirked our duty to offend." A.....
» 11/04/2018 11:37:49 AM "Interestingly enough the WHO announcement of "Disease X" appeared on the 1.....
» 19/03/2018 12:26:11 PM "Is there life after death?" There is for the insects and worms that eat the bo.....
» 19/03/2018 9:24:01 AM News Alert. Provider of alternative medicine complains about other providers of alternativ.....
» 6/03/2018 5:28:46 PM "agro: A side issue I addressed was curmudgeonathome's false claim that Universities .....
» 5/03/2018 9:07:31 PM Grace data on Greenland Ice Sheet mass can be found here http://polarportal.dk/fileadmin/p.....
» 5/03/2018 8:47:28 PM You really are a dill Leo Lane. This is a thread about the health or otherwise of the reef.....
» 5/03/2018 8:36:44 PM "There were six universities and 13,000 students in 1939, and when I enrolled at the .....
» 22/02/2018 6:43:50 PM This is barely readable as a post. If Mark Christensen really wants to know why evangelica.....
» 16/02/2018 12:41:07 PM You always were a dill, Leo Lane. Research grants are about reputation, not profits. The.....
» 15/02/2018 4:05:59 PM "I see the latest prediction has begun to shift to Global Freezing" I can't see.....
» 15/02/2018 3:08:37 PM "The university and the institutions are making good money from research grants and t.....
» 15/02/2018 2:48:14 PM "No one would have expected that President Donald Trump with his chequered marital hi.....
» 9/05/2017 5:00:02 PM I have just been off to check all the global temperature measures and the good news is tha.....
» 20/03/2017 12:00:11 PM David Leyonhjelm writes an article complaining about people he doesn't like complaining ab.....
» 29/11/2016 11:58:53 AM "Cuba is a classic example of a country targeted for its human rights record. Western.....
» 29/11/2016 11:38:39 AM " you still have nothing to say about US client regimes in the region during the Cold.....
» 29/11/2016 11:35:54 AM I am just waiting for the first climate denialist to pitch on here saying climate change i.....
» 28/11/2016 9:10:55 AM Seriously? Castro ran a hard-line dictatorship where those who criticised were banished o.....
» 10/11/2016 1:32:24 PM "No one has produced empirical evidence to substantiate the hypothesis that anthropog.....
» 10/11/2016 1:21:00 PM Arguably the Liberal National coalition should be more afraid. In the past couple of decad.....
» 10/11/2016 1:08:31 PM That is right McCackie we should only allow people to have a useful education. Once upon a.....
» 10/11/2016 12:07:15 PM Seriously? I have a brilliant idea for you. If you don't want to be advertised to at trad.....
» 7/09/2016 7:19:37 PM Nothing is the same as what runner imagines it as......
» 7/09/2016 2:04:52 PM So Bill Muehlenberg wants to retain the rights of bigots to be bigots. What a completely .....
» 25/08/2016 2:37:15 PM While smallpox can persist in scabs for quite a long time - a couple of decades perhaps - .....
» 25/08/2016 2:07:00 PM I don't see the problem. If Japanese people felt it was really important for them to comme.....
» 5/08/2016 1:36:05 PM "But there's massive increases in autism and food allergies and I wont turn a blind e.....
» 29/06/2016 10:11:06 AM "When reading article after article involving the use of aborted fetuses, it becomes .....
» 27/06/2016 3:52:36 PM The lesson given appears to be that the voting population is far more insular, inward look.....
» 14/06/2016 10:50:38 PM Jennifer, I fully understand the difference between insecticides and herbicides. I mention.....
» 14/06/2016 2:22:16 PM ""A decade ago, there were newspaper headlines claiming dugongs were being kille.....
» 14/06/2016 1:27:46 PM "Professor Ridd would be the perfect candidate for such a position, he understands sc.....
» 31/05/2016 4:31:43 PM Quite obviously science must be broken if it comes up with answers that do not agree with .....
» 31/05/2016 4:10:28 PM This article seems to be more about David Leyonhjelm doing some wishful thinking than true.....
» 31/05/2016 3:36:51 PM John, I think the problem you have is that the conservative end of the Liberal Party is wa.....
» 11/05/2016 12:58:34 PM Quite a silly article really and it completely missed the main issue with standardised tes.....
» 29/03/2016 2:46:26 PM Regardless of whether changing the flag would be change for change sake, the idea that &qu.....
» 23/03/2016 8:07:18 PM Jennifer wrote: "In one of your first comments you claimed that it could not possibl.....
» 22/03/2016 9:38:46 AM "El Nino and La Nina are driven like the tides not driven by winds. The wind is too f.....
» 22/03/2016 8:07:32 AM "If you would like to read more about the historical temperature records for Darwin&q.....
» 21/03/2016 2:00:03 PM So the pause is officially over now? Really this is all just so much ignorance over how t.....
» 11/03/2016 12:53:45 PM Shadow Minister, while many people in the electorate of New England were disappointed in T.....
» 11/03/2016 12:39:15 PM One of the truly strange things to me about Catholic Church doctrine as I hear it from the.....
» 7/03/2016 10:18:38 PM "He may have failed in his responsibility to protect children but he cannot fail as a.....
» 7/03/2016 6:50:55 PM Sorry, you are not going to be able to whitewash George Pell. It would indeed be a massive.....
» 8/02/2016 3:29:41 AM Seriously, the whole premise of this argument is completely wrong. Julian Assange has not .....
» 18/01/2016 8:37:22 AM "While there were some initial reductions seen in herbicide use in the corn, cotton a.....
» 14/01/2016 10:01:55 AM "I have always had the opinion that genetically modifying a food stuff to enable more.....
» 12/01/2016 12:30:52 PM "We're all told that vaccines are safe and effective. By your own admissions, you bot.....
» 8/01/2016 1:26:00 PM Given Di Natale's comments on other science-based issues (vaccinations for example), this .....
» 23/12/2015 1:55:36 PM Amanda Vanstone completely fails to recognise that the reasons for the disquiet among the .....
» 23/12/2015 1:31:25 PM Thank you Babette, you have given me the opportunity to once again completely disagree wit.....
» 22/12/2015 4:18:31 PM "And now the govmt prefers to increase the price f healthy food choices rather than d.....
» 22/12/2015 3:03:01 PM To add something to Stezza’s comment, researchers who conduct medical research using anima.....
» 15/12/2015 1:35:27 PM "Well clearly Agronomist prefers the ad hom to actually addressing any substantive is.....
» 14/12/2015 8:11:01 PM "So tell us Agronomist, at what point do you think the embryo achieves personhood and.....
» 14/12/2015 9:50:21 AM Seems like Babette Francis is up to her usual nonsense here. The whole Planned Parenthood .....
» 23/10/2015 1:25:29 PM Compton is clearly over-enthusiastic and I doubt his desire will arrive soon. The reality.....
» 16/03/2015 12:24:40 PM "OK you got me! So what do I do? Put in a hive to increase bee numbers or kill all b.....
» 16/03/2015 9:44:46 AM Honeybees are alien to Australia and have had significant impacts on the pollination of na.....
» 12/03/2015 9:24:37 PM So if people had the right to bear concealed weapons, would criminals stop conducting crim.....
» 9/02/2015 4:01:32 PM "The reason that science cannot give us a complete description of reality is that it .....
» 4/02/2015 2:58:30 PM What a strange article. Rather than increasing taxes, one solution to greater revenue bas.....
» 4/02/2015 11:55:55 AM GrahamY, I am impressed that you asked voters whether they were voting against the governm.....
» 3/02/2015 12:32:26 PM "They wanted to scare the government, not sack it..." I am astonished that suc.....
» 29/01/2015 3:19:47 PM Are we in a time warp? The comments are dated from before the article. Don't tell Arjay......
» 27/01/2015 2:18:59 PM Bit of history revision going on here. I seem to remember a time when John Gorton was dum.....
» 27/01/2015 12:52:31 PM Stroke of genius by Tony Abbott. No-one is talking about the budget now......
» 7/01/2015 1:28:44 PM Absolutely correct Loudmouth. There was a pause in the increase in temperatures in Austral.....
» 7/01/2015 11:29:06 AM Another technically wrong post from Viv Forbes. This seems to be the trend on OLO, those w.....
» 5/01/2015 8:07:33 PM This is the sort of article that Arjay would write......
» 9/12/2014 6:52:47 AM It seems to me Emperor Julian that you are demanding the right to remain ignorant. I will.....
» 8/12/2014 8:17:51 AM So Arjay, the reason you know this legislative bill opens the door to preemptive strikes o.....
» 7/12/2014 5:31:57 PM Anyone interested can read the full text of the bill here https://www.congress.gov/bill/11.....
» 5/12/2014 1:46:54 PM Yuyutsu wrote: "If they take an animal-gene and place it in a carrot, and those carr.....
» 1/12/2014 7:08:33 PM Neils Harritt didn't lead any investigation in the collapse of the building. What he did w.....
» 1/12/2014 1:49:34 PM For Arjay to ponder. Why WTC buildings collapsed: http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/peop.....
» 1/12/2014 1:01:02 PM I am not sure that I really agree with some of the premises put forward in this article. G.....
» 20/11/2014 12:03:33 PM Tony Abbott is going to look like a genius after he has called on the world to set "s.....
» 12/11/2014 2:37:26 PM What a sad, simplistic piece of writing. Vallianatos is another in the long-line of well-.....
» 5/11/2014 12:42:18 PM Bruce, to be fair to Tony Abbott, WWI did shape the nation of Australia. The sheer scale o.....
» 3/11/2014 12:31:27 PM Normally, I would not want to go poisoning the well, but seriously Don did you do any due .....
» 2/11/2014 5:24:41 PM Arjay, I know this is wasted on you, but the WHO is suggesting a possible transmission if .....
» 1/11/2014 1:22:16 PM James O'Neill, the claim by Boyle and others as stated by you here is clearly impossible. .....
» 1/11/2014 1:16:52 PM It might help going to the source of the information, rather than playing Chinese whispers.....
» 31/10/2014 1:42:06 PM She is required to look out for fever as a condition of her contract. The potential period.....
» 31/10/2014 12:15:00 PM If you want an Ebola story to get worked up about, you could try this one http://homeopath.....
» 31/10/2014 11:57:06 AM Now that Kaci Hickox is not in New Jersey, there is no legislative requirement for her to .....
» 31/10/2014 11:30:01 AM The CDC is not saying Ebola virus "can travel through the air like common cold"......
» 29/10/2014 1:22:51 PM Good grief Leo Lane, you do realise the 'graph' that Bob Carter relied on to state: ".....
» 29/10/2014 1:02:26 PM James O'Neill, did you follow up the answers that I provided to your questions? Were they .....
» 29/10/2014 9:03:17 AM Spurr's comments were made using a University of Sydney e-mail account and thereby breache.....
» 28/10/2014 5:51:33 PM Jayb, I am unsure whether your ignorance is real or feigned. I am not sure how anyone with.....
» 28/10/2014 4:15:38 PM If John Coleman was an accredited meteorologist he would hold a Certified Broadcast Meteor.....
» 28/10/2014 4:06:35 PM onthebeach wrote: "Suseonline, As I recall it was you in another thread on the same.....
» 28/10/2014 2:52:13 PM Figure 4 is Figure 1 again, sadly. It would have been really useful to see what the compar.....
» 28/10/2014 2:27:15 PM The CDC holds a patent on the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which is not the strain going ar.....
» 27/10/2014 4:19:57 PM Now it is my understanding, and supported by the news report from Sydney University http:/.....
» 27/10/2014 2:23:36 PM From Leo Lane: "Remember, you have in the past given Skeptical Science as a scientifi.....
» 27/10/2014 11:14:22 AM One of the things about EVD is that humans are most infectious while they are dying or rec.....
» 27/10/2014 10:53:19 AM Once again Leo Lane claims there has been no warming for 18 years. Once again Leo Lane get.....
» 27/10/2014 10:26:57 AM Total death toll to date from EVD is 4922 http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137185/.....
» 24/10/2014 3:07:35 PM John Pilger wriets: "Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence ha.....
» 22/10/2014 4:03:34 PM Don, I agree with you that the previous history made it practical to introduce some of the.....
» 22/10/2014 3:47:02 PM That is an interesting appraisal Don, and one can certainly point to previous suggestion f.....
» 20/10/2014 4:02:40 PM AIDS denial too Leo Lane? You could rack up the whole collection. As to the article, well.....
» 18/10/2014 7:02:33 PM “Agro, At what rate did the earths temperature increase in the previous century old mate......
» 18/10/2014 3:11:08 PM Hasbeen, you are such a predictably pathetic chump. I haven't ever claimed bushfires or .....
» 17/10/2014 4:26:18 PM Oh dear. Someone has confused weather with climate again......
» 13/10/2014 7:52:53 PM There is only one medical staff member of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with suspecte.....
» 13/10/2014 7:00:32 PM Ebola is a virus. Bubonic plague is caused by a bacterium. They are not the least similar......
» 11/10/2014 9:42:49 PM The Zaire Ebola virus is not new. It is the same as the 1976 outbreak. There is do dispute.....
» 10/10/2014 8:32:55 PM Connecticut has simply enacted powers allowing the quarantining of any potential ebola pat.....
» 10/10/2014 8:11:52 AM I will let the readers make up their own mind about Robert David Steele and his claims of .....
» 9/10/2014 5:25:29 PM The IPCC drew on more than the three articles mentioned. There are 18 articles covered in .....
» 9/10/2014 5:08:06 PM Robert David Steele is predicting everything is a false flag operation. He has yet to be p.....
» 8/10/2014 1:07:43 PM spindoc, general ignorance is one thing, but failing to read what was written is surely so.....
» 8/10/2014 9:12:17 AM Don, I agree a fair bit about the 2 degree target. It was always going to be unachievable,.....
» 8/10/2014 8:04:08 AM Good grief, Arjay is at it again. But he forgot the best bits: http://www.liberianobserve.....
» 22/09/2014 11:05:31 PM Given the way history looks at the achievements of the Whitlam Government: socialised medi.....
» 18/09/2014 1:49:20 PM Well George, I am not quite sure where you are headed. My complaint about Babette Francis’.....
» 18/09/2014 1:33:03 PM Dr. Bill, I am guessing you mean Burrumbuttock? But you are still trying to argue from aut.....
» 17/09/2014 1:51:35 PM "lets assume that IPCC are right; and that warming (however it was calculated) stoppe.....
» 16/09/2014 8:51:43 PM "Do abortion clinics in Australia have to keep on changing their venues (and doctors).....
» 16/09/2014 8:45:52 PM Here we go again. Take a single measurement and pretend it is representative of the worl.....
» 16/09/2014 8:18:32 PM Dr Bill, I choose to remain anonymous on this site, primarily because I have no axe to gri.....
» 15/09/2014 9:57:43 PM Dr Bill, this quote by Jennifer Marohasy is about you? "Retired scientist Dr Bill Jo.....
» 15/09/2014 3:54:36 PM Good God, what a self-serving piece of writing. I think you lost the plot when you decid.....
» 15/09/2014 2:13:28 PM "I have always been of the opinion that anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in sm.....
» 15/09/2014 1:44:22 PM In my opinion, this article deliberately sets out to deceive. In paragraph 7, the authors .....
» 12/09/2014 4:26:38 PM Is Mise, so there is lawful killing of a human being by another human being? I would defin.....
» 12/09/2014 1:36:24 PM The answer is simple. If murder is wrong, judicial murder cannot be right......
» 12/09/2014 1:33:19 PM Bernard, it strikes me that you are trying to air brush the WCF. The WCF are very clear ab.....
» 11/09/2014 9:07:12 PM Peter Lang, it is barely worth wasting the electrons to respond to you, but because electr.....
» 11/09/2014 7:34:59 PM Well, Don I am starting to wonder whether you have the same problem that John Pilger suffe.....
» 5/09/2014 11:13:19 AM It would help if Kay had actually done some research on epigentics before coming to the bo.....
» 30/08/2014 12:11:13 AM Seriously, how many times does this have to be dinged on the head. There is precious littl.....
» 23/08/2014 8:58:24 PM But Tony153, if you don't label all the 97% of climate scientists that disagree with your .....
» 22/08/2014 9:52:17 PM "It's really hard to resile from position that have been taken up with enthusiasm, an.....
» 22/08/2014 2:45:16 PM In all fairness, attempting to determine up front which ideas in science will pan out and .....
» 22/08/2014 2:19:51 PM Have you ever been to a studio audience program SPQR? To go back to my earlier comment, t.....
» 21/08/2014 7:09:31 PM And I always understood Penny Wong was born in Malaysia and educated in Australia......
» 17/08/2014 8:56:20 AM Joel Brind, when I first referred to Howe et al. I noted that it was not affected by recal.....
» 16/08/2014 1:00:19 PM Very interesting Hasbeen. You know I find it really interesting that in a world apparentl.....
» 16/08/2014 11:39:10 AM "Tide goes out - the sea level drops. Next question. Pete" That is of no help.....
» 16/08/2014 10:01:05 AM "and there is some suggestion that sea-level rise is declining" Only on deniali.....
» 15/08/2014 7:33:55 PM Joel Brind, Howe et al was not prospective in any manner. It was a retrospective study. In.....
» 14/08/2014 9:45:50 PM Joel Brind, you are wrong about the Howe et al. study. It was not a prospective study, but.....
» 14/08/2014 5:52:44 PM Joel Brind, it is all a bit unhelpful if the research you are using cannot be examined. My.....
» 14/08/2014 9:11:56 AM Joel Brind, you keep on about these studies from South Asia; however, a quick search of pu.....
» 13/08/2014 8:44:00 AM Joel Brind's explanation around spontaneous abortions is very obviously wrong. Spontaneous.....
» 13/08/2014 7:51:55 AM Well, George I am not really that concerned about Joel Brind’s religion. What I am conce.....
» 12/08/2014 10:06:05 PM Piece of cake, George. http://www.unc.edu/courses/2005spring/epid/278/001/Krider_Politici.....
» 12/08/2014 6:22:18 PM "Widely agreed issues include the following: Surface temperatures have warmed by 0.8.....
» 12/08/2014 5:43:16 PM I thought this hoary old chestnut had been put to death in 2004 with the publication of a .....
» 11/08/2014 9:04:31 AM Don Aitkin, I am well aware that there is uncertainty in measurements of climate. However,.....
» 10/08/2014 5:48:52 PM (1) I think it is likely that the climate system has warmed, but the data do not allow us .....
» 10/08/2014 4:40:39 PM From Hasbeen “Agronomist if you wish anyone to pay any attention to these wild statements .....
» 10/08/2014 3:13:38 PM I always find it strange how Don Aitkin always seems to be able to find a couple of slight.....
» 28/07/2014 11:37:22 AM A decrease in extreme weather Hasbeen? That must be on another planet to this one. Clearly.....
» 27/07/2014 2:06:39 PM So, imajulianutter you would obviously argue that the extreme heat weather events that hav.....
» 27/07/2014 12:41:04 PM imajulianutter, fabulous lesson. "It is very important to keep in mind that this is .....
» 26/07/2014 8:26:27 PM Array, There is no missing window. It is present in the photographs of the wreckage......
» 26/07/2014 8:09:48 PM Arjay, the argument is that there was a window missing in the wreckage, when photographs o.....
» 25/07/2014 6:38:03 PM Is Mise, the last US annexation was the Mariana Islands in 1947, where they took over a Un.....
» 25/07/2014 6:32:31 PM imajulianutter, the conditions Brisbane experienced on Tuesday night are perfectly possibl.....
» 24/07/2014 4:25:18 PM Joe Loudmouth wrote: "IF this is true, then Russia has grossly interfered in the int.....
» 24/07/2014 4:18:59 PM imajulianutter, it is very easy to answer your question. On Tuesday night: Brisbane exper.....
» 22/07/2014 7:28:08 PM Joe, in case you haven’t noticed there is a war already going on at the moment between Rus.....
» 22/07/2014 5:18:35 PM Most likely it was a mistake. In that there was no intention to down a civillian airliner,.....
» 22/07/2014 5:09:45 PM Well Don has done it again. Mostly he has kept away from the science in this piece, which .....
» 15/07/2014 9:45:40 PM Alex Jones, imajulianutter? You will be turning into Arjay next. Yet again mistaking weat.....
» 11/07/2014 1:09:39 PM Baz, if you have aspirations of being a researcher it is important to be careful about sou.....
» 9/07/2014 11:24:39 PM Are the Oregon Petition. Signed by large numbers of vets, medical doctors, engineers and z.....
» 9/07/2014 1:31:44 PM Ross, I think the answer is very simple. If you don't like the parking charges, don't take.....
» 8/07/2014 2:33:48 PM Jon J, contrary to your claims, Anthony Watts' blog is not a clearing house of all kinds o.....
» 7/07/2014 1:07:11 PM The inequality argument is not really about economics. It is possible to have an economica.....
» 7/07/2014 12:54:05 PM The trouble with Don Aitkin's articles on climate science is that Don does not understand .....
» 21/06/2014 12:15:50 PM Still no evidence from Hasbeen. But what would you expect from someone who completely fa.....
» 21/06/2014 10:51:35 AM Hasbeen rather than providing any evidence to back the assertions, simply resorts to abuse.....
» 20/06/2014 9:10:33 PM "So you obviously don't know either then Hasbeen. The 'university' you envision exis.....
» 19/06/2014 6:26:03 PM ChrisPer, so the ground moves again. It is incorrect to lay the blame at the media. Repo.....
» 18/06/2014 1:32:56 PM Shadow Minister, a quick look at the figure you linked to would illuminate my post perfect.....
» 18/06/2014 12:55:12 PM ChrisPer, when I asked for evidence that activists were creating firearm massacres, I was .....
» 18/06/2014 10:15:40 AM The whole point of the government being involved in scientific research funding is to addr.....
» 18/06/2014 10:07:32 AM Nice bit of cherry-picking Shadow Minister......
» 18/06/2014 9:57:06 AM ChrisPer, so the evidence is a polemic written by yourself? A person who’s expertise is ed.....
» 17/06/2014 5:45:40 PM Good Grief Raycom, Delingpole interests me not at all. The man has no credibility, except .....
» 17/06/2014 5:35:25 PM ChrisPer, if the definition of a mass killing is 4 or more dead, then a killing of two peo.....
» 17/06/2014 9:04:08 AM Arjay, a militia not under the control of the government. What an absolutely excellent ide.....
» 16/06/2014 7:30:11 PM JBowyer, it looks like your math is faulty. The argument made in the article was that once.....
» 16/06/2014 3:30:55 PM Oh dear. Raycom. Taken in by the falsehoods of James Delingpole. This particular one was.....
» 16/06/2014 3:17:08 PM I am sorry, I am struggling to grasp the point of this article. The author seems to spend .....
» 16/06/2014 2:43:52 PM Plenty of ignorance displayed in such a short article. Congratulations David. “The inesc.....
» 14/06/2014 4:19:54 PM Avgas is only used for aircraft with piston engines, so light aircraft and helicopters onl.....
» 7/06/2014 2:32:00 PM OUG is a "Freeman". This explains most things......
» 7/06/2014 2:26:35 PM OK, let’s recap. Data from ABS shows a 3% decrease in total spend on tobacco products bet.....
» 6/06/2014 5:57:12 PM "he has not considered whether there is any information that might have fallen outsid.....
» 6/06/2014 3:44:14 PM So perhaps we can all agree that this was a tobacco industry beat up using cooked figures .....
» 6/06/2014 12:05:42 PM The current attitude of many employers seems to be that they want to pay the least amount .....
» 6/06/2014 11:49:01 AM Actually Poirot is right as can be seen in the latest National Accounts http://www.abs.gov.....
» 6/06/2014 11:03:30 AM What a silly and pointless article......
» 5/06/2014 1:27:26 PM Leaving aside for the moment the sniping from the sidelines, a few fundamental items need .....
» 28/05/2014 1:47:31 PM That's right. Best not to have too many of these scientists. They might start looking at i.....
» 22/05/2014 10:08:55 PM Don, this is not my area, but there are three things that struck me about your article. 1.....
» 21/05/2014 9:48:02 AM Mike Hammer is an engineer. Has a Master of Engineering Science from University of Melbour.....
» 20/05/2014 3:50:52 PM You were expecting consistency form cohenite ant? cohenite doesn’t worry too much about wh.....
» 19/05/2014 10:08:45 PM The Oregon Petition? cohenite has really jumped the shark this time around. The signers of.....
» 19/05/2014 5:19:19 PM Oh cohenite, you are such a chump. You are only embarrassing yourself now. I can claim a.....
» 19/05/2014 11:36:49 AM Sigh. As usual fact checking is not high on the agenda among the science denial community.....
» 15/05/2014 3:47:58 PM I know I really shouldn't read John Pilger's articles, but I own to being fascinated. Each.....
» 15/05/2014 2:54:46 PM cohenite, you must really be smoking something now. Not a single one of those pages critic.....
» 14/05/2014 9:35:34 PM Some mothers do have them cohenite and I guess yours was one. There was quite a lot of dat.....
» 14/05/2014 12:27:17 PM What you write here cohenite really is a joke. Starting with ocean heat content there is.....
» 14/05/2014 9:20:39 AM What a pile of drivel. My understanding of ANZAC Day is that it is to remind people what .....
» 13/05/2014 3:44:10 PM Here we go again, someone with no expertise in climate science writes an article about cli.....
» 10/05/2014 10:48:50 AM "Chemicals are dangerous and we should stay away from them" Absolutely, like dih.....
» 10/05/2014 10:40:28 AM Debbie Garratt “We are not involved in any way with any anti-abortion lobby.” You expect .....
» 8/05/2014 2:29:59 PM “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” The numbers after the period .....
» 8/05/2014 10:04:50 AM imajulianutter, data is available here http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.C.t.....
» 6/05/2014 7:43:43 PM cohenite, what I wrote was exactly the correct interpretation of what the airborne fractio.....
» 5/05/2014 11:20:49 AM Well Shadow Minister, I went and looked up the previous measures and they were enacted as .....
» 5/05/2014 9:27:59 AM This is a strange article containing ignorant arguments. The whole point of plain packagi.....
» 5/05/2014 9:14:28 AM So Murray, Sea Shepherd is bringing "out the truth about what is happening in society.....
» 5/05/2014 9:04:10 AM cohenite, I looked at Knorr 2009 and Gloor et al. 2010 and I remain unsure of why you have.....
» 3/05/2014 1:10:26 PM Leo Lane, it seems to me that you don’t understand how this science stuff works. Science i.....
» 3/05/2014 9:51:57 AM imajulianutter, I was pointing out that if the best evidence you have for a position is “t.....
» 3/05/2014 9:16:58 AM Leo Lane, that link is some of the scientific evidence. I note rather than address any of.....
» 2/05/2014 3:43:04 PM imajulianutter, you must have mis-read that article. It in fact states "But for mos.....
» 2/05/2014 11:42:12 AM http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=16079#279453.....
» 2/05/2014 11:38:27 AM Building 7 at the WTC collapsed on 11 September 2001 after suffering structural damage fro.....
» 2/05/2014 10:23:00 AM Leo Lane, I did once try to take you through the science that is available, but you failed.....
» 1/05/2014 1:23:32 PM I think it is fairly clear that even if decisions were made tomorrow about new nuclear tha.....
» 1/05/2014 9:44:14 AM Loudmouth, that is 0.08 C per decade, so 0.12 C in fifteen years. It might look small, but.....
» 30/04/2014 12:26:41 PM Well Joe, since 1998 statistically global surface temperatures have increased by 0.06 C pe.....
» 30/04/2014 8:49:08 AM So Don, what you are really complaining about is people dismissing what you write as denie.....
» 29/04/2014 5:22:07 PM The Keystone Pipeline is a pipeline that runs from the oil sands of Alberta to the Gulf of.....
» 29/04/2014 11:15:18 AM Don, you are entitled to express your views. Things you are not entitled to are: 1. Being.....
» 28/04/2014 3:05:14 PM "One thing I've noticed about all the Pilger critics over the years is they always se.....
» 24/04/2014 9:29:56 AM In the absence of any data to work from (which is ironic really given Cox's understanding .....
» 24/04/2014 9:19:47 AM Pilger has turned into Alex Jones. Complete with revisionist history and conspiracy theori.....
» 22/04/2014 2:23:13 PM It is quite ironic to see a movie based on a comic-book fable being used in this article t.....
» 17/04/2014 9:51:17 PM “Emitting CO2 into the air cannot increase the greenhouse factor because any impact of hum.....
» 7/04/2014 1:04:37 PM "I was simply putting up papers which critiqued AGW; and alleged internal inconsisten.....
» 7/04/2014 9:55:58 AM http://jennifermarohasy.com/2008/09/ten-of-the-best-climate-research-papers-nine-peer-revi.....
» 6/04/2014 9:17:29 AM In Anthony Cox universe, the definition of worst papers is not based on how bad a paper is.....
» 4/04/2014 8:20:31 AM JBowyer, my impression is that Melbourne is drier and warmer now than when I lived there a.....
» 3/04/2014 12:37:58 PM JBowyer, I am just commenting on what has already happened http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/c.....
» 3/04/2014 9:03:57 AM Dams, cohenite? How are dams going to help when there is going to be less water available?.....
» 3/04/2014 8:55:17 AM You can't even get that right can you cohenite? "In the first case of its kind, empl.....
» 3/04/2014 8:09:32 AM James H Rust, I am not sure when I read so much ignorance in a single post. It may have be.....
» 3/04/2014 7:57:29 AM It is quite ironic to see a movie based on a religious fable being used in this article to.....
» 31/03/2014 11:03:00 AM I rather gather that if the Senate had come up with an answer that fitted Don's ideology o.....
» 31/03/2014 10:46:30 AM I don't understand the premise of this article at all. I know Australia has the Queen of E.....
» 28/03/2014 9:09:43 AM You still haven’t read the paper cohenite. This seems to be typical of your posts. You ska.....
» 27/03/2014 3:01:12 PM "Could a bill of rights stem growing levels of community disenchantment with the stan.....
» 27/03/2014 1:54:31 PM Debbie Garrett, you keep making these assertions without evidence. What is the evidence th.....
» 27/03/2014 1:47:35 PM Have you really read that Meehl et al’s paper? Because the comments you are making about i.....
» 27/03/2014 9:33:35 AM What a strange article. It is almost as if the author believes that doctors are forcing wo.....
» 27/03/2014 8:30:03 AM You must be a lawyer cohenite. Every thing you write is almost the opposite of what really.....
» 26/03/2014 3:20:09 PM So cohenite is now linking to a rejected paper by Stockwell and Cox as some sort of suppor.....
» 25/03/2014 8:05:44 AM cohenite, I was more interested in the fact that Lewis and Karoly had plotted historical d.....
» 24/03/2014 8:15:07 PM You are joking cohenite aren't you? Are you seriously comparing the results of scientifi.....
» 24/03/2014 4:09:23 PM Well David, that is a very interesting take on things. But I would have thought that tax r.....
» 24/03/2014 8:26:06 AM imajulianutter wrote: “All these issues have been covered I depth on previous threads. Ask.....
» 22/03/2014 7:37:58 PM imajulianutter, Your answers in order. Why should we be interested in the DTR of the las.....
» 22/03/2014 4:07:32 PM Let's see. DTR has decreased over the last 50 years. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/.....
» 15/03/2014 4:46:05 PM It is called "clutching at straws". It is once again evidence that cohenite und.....
» 13/03/2014 8:33:25 PM I am more intrigued by the way Hasbeen ignored all the evidence presented showing the orig.....
» 13/03/2014 8:25:51 PM Some mothers do 'ave 'em Mr Cox. You have been telling us at length that there has been .....
» 12/03/2014 6:41:54 AM Mr Cox, I think I will just leave your little calculation there for all to see. Next time.....
» 11/03/2014 6:25:37 PM Gosh cohenite, you are funnier than a barrel full of monkeys. What about some basics. You.....
» 11/03/2014 12:54:19 PM Hasbeen, You quoted "The recently released UK's global HadCRUT4 temperature records .....
» 11/03/2014 8:57:41 AM cohenite, that is not really a log graph, it is graph with a plot of an equation with a fu.....
» 10/03/2014 4:50:15 PM Mr. Cox, I can only conclude you would not recognize a log if you tripped over one. There.....
» 10/03/2014 4:30:10 PM Leo Lane, you asked for some science and was given some. Without addressing or even trying.....
» 10/03/2014 10:30:36 AM We should start with his one Leo Lane http://rsclive3.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-1.....
» 10/03/2014 9:55:13 AM GrahamY I think you are wrong here. 1. The reason I have criticized the figure is because.....
» 9/03/2014 4:34:26 PM cohenite, right on cue proves the point. How simply can I put this? The 30 years is not .....
» 9/03/2014 3:41:32 PM I think there is only one thing to say. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm.....
» 9/03/2014 3:37:04 PM I am not sure why Don thought it was worth airing these thoughts. Surely a Government who’.....
» 9/03/2014 3:11:10 PM SteeleRedux, Viv Forbes can produce any type of graph he wants, but if he claims for it to.....
» 9/03/2014 8:21:09 AM It is worth going back to the first graph in the article to point out its true value. Firs.....
» 26/02/2014 4:58:26 PM The author of this piece railed about how pharmaceutical companies are funding medical res.....
» 14/02/2014 6:32:03 PM With all due respect GrahamY (and I know it is your site, so you can run it however you li.....
» 14/02/2014 1:19:52 PM Seriously Anthony, I don’t know why you continue to bother. Time and time again you have s.....
» 18/12/2013 12:00:31 PM Bob Phelps: “Salmon fingerlings would be made in Canada where escapees may impact the fert.....
» 29/11/2013 7:42:23 PM cohenite, you do make up some excuses. If you wanted to discuss the ARGO buoy data, you .....
» 29/11/2013 3:23:07 PM cohenite, you didn’t disappoint did you. Tell me that you understand the difference betw.....
» 29/11/2013 12:24:02 PM It seems that cohenite just can’t resist displaying his ignorance of climate data. coheni.....
» 28/11/2013 1:26:52 PM Well, here we go. All the old tropes get an airing again. “the actual data series which m.....
» 22/11/2013 9:22:38 AM cohenite, it is not just a case that you were wrong here, but the demonstration that you a.....
» 22/11/2013 9:11:28 AM I always find it odd the way that many of cohenite’s links turn out to be articles written.....
» 21/11/2013 7:27:46 PM cohenite, so finally after denying that the 93-98 preferencing for the ALP claim was wrong.....
» 17/11/2013 8:34:27 PM It seems that whenever cohenite gets caught out with something clearly wrong, he simply ma.....
» 11/11/2013 5:44:30 AM cohenite, I think you need to go back and read Anthony Cox's article again, because you ob.....
» 10/11/2013 4:35:27 PM Agenda 21? Tinfoil hats anyone? By the way, it seems there were only 73 candidates in So.....
» 8/11/2013 9:01:23 AM Anthony, Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. You do have trouble with this stuff. Having demonstrate.....
» 7/11/2013 6:28:38 PM Anthony, you are simply embarrassing yourself now. Firstly, there was no reliance by me .....
» 7/11/2013 11:26:47 AM Well the Abbott Government has made a start on its tax reform agenda it has been reported......
» 7/11/2013 9:09:20 AM Sparkyq, I suspect you, like the author of this piece is making things up. Even the leftis.....
» 7/11/2013 8:51:43 AM LEGO that is really strange. Because I don’t remember a consensus among scientists claimin.....
» 6/11/2013 12:54:56 PM Good grief, this article just about plumbs the depths of burning strawmen. The character.....
» 5/11/2013 11:30:04 AM Sadly, Lyn this is not a particularly good article. There are indeed multiple ways that .....
» 3/11/2013 7:27:40 AM GrahamY: I don’t intend to debate this point any longer. The meaning of attribute is “cons.....
» 2/11/2013 7:30:55 AM GrhamY: to say two things are linked is not the same as attributing one to the other. For .....
» 1/11/2013 2:43:17 PM GrahamY, I did ask before whether you knew the difference in meaning between the words att.....
» 1/11/2013 8:24:03 AM Oh dear Anthony, you are still struggling with this. I know math is hard, but this is dece.....
» 1/11/2013 8:01:57 AM GrahamY: I beg to differ. Nowhere in the article linked to was there a statement that the .....
» 31/10/2013 2:17:54 PM GrahamY: I am indeed suggesting that climate change did not cause the recent fires, but th.....
» 31/10/2013 6:48:07 AM GrahamY, you do know the difference in meaning between the words attributed and link?.....
» 30/10/2013 9:25:57 PM I am surprised Arjay hasn't turned up yet. He loves a good conspiracy theory. I wonder if.....
» 30/10/2013 2:06:33 PM Oh Anthony, will you ever learn to read? My complaint about Spencer’s graph was that he us.....
» 30/10/2013 1:50:21 PM Janama, that document you linked to from Risk Frontiers is not from Macquarie University, .....
» 30/10/2013 1:08:26 PM "Around the world news headlines have attributed the recent bushfires in the Blue Mou.....
» 29/10/2013 4:34:36 PM Jennifer, whether you are right or wrong about the number of days over 35 degrees is irrel.....
» 29/10/2013 10:23:49 AM Oh dear Anthony, you are such a chump. Spencer’s graph given by Don Aitkin was for the s.....
» 28/10/2013 7:20:24 PM Oh Anthony, some mothers do ‘ave ‘em, don’t they? Just because a retired teacher embarra.....
» 28/10/2013 1:21:24 PM What I am struggling to understand is why were we presented with graphs of days over 35 de.....
» 28/10/2013 12:49:55 PM Anthony, perhaps you should read that graph again. You know the bit where it states: “Trop.....
» 25/10/2013 3:26:24 PM Anthony, your arguments are simply all over the place. Rather than correct the wrong argum.....
» 24/10/2013 6:23:59 PM Seriously Anthony, that graph you linked to was in fact an entirely different graph for th.....
» 23/10/2013 6:52:46 PM Peter Lang, I did do my own research. When I looked at Roy Spencer’s graph I noticed a fe.....
» 23/10/2013 2:29:46 PM Peter Lang wrote: "The chart Don Aitkin selected to use is similar to many others wh.....
» 23/10/2013 8:11:32 AM Arjay wrote: "Pericles in my view backs the oppressors on this planet, therefore I d.....
» 22/10/2013 4:48:44 PM So what I want to know is why Roy Spencer in the graph posted used the 1979-1983 average t.....
» 30/06/2013 9:15:05 AM More anti-vaccine silliness. The cherry picking of source material (I mean whale.to of all.....
» 27/06/2013 4:38:15 PM I would describe a climate scientist as someone with research expertise in one of the disc.....
» 27/06/2013 9:00:14 AM "Australian specific data on pathogen prevalence for herds and for individual animals.....
» 27/06/2013 8:49:20 AM Anthony, if you want to disagree with the points I make, you really should contribute some.....
» 26/06/2013 9:21:43 PM Back in 2005 then WA Agriculture Minister Kim Chance announced the Government would fund a.....
» 26/06/2013 8:46:49 PM Anthony, you seriously are a chump. Lewandowsky is not an AGW scientist, he is a cognitive.....
» 11/06/2013 12:24:13 PM Arjay, the three WTC buildings did not free-fall. I am happy to link to the engineering re.....
» 10/06/2013 6:30:37 PM Arjay "Up until 5 yrs ago they denied the existence of of the Bilderberg Group and no.....
» 8/06/2013 1:27:15 PM I get the feeling that John Pilger has run out of things to write about......
» 8/06/2013 12:12:52 PM "sheeple" You a CTer praxidice?.....
» 7/06/2013 12:42:09 PM pelican, Governments get involved because there are health risks. In the same way they ge.....
» 7/06/2013 12:07:17 PM It is not permissible to sell raw milk for human consumption in Australia, because raw mil.....
» 3/06/2013 9:32:16 PM I am appalled by the mis-representations in this article. I am old, so I remember some of.....
» 31/05/2013 6:40:23 PM Anthony, you really aren’t getting this are you? As soon as you have a moving average, som.....
» 31/05/2013 9:06:40 AM Anthony, you really are a chump. “Look at a histogram” Anthony, that histogram has non-o.....
» 30/05/2013 9:36:20 PM You are clutching at straws now Anthony. I will go through your arguments carefully so yo.....
» 30/05/2013 7:27:26 PM Arjay, many of the claims you have made on this thread have been shown to be wrong. Does n.....
» 30/05/2013 7:21:57 PM Anthony, there is no need to apply the chain rule. If you want to know the rate of change,.....
» 30/05/2013 5:15:23 PM "I made a short speech about Houston and Dean's and Phil Watson's papers both from 20.....
» 29/05/2013 9:03:32 PM Arjay wrote: "....why have the courts on many occasions awarded victims of Autism co.....
» 29/05/2013 5:36:26 PM Wakefield's research paper was retracted by Lancet "In particular, the claims in the.....
» 16/03/2013 8:17:07 AM Anthony wrote: “Watt’s OHC yellow line graph; reply to Agronomist above which he can’t see.....
» 15/03/2013 12:44:51 PM So nice of you to drop by again Researcher Ken. Have you corrected your blog post yet? Bu.....
» 15/03/2013 8:15:32 AM Anthony, you are such a chump. That yellow line is not an approximation; it is a bit of cr.....
» 15/03/2013 8:13:03 AM Janama, I had a look at your claims about “the fraudulent use of BoM data to claim Birdsvi.....
» 13/03/2013 7:39:13 PM Janama, you have been sadly deceived. The yellow line is not “an approximation showing the.....
» 13/03/2013 7:29:51 PM Researcher Ken, so nice of you to drop by. My post referred to your blog post, I even link.....
» 12/03/2013 7:07:09 PM Janama, I have a bit of a problem here. Who do I believe? The Climate Commission with expe.....
» 12/03/2013 12:42:26 PM Oh Anthony, Anthony, Anthony. How could you post such gibberish? I see you have posted A.....
» 29/10/2012 7:30:16 PM I don’t know, Loudmouth. You suspect a lot, but the data you pointed to suggests the oppos.....
» 29/10/2012 5:46:58 PM Well, Loudmouth the paper you linked to indicates the difference between traditional hunte.....
» 29/10/2012 4:10:27 PM Acculturated hunter gatherer societies do slightly better than ancient hunter gatherer soc.....
» 29/10/2012 3:49:53 PM Poirot, you forget runner has a book. If it isn't in that book, it doesn't exist......
» 6/10/2012 12:39:52 PM Peter Lang, there is an important caveat to having an open mind. One's mind should not be .....
» 4/10/2012 9:09:38 AM GrahamY, regarding my comment over the selection of papers by Cox and Nova. If a scientist.....
» 3/10/2012 9:29:10 AM GrahamY, one of the things I found unusual about the piece by Cox and Nova is that despite.....
» 2/10/2012 5:34:22 PM cohenite, have you read and understood any of these papers you are commenting about? It re.....
» 2/10/2012 3:55:13 PM Cox and Nova at their disingenuous best. A brief run through the literature cited: Lindze.....
» 20/09/2012 12:31:00 PM cohenite, go on do it. You could even do a Chow test of whether the rate of increase had c.....
» 17/09/2012 10:29:35 PM cohenite, I see you have been hanging out for this post. I am not quite sure how to break .....
» 17/09/2012 10:23:01 PM Somehow I get the feeling Anthony Cox is looking at a judgement different to the one I hav.....
» 15/09/2012 10:18:53 AM cohenite, you astound me more with each post you make. Your knowledge of the scientific pu.....
» 15/09/2012 9:24:13 AM cohenite wrote: “No, it is 13 pages long:” I find it hard to believe you would be so ign.....
» 14/09/2012 10:07:36 AM cohenite, you must have misread Stockwell and Cox. I suggest for punishment you should go .....
» 14/09/2012 9:02:05 AM cohenite, unlike the silly model of Stockwell and Cox, climate models use the known physic.....
» 13/09/2012 9:28:06 PM cohenite, I fear you have little understanding of statistics. Let me break this to you gen.....
» 13/09/2012 9:04:29 PM cohenite, have you been on the kool-aid again? Fancy citing Jo Nova and Anthony Watts as a.....
» 12/09/2012 10:24:08 AM cohenite, despite your protestations the lines on the graph are essentially meaningless wi.....
» 11/09/2012 7:13:04 PM cohenite, is reading comprehension not your strong point? I used 1997, because that was th.....
» 11/09/2012 9:01:57 AM cohenite, I think you would have done better to have read the article and my response befo.....
» 10/09/2012 7:54:26 PM Loudmouth, I don’t know why you expect to see acceleration of temperature increase over su.....
» 10/09/2012 11:59:20 AM Like some others, I was bemused by the press release. The way it is written made it sound .....
» 10/09/2012 10:23:18 AM Loudmouth, you must be squinting again. It reminds me of the old rhyme about the donut. Yo.....
» 8/09/2012 2:49:11 PM Leo Lane, I suspect you mean Freeman Dyson? Now tell me, what is his expertise in climate .....
» 8/09/2012 9:45:52 AM Loudmouth, I wasn't offering you any advice. However, if you wish to look like the village.....
» 7/09/2012 4:27:48 PM Loudmouth, you have apparently still failed to get my original point. But it may not be wo.....
» 7/09/2012 9:11:34 AM Loudmouth, you clearly failed to understand the point I was making. If you want to get an .....
» 6/09/2012 10:28:40 PM A reprise Tony. Q. What do you call alternative medicine that does not work better than a.....
» 6/09/2012 9:59:49 PM Leo Lane, you seriously are not going to rely on the Oregon Petition? The overwhelming maj.....
» 27/08/2012 3:14:27 PM It is funny how some of these memes go around and around. As Carz has already pointed out,.....
» 20/08/2012 2:37:19 PM deadly, why should only those you agree with have their human rights protected? What about.....
» 20/08/2012 9:14:27 AM Stuart Rees must be writing about a different Ecuador to the one I am aware of. The ecuado.....
» 18/08/2012 7:00:34 PM Poirot, you haven’t bothered to carefully read what I wrote. Nowhere did I say that “perfe.....
» 18/08/2012 5:21:14 PM I like the way speculation becomes fact around here. 1. Currently there is no evidence o.....
» 17/08/2012 7:09:38 PM Sven-Erik Alhelm’s expert testimony at the Extradition hearing was in large part discounte.....
» 17/08/2012 2:52:19 PM Poirot, you are conflating several things. 1. Embassy premises must be used exclusively fo.....
» 17/08/2012 2:12:24 PM Poirot, I think a lot of this is grandstanding by the Ecuador Government for home consumpt.....
» 15/08/2012 1:42:52 PM Arjay, I think I have asked this before, Has there been a conspiracy theory that you don't.....
» 29/06/2012 3:23:54 PM John, in case you have never noticed: war is hell. Civilians become collateral damage. It .....
» 14/06/2012 9:40:28 PM No need to panic. There is no spraying going on. What you are seeing is contrails caused b.....
» 8/06/2012 1:54:47 PM Spindoc, have you read the legislation? Or are you just spouting what you read elsewhere? .....
» 8/06/2012 1:29:34 PM <<This is not equivalent because: 1) I never heard of anyone having spiritual object.....
» 8/06/2012 10:29:56 AM <<If a society wants to lose its children to the devil (metaphorically speaking, obv.....
» 8/06/2012 10:19:55 AM I wouldn't take much notice of what Alabama is up to spindoc. It is full of Tea Party Repu.....
» 7/06/2012 2:40:10 PM Arjay, you have it completely wrong. HAARP is not part of a defence shield, it is being us.....
» 7/06/2012 12:02:23 PM "Bodies do not make choices, be they spermatozoa or humans - you and I do, including .....
» 6/06/2012 8:19:37 PM Belly, not you specifically. As Wobbles said, the only accomplishments Queen Elizabeth has.....
» 5/06/2012 4:21:33 PM Yuyutsu, there is no such thing as spiritual safety. If there was, it could be measured. T.....
» 5/06/2012 2:04:58 PM spindoc, even if I accept everything in your post as true, there is simply no evidence the.....
» 5/06/2012 1:58:17 PM Good grief. I think I am going to chunder......
» 4/06/2012 10:03:23 PM Well spindoc, I decided to do some research and actually read what the UN agreed to as Age.....
» 4/06/2012 1:04:08 PM Arjay, have you been drinking the kool aid again? UN Agenda 21 states that the internatio.....
» 11/01/2012 9:19:23 PM Unfortunately it is a silly article. There are substantial drivers for intensive animal ra.....
» 5/01/2012 2:49:11 PM Australia has developed a protocol for importation of bananas from the Philippines. See ht.....
» 1/01/2012 4:50:44 PM I am surprised that the anti-vax nutters haven’t found this thread yet. They are usually a.....
» 14/10/2011 12:50:28 PM The issues with vaccines is that herd immunity is vital for management of the diseases. Be.....
» 14/10/2011 12:29:47 PM Anyone for a super helping of conspiracy theory? Think about it for 10 seconds. What cha.....
» 26/09/2011 9:42:05 PM Claire, did you really write that? Wow, just wow. It is all I can say. Rather than address.....
» 25/09/2011 7:31:15 PM Arjay, there are no sterile GMO crops in commercial production and none planned. The seed .....
» 25/09/2011 7:15:29 PM We should name this effect the phantom of the OPERA......
» 24/09/2011 12:58:34 PM If true, this would revolutionise how we thought about the world. It would not mean that t.....
» 24/09/2011 12:51:41 PM C4 photosynthesis is a very complex trait. Effective C4 rice is probably some way off. The.....
» 24/09/2011 12:47:00 PM This is a really poorly organised article. It is hard to see what the main point is other .....
» 8/08/2011 1:00:31 PM Merri bee, as an agronomist I know that whether yields of a crop are higher or lower depen.....
» 2/08/2011 12:25:27 PM Steve Marsh lost certification for his property because his certifying agency chose to rev.....
» 27/03/2010 5:05:26 PM Protagoras “Astonishingly, user agreements drawn up by companies such as Monsanto, Pioneer.....
» 26/03/2010 3:26:12 PM Protagoras, the public may believe they want to change the facts, but unfortunately the fa.....
» 25/03/2010 6:26:54 PM Bernie, I am not sure that kow-towing to the Greens was big on Kim Chance's agenda with GM.....
» 2/02/2010 1:18:06 AM examinator, if you obtain some real information about farming practices you wouldn’t be sp.....
» 1/02/2010 2:12:21 AM Looks like the first line of my last post got deleted in transit. examinator, I said bett.....
» 31/01/2010 1:39:59 AM rather than one of conspiracy theories. I find tinfoil hats a little uncomfortable. Has i.....
» 30/01/2010 10:52:32 AM individual, with all due respect all crops have some susceptibility to frost. Some are mor.....
» 23/12/2009 8:48:06 AM Yabby, same seems to be true of all of OUG's posts. Sadly it took me less than 10 minutes .....
» 22/12/2009 3:04:38 PM The US has 3140 counties. Over 90% of these have some crop production. So the 200 odd rece.....
» 13/12/2009 9:19:05 PM I always want to put in Admiral in the space for title......
» 11/12/2009 12:24:40 PM Got ourselves a field of pumpkins here. More strawmen than you can poke a stick at. West.....
» 8/12/2009 8:42:23 AM Strangely, I almost found myself agreeing with an article that Helen Lobato wrote. Fortuna.....
» 8/12/2009 8:19:17 AM Wobbles, you wrote “there was research done that proved that the RF generated by Mobile ph.....
» 7/12/2009 5:55:17 PM Great, we are supposed to take a “leaked” report to a newspaper as the “proof’ that mobile.....
» 6/11/2009 7:47:54 PM Laura, perhaps it would help if you went to the sources rather than just accepting the Gre.....
» 5/11/2009 7:21:10 PM Laura Kelly is continuing the same exaggerations given by Greenpeace over the last decade......
» 22/10/2009 4:33:15 PM A search of PubMed identifies very few examples of adverse health outcomes from folic acid.....
» 16/10/2009 4:14:59 PM Helen, Rosemary Stanton (and indeed yourself) should know that it is not necessary to cons.....
» 14/10/2009 1:57:28 PM "Store manager Hussein Kaiser dumped the music, which he said was chosen by young sal.....
» 9/10/2009 8:22:12 PM Henry the Navigator......
» 7/09/2009 3:57:56 PM Copernicus and Galileo were men of their times and influenced of course by prevailing thou.....
» 7/09/2009 2:22:52 PM I thought it was universally acknowledged that James Buchanan was the worst US President e.....
» 23/07/2009 8:49:17 PM Madeleine, you will need to ask the seed companies that question. It depends how they make.....
» 22/07/2009 9:39:08 AM Supermarkets have an increasing level of power in the food industry. Farmers have always b.....
» 21/07/2009 8:53:08 PM Thanks Protagoras for the information about Maarten Stapper. The online forum was not terr.....
» 21/07/2009 8:47:50 PM Yabby, there have been family planning initiatives in Africa for nearly 40 years now. Fami.....
» 21/07/2009 12:33:48 PM Yabby, population growth is a major issue in Africa, but offering family planning alone is.....
» 20/07/2009 8:13:11 PM Protagoras, surfactants are added to glyphosate formulations to stop the drops bouncing of.....
» 20/07/2009 9:50:14 AM Kesha, the reason that the scientific evidence is at hand is that these questions have bee.....
» 19/07/2009 1:18:46 PM Lynbee, your evidence: 1) Australian herbicide label http://search.nufarm.com.au/default......
» 18/07/2009 6:27:22 PM Protagorus, It actually doesn’t really matter that much what concentrations produced an ef.....
» 17/07/2009 7:37:10 PM Protagoras, I have heard someone tell me that all Australian farmers spray their fields w.....
» 17/07/2009 1:30:08 PM Divergence, the major causes of higher food prices in 2007 was supply could not meet deman.....
» 17/07/2009 12:55:39 PM Greg, what a load of piffle. The ‘GM will feed the world myth’ is a strawman created by th.....
» 15/07/2009 1:21:33 PM It still means Australia could potentially afford to double its population without being i.....
» 14/07/2009 5:34:07 PM Peace, in effect Australia does share testing facilities with the EU, at least as far as h.....
» 14/07/2009 5:31:35 PM I was rather hoping this was going to get into what needs to happen in order to maintain f.....
» 13/07/2009 2:31:02 PM Kellie, is reading comprehension not your strong suit? Australia has two guidelines for at.....
» 14/06/2009 6:06:08 PM You did ask for that Max with that opening post.....
» 2/06/2009 7:38:26 PM Protagoras, like I said you need to look at the facts. There is nothing per se wrong with .....
» 1/06/2009 4:09:29 PM Supertootth, I am guessing the real reason is that people don't brush and floss their teet.....
» 1/06/2009 4:04:10 PM Protagorus, it is always important to look at the facts and not just accept the ones that .....
» 29/05/2009 7:32:53 PM Protagorus, same paper. Nothing is changed, bathing cells in Roundup formulations has zero.....
» 29/05/2009 9:08:59 AM Protagoras, I suggest you go back and read the abstract again. It uses the following abbre.....
» 27/05/2009 7:28:04 PM Unfortunately another piece where well fed westerners want to tell poor third world framer.....
» 23/04/2009 6:22:20 PM Cold fusion unfortunately is not a reality and unlikely to occur. Although there is some i.....
» 16/04/2009 9:58:17 AM God One Under, I said life is chemistry, that is a subset of chemistry, not that chemistry.....
» 15/04/2009 10:06:08 PM One God Under, all life is just chemistry......
» 14/04/2009 8:38:44 PM Under One God, the Urey-Miller experiment in 1953 was one of the most famous experiments i.....
» 13/04/2009 2:22:23 PM Thanks for the link eftfnc. It is too late for me now, I (or more correctly, my wife as wh.....
» 13/04/2009 2:20:40 PM UOG<<yes..but we are talking about this star, and these planets[and moons]of which b.....
» 12/04/2009 2:59:30 PM There are millions of stars out there and millions of planets going around them. There are.....
» 11/04/2009 9:53:17 PM Steven, I rather think you are referring to the recent research about the outcomes of inva.....
» 27/03/2009 2:15:02 PM James, in fact I only came back to this post because of the Conspiracy Theory thread. I wa.....
» 27/03/2009 6:54:44 AM Foxy, it wasn't a traffic ticket that was the problem. Einfeld is going to jail for attemp.....
» 26/03/2009 9:15:19 PM Bugsy, of course the elections were rigged. If the illuminati are capable of bringing down.....
» 26/03/2009 4:58:35 PM Perhaps we should be clear here. This was not a case of simply telling a lie, but one of a.....
» 16/03/2009 8:28:42 PM Examinator, I don’t know what ‘from a solution context’ actually means. It seems to be a m.....
» 15/03/2009 5:08:04 PM Examinator, I am curious about how you think a floor price on cocoa or coffee will really .....
» 7/03/2009 9:05:31 PM I have to admit, I thought this was a very odd article. In fact as Shadow Minister has men.....
» 7/03/2009 6:24:42 PM Bronwyn, indeed Rojo is right. It is highly ironic for Schmeiser complaining about a cultu.....
» 30/01/2009 7:10:47 AM Non-GM farmer, “Victoria: 0.73tonne/ha GM versus 0.82tonne/ha for non-GM. 12% less yield“ .....
» 26/01/2009 4:16:47 PM examinator wrote: “From an anthropological perspective it would seem that man was meant to.....
» 26/01/2009 7:59:36 AM Merri bee, this article, like your previous comment, is largely copied Julie Newman's pres.....
» 25/01/2009 1:38:19 PM Merri Bee, unfortunately not so. The National Variety Trials are available for all to chec.....
» 7/01/2009 4:22:50 PM The Land Grant Universities were set up by the Morrill Act of 1861. The Universities were .....
» 6/01/2009 9:42:15 PM Bronwyn, it is an unfortunate juxtaposition by the journalist and I don’t know if it was d.....
» 6/01/2009 8:34:17 PM C L Sr, if the evidence is everywhere, you should be able to point to the studies in the m.....
» 5/01/2009 5:09:31 PM Personally, I don’t particularly like advertising and don’t take much notice of it. I do s.....
» 5/01/2009 10:21:13 AM C L Sr, I have repeatedly stated on this thread that there are adverse reactions to vaccin.....
» 5/01/2009 8:28:01 AM Bronwyn, so you have taken a monthly estimate for farmer suicides across India, multiplied.....
» 4/01/2009 8:02:45 AM C L Sr, Wanting to change the goalposts again? Your statement was <<Measles was alre.....
» 3/01/2009 9:10:35 PM Bronwyn, 16,632 farmer suicides in all of India in 2007. 4238 in Maharashtra. Both are lo.....
» 3/01/2009 11:01:27 AM C L Sr <<argonomist...sorry but your argument is idiocy. inorganic mercury does not .....
» 2/01/2009 8:32:44 AM Bronwyn <<Even in the decade up until 2006 though, the figures nonetheless showed mo.....
» 1/01/2009 3:38:08 PM C L Sr, changing the goalposts now? I agree that “natural” medicine, as defined by many, u.....
» 31/12/2008 11:22:25 AM C L Sr, the central components of homeopathy are “the law of similars”, dilution and succu.....
» 31/12/2008 9:34:27 AM Merri bee, as far as I understand Elaine Ingham was never employed by Monsanto. http://www.....
» 30/12/2008 4:23:44 PM C L Sr, if you don’t mind me saying so your last post makes you look like an ignoramus or .....
» 29/12/2008 7:56:05 PM Dickie, yes you are correct that thimerosol is still used in adult vaccines in Australia. .....
» 27/12/2008 12:00:58 PM Under one god, that truly has to be one of the most astonishing posts I have seen on OLO. .....
» 26/12/2008 8:48:59 AM Dr. Stoller, I don’t think I, or anyone else on this forum, is saying there are no negativ.....
» 26/12/2008 8:28:15 AM Merri bee, there is one problem with this forum and that is you can’t go back and correct .....
» 25/12/2008 5:01:58 PM It is sad that medical professionals can be so ignorant. The real threat in this story is .....
» 24/12/2008 11:04:19 AM Merri bee, the fact the Scottish Government, or indeed any other Government, provided mone.....
» 20/12/2008 7:43:32 AM Merri bee, I think you mean the study done by Arpad Puzstai and Stanley Ewen? I have read .....
» 19/12/2008 7:38:38 AM Bronwyn, I don’t think that the comments of Dr. Paul Brent are at all damning. Perhaps you.....
» 18/12/2008 8:51:35 PM eftfnc, I am pretty sure vaccines in Australia don't contain mercury http://www.ncirs.usyd.....
» 18/12/2008 7:29:12 AM Hi, Madeleine, I thought you MADGErs found the level of discourse here not to your liking,.....
» 16/12/2008 7:28:22 PM Madeleine, I’m quite happy being Agronomist, thank you very much for your concern. I would.....
» 15/12/2008 8:45:00 PM Madeleine Love <<Agronomist, I have encouraged you to contact me directly. No email .....
» 15/12/2008 8:10:33 AM Hi Merri bee, I had trouble following your comments. Now it is my understanding that offic.....
» 14/12/2008 1:24:56 PM under one god, I have no idea why you bothered to post that abstract. The bacteria mention.....
» 13/12/2008 9:45:57 AM Ah Madeleine, yet some more myths to bust. 1) The GM protein testing for allergenicity is.....
» 12/12/2008 6:34:41 PM Greg, more strawmen eh? I suggest a course in plant breeding might not go astray. 1) Vir.....
» 3/12/2008 3:43:58 PM Paul L. I have to admire your persistence on this topic - it is like trying to have a swor.....
» 28/11/2008 8:47:39 PM examinator, I agree laws do not stop people from breaking them. However, if people do brea.....
» 24/11/2008 8:23:40 PM Hi Foxy, I also have a Ph.D. Does that get me any credibility with you? At least my Ph.D. .....
» 24/11/2008 7:14:01 PM examinator, it would be interesting to know more about your contact in the US wheat belt. .....
» 24/11/2008 11:10:12 AM examinator, I am just interested in a world view where facts become subordinate to ideolog.....
» 23/11/2008 5:00:57 PM examinator, the proximate causes of the recent spike in food commodity prices was George W.....
» 15/11/2008 7:33:05 AM Steven, my apologies. I am working from the online version of Nature and there is not a De.....
» 14/11/2008 7:19:58 PM Steven, The Nature 'Editorial' was not in fact an editorial, but a news report on Stanton.....
» 10/11/2008 3:33:41 PM one under god, I did introduce my comments as being the best way to deal with Jeffrey Smit.....
» 9/11/2008 4:34:52 PM examinator, I understand it is sinful to make a profit. Companies only make profits if the.....
» 8/11/2008 5:14:20 PM dickie, no the African Centre for Biosafety do not share my enthusiasm, because of course .....
» 8/11/2008 1:07:00 PM eftfnc, you mean he is a conspiracy theorist? Good luck to him with Stan Meyer's water pow.....
» 7/11/2008 9:30:07 PM Dickie, we have been over some of this ground before, but it is fair to say that BT cotton.....
» 5/11/2008 9:42:34 PM eftfnc, you really know how to find them. Unfortunately, 'free' energy does not exist. We .....
» 31/10/2008 9:24:15 PM PeterD, you are a perfect example of what I was saying. What is the point of comparing den.....
» 26/10/2008 3:04:26 PM Jay, anecdote does not make data. Leaving aside whether not being pursued by large numbers.....
» 26/10/2008 7:29:22 AM WWG, indeed the amount of fluoride added to water is important. If you were to read my pos.....
» 25/10/2008 1:36:36 PM Benjamin Disraeli supposedly said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and s.....
» 24/10/2008 6:46:27 PM This article has managed to bring some of the nutters out. Some casual observations about .....
» 27/09/2008 6:28:04 PM Sympneology, Ignorance is indeed bliss. Is that the best you can do? Who said the metal m.....
» 27/09/2008 1:13:12 PM Sympneology “so does not explain the molten steel found under the rubble” Doesn’t have to......
» 26/09/2008 10:07:11 PM daggett, cacofonix, Sympneology and Steel, (have I missed anyone here?). A few more resour.....
» 24/09/2008 8:26:53 PM dagget, http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html A detailed examination of th.....
» 20/09/2008 6:52:02 PM GrahamY, for this method to work there would have to be a very strong correlation between .....
» 12/09/2008 4:57:19 PM GrahamY, as I understand it (and it is a long time since I did quantum mechanics) you can .....
» 11/09/2008 10:13:45 PM Rainer, this experiment was never seriously going awry. The worst thing that could happen .....
» 11/09/2008 2:02:08 PM The Higgs Boson is a hypothetical short lived elementary particle propounded by Peter Higg.....
» 14/08/2008 3:14:26 PM Steel, no I didn’t say that. I said “GM per se had no mechanism”. The peas in question i.....
» 14/08/2008 9:33:33 AM Steel, no I didn't forget you used the word premise, I quoted it after all. Surely, if the.....
» 12/08/2008 8:53:59 PM So Steel, despite the ease with which it is possible to demonstrate that Vallianatos had m.....
» 11/08/2008 7:48:52 PM Oh Gosh. And I thought the author’s previous offering of Perpetual Hunger was poorly rese.....
» 11/08/2008 9:42:19 AM Non-GM farmer, a reason was given why glucosinolates were different in the GM canola feed .....
» 7/08/2008 9:34:17 AM RoushysLoveChild, firstly what are your hypotheses? What might be changed in GM food that .....
» 5/08/2008 5:10:32 PM RoushysLoveChild, Brake and Evenson’s paper, whilst focussed on testicular biology, did me.....
» 4/08/2008 6:56:10 PM Non-GM farmer, yes I could do a test tomorrow. In Canada you can buy Roundup Ready and Cle.....
» 4/08/2008 10:26:36 AM Non-GM farmer, I think if you looked at the data you would find the protein introduced int.....
» 3/08/2008 1:05:54 PM won, I assume you mean the tests that the WA Government paid Judy Carman to do? Firstly, y.....
» 2/08/2008 2:58:39 PM Watchful Eye, you seem to forget that a lot of testing is already done. Regulatory regimes.....
» 2/08/2008 9:12:07 AM Thank you for your comments Country Gal, I am only trying get across my experience and tha.....
» 29/07/2008 10:01:02 PM Margery, some farmers don’t want to grow canola. I can’t force them to grow canola if they.....
» 29/07/2008 12:31:01 PM Margery, do you take money to write things you don’t believe on a public forum? Why do you.....
» 28/07/2008 7:32:34 PM Non-GM farmer, I was strictly correct when I stated that living organisms cannot be patent.....
» 28/07/2008 11:09:42 AM So examinator, when you made this claim: “There are clear examples of the negativity of th.....
» 27/07/2008 1:15:08 PM examinator, all I did in my first comment is point out some major and obvious errors in Gr.....
» 26/07/2008 10:03:45 PM examinator, I didn’t write the piece. That was written by Greg Revell, organic farming ent.....
» 25/07/2008 8:14:04 PM Greg, I feel some research would do you some good. Perhaps some on plant breeding? In plan.....
» 18/07/2008 5:21:32 PM Passy, I didn’t describe the countries as Marxist (that is a strawman), just the philosoph.....
» 17/07/2008 5:34:24 PM What a silly article. There was a global food crisis in the 1970s and small peasants were .....
» 21/06/2008 1:07:59 PM Gosh Julie, ending stocks in Canada again. Last time we talked here I pointed to this page.....
» 9/06/2008 12:10:16 PM Helen, I am sorry, but I fail to see the relevance of your post. Are you suggesting that d.....
» 6/06/2008 8:04:05 PM I have read the summary of the report as well. I would like to congratulate Bugsy and Rojo.....
» 3/06/2008 2:50:56 PM Julie, I am interested in the “other side”, I am just not interested when if flies in the .....
» 2/06/2008 7:20:46 PM Julie, so you disagree with me on all these points? Just to help you and readers out I pro.....
» 2/06/2008 1:37:52 PM I get amazed sometimes at the examples used. So Haiti's lost the ability to grow enough fo.....
» 2/06/2008 10:44:31 AM What rubbish. The authors conveniently forget that before the 1950s there was massive food.....
» 31/05/2008 5:34:00 PM Julie, I notice that you have been ignoring the questions I have been posing and continuin.....
» 31/05/2008 5:20:03 PM Raw milk is potentially dangerous. That is why pasteurization was invented. http://www.cd.....
» 29/05/2008 8:53:42 PM Terry Boehm is indeed as you say very involved in politics. It is just that he represents .....
» 29/05/2008 12:26:18 PM Julie, not exactly. Clearfield is regulated as a novel food in Canada, but it still goes t.....
» 28/05/2008 5:03:57 PM Pelican, I suppose people on OLO would describe me as pro-GM so I will answer you. I am no.....
» 27/05/2008 6:12:54 PM Fractelle, I work with farmers who use technology from these companies. I don’t have to be.....
» 27/05/2008 12:42:11 PM Cuphandle, it is a bit more complicated than you are suggesting. The payout in law suits m.....
» 26/05/2008 5:14:31 PM Dickie, I am not defending Monsanto or Dow, merely pointing out where the blame where it t.....
» 25/05/2008 5:02:02 PM Fractelle, I am not employed by or otherwise get money from Monsanto. I work with farmers .....
» 25/05/2008 2:38:56 PM Julie, what a rant. Pity you can’t managed to get your facts correct, again. For existing .....
» 24/05/2008 11:21:12 AM next, Pyrme and Lembke had their piece published in 2003 and used papers up to 2002. They .....
» 16/05/2008 11:02:38 PM Sorry next, my first cite was to an internationally-recognised clearing house for data on .....
» 16/05/2008 3:05:36 PM Duncan, perhaps you might be able to explain to me why anti-biotechnology writers on GM cr.....
» 1/05/2008 9:16:30 PM eftfnc, the case studies included a variety of sources of silver: silver salts in solution.....
» 30/04/2008 5:41:22 PM Passy, it might help if you didn’t allow political theory to get in the way of facts. The .....
» 30/04/2008 5:23:02 PM eftfnc, much of the time I do struggle to follow where you are going? What has a system of.....
» 30/04/2008 2:06:41 PM eftfnc, you are correct and I need to apologise. The link you give does not direct to the .....
» 30/04/2008 12:09:54 PM eftfnc, I read “As most food goes bad as it ages, raw milk gets better.” in the link that .....
» 29/04/2008 5:17:42 PM eftfnc, I don’t dismiss things from the past, just because they are the past. I don’t know.....
» 28/04/2008 10:10:03 PM eftfnc, I pointed to Stephen Barrett’s comments simply because it saved me repeating the s.....
» 28/04/2008 12:45:02 PM This is what Stephen Barrett has to say about Weston A. Price, his ideas and how these ide.....
» 23/04/2008 10:28:10 PM Philo, some of the mutations result in duplication of genes. These new versions of the gen.....
» 23/04/2008 4:52:12 PM Sancho, selection is on the person carrying the allele. So if only dark people lived in Ic.....
» 15/04/2008 5:42:51 PM Ludwig, the main drivers of the current rise in foods are: increased demand by India and C.....
» 15/04/2008 5:20:10 PM eftfnc, I disagree that pasteurization takes out anything healthy out of milk. It removes .....
» 15/04/2008 11:40:06 AM eftfnc, most of the enteric diseases occur following the consumption of leafy vegetables a.....
» 14/04/2008 10:29:45 PM eftfnc, simple really. Raw milk carries potentially dangerous organisms. http://www.cdc.go.....
» 31/03/2008 12:21:41 PM Bazza, you describe a typical market situation. If the costs associated with transport of .....
» 29/03/2008 7:38:05 PM Bazza, you are correct that as fuel prices rise choices will have to be made. However, at .....
» 29/03/2008 12:16:41 PM This article appears to be ideology in quite a number of ways. It seems that Tony Burke’s .....
» 22/12/2007 7:36:08 PM Good grief, a conspiracy theorist of the highest order. Where on Earth do you find these t.....
» 11/12/2007 9:06:06 PM Hi Mule, permaculture may produce more biomass, but we don’t eat biomass. Even the advocat.....
» 10/12/2007 8:44:37 PM Hi Mule, yes I know about permaculture. I can walk down the road and see one (a long walk .....
» 7/12/2007 9:26:47 PM Hi Mule, You are aware of course that there are 6.6 million people in the world that all n.....
» 7/12/2007 8:22:32 AM News today. Kim Chance has found the non-GM canola market and secured it for Western Austr.....
» 5/12/2007 1:30:36 PM eftfnc, my children have an X-linked recessive disorder that affects hair, teeth, skin and.....
» 2/12/2007 5:33:55 PM Hi Cuphandle, a closed mind is a terrible thing to have, isn't it? So far all the points y.....
» 2/12/2007 12:56:13 PM Cuphandle, I would be pretty sure the tomatoes you speak of are not GM – at least the way .....
» 30/11/2007 9:09:32 AM Wobbles, firstly it must be realised that despite claims to the contrary pharmaceuticals a.....
» 29/11/2007 2:08:44 PM Jonny Rotten, exactly what are Jeffrey Smith's qualifications again? My understanding is t.....
» 28/11/2007 2:32:03 PM This is probably worse news for Canadian canola growers than anyone else. The adoption of .....
» 27/11/2007 3:24:50 PM Looks like your Australian politicians have decided to lift the ban on GM canola. http://w.....
» 19/11/2007 6:28:49 PM Seeds of Deception? The author's relevant qualifications are what? Oh, I know he can lev.....
» 26/10/2007 8:20:17 PM Hi Battery, the Australian dairy industry routinely feeds Australian cottonseed oil to cat.....
» 13/09/2007 7:10:49 PM My main problem with I-SIS is that much of the material they write is not intended to info.....
» 12/09/2007 8:51:31 PM So what is wrong with organic agriculture? Instead of posting from I-SIS, you might have .....
» 2/09/2007 6:13:45 PM Hi Safe, Allergic reactions occur almost immediately after exposure to the allergen. If i.....
» 16/08/2007 10:02:12 PM Julie, I have read the results of the Prairie Canola Variety Trials. You can find them her.....
» 15/08/2007 9:04:04 PM kartiya jim Your farmer friend has a simple solution. He doesn’t have to grow Roundup Rea.....
» 13/08/2007 5:33:37 PM Julie, InVigor canola does yield more because it is a hybrid – often it yields more than c.....
» 10/08/2007 5:26:07 PM Bush Goddess the truth is that most of the claims made by the ant-GM groups have not come .....
» 9/08/2007 10:07:59 PM Julie, you need to get with the times and stop quoting outdated documents. This from Deliv.....
» 8/08/2007 6:35:13 PM Breaking news, it seems the Australian agricultural industry, producers, traders and marke.....
» 7/08/2007 8:18:03 PM Kartiya Jim, my understanding is that it is not necessary to label animal products fed GM .....
» 7/08/2007 7:31:39 PM Julie, you are clutching at straws now. How is Monsanto going to know the results of trial.....
» 6/08/2007 9:28:50 PM Kartiya Jim, your sources must be mistaken. BT cottonseed is perfectly acceptable for catt.....
» 6/08/2007 9:00:24 PM So Julie when you said “if you read Monsanto's Canadian contract, trials are not permitted.....
» 4/08/2007 6:07:29 PM Julie, it seems to me that quite a few of your so-called “members” are organic growers: Sa.....
» 4/08/2007 5:55:00 PM Safe, I took you through part of the MON 863 study on another thread answering you questio.....
» 3/08/2007 8:46:09 PM Julie, I am finding it hard to follow your logic. If Monsanto in Canada does not allow tri.....
» 2/08/2007 9:22:10 PM Julie, when I last checked AG-Spectrum, ATR-Beacon and InVigor 60 were all mid season matu.....
» 1/08/2007 8:54:53 PM More from ABARE “Comparisons between Australian and Canadian domestic prices have been use.....
» 1/08/2007 8:54:00 PM Julie, I guess you are making stuff up. The ACC actually says that GM-Free = no GM. Read.....
» 31/07/2007 8:26:45 PM Julie, where is the substance to these comments you are making about buffer zones? Where d.....
» 30/07/2007 8:26:23 PM Julie, you do like to charge off without properly reading things don’t you? You just go ah.....
» 30/07/2007 5:26:31 PM Julie, as usual you avoid reading what is written. The yield values I gave you were averag.....
» 29/07/2007 1:05:50 PM All research is funded by groups who have a vested interest of some sort in the outcome, i.....
» 28/07/2007 10:24:36 PM I see eftfnc, research is biased if you don’t agree with it and unbiased if you do. At lea.....
» 28/07/2007 5:40:56 PM So it is all a conspiracy then Julie, 10 million farmers around the world have had the woo.....
» 26/07/2007 1:37:24 PM eftfnc, nice dictionary definition, but statistical bias is something good scientists rigo.....
» 26/07/2007 1:12:55 PM Julie, you have often claimed to represent the farmers of Australia, but now by your own a.....
» 19/07/2007 10:29:33 AM EFTFNC: Nutritional assessments are made as part of the safety assessment of GM crops,( Wh.....
» 18/07/2007 4:03:32 PM Dickie, and I once worked for the US Government, but I don't see how that is relevant. You.....
» 18/07/2007 2:00:51 PM If scientific reports are what you want, I-SIS is not the place to go for them. The creato.....
» 17/07/2007 5:35:01 PM Firstly, most farmers in Australia do not support the GE bans. It is only the minority gro.....
» 14/07/2007 3:15:58 PM Hi safe, I applaud your challenge in reading the statistical report. The answers to smone .....
» 10/07/2007 8:15:13 PM Thanks heaps, Bugsy. They were going to be my comments almost exactly. The statistical rep.....
» 10/07/2007 3:02:33 PM Hi Safe, I know this link is a blog, but it covers the comments from Caruso pretty well an.....
» 9/07/2007 2:15:33 PM Hi Safe, to be honest, I would suggest you were totally sympathetic to the non-GM campaign.....
» 8/07/2007 3:35:00 PM My facts are wrong? Evidence that triazine tolerant canola has been commercially grown in .....
» 7/07/2007 2:12:41 PM Julie, you still avoided answering the questions. I didn’t ask about the tests or the resu.....
» 6/07/2007 1:51:38 PM Julie, as you have avoided answering any of my specific questions about the claims Ian Edw.....
» 3/07/2007 5:22:08 PM Julie, my name is not Bill. I am happy to answer your questions about the claims I made. G.....
» 3/07/2007 2:06:06 PM Julie, what a rant. It is funny how you seem to accuse others of using your own modus oper.....
» 2/07/2007 3:56:43 PM michael_in_adelaide, while you might serve on an IBC, allow me to suggest you know nothing.....
» 30/06/2007 10:09:14 PM There has been a bit of fun and games on the food safety front Rob. In case you haven't ca.....
» 15/06/2007 1:32:42 PM Sparky, you are absolutely correct that farmers can get things wrong with technology and s.....
» 14/06/2007 8:37:52 PM Sparky and Bugsy, whether "subsistence" farmers can get value for GM crops will .....
» 14/06/2007 8:19:39 PM Katherine Wilson, these are merely opinions. Where is the evidence to support them? The .....
» 13/06/2007 8:13:36 PM Katherine Wilson, I should apologise for misreading your comment, but I must say it wasn’t.....
» 13/06/2007 9:47:05 AM Baz, Instead of looking at Percy Schmeiser who decided he wanted to plant his farm to GM c.....
» 12/06/2007 7:33:31 PM This article was so silly, I am almost at a loss of where to start. perhaps with this quot.....
» 9/06/2007 6:42:19 PM This discussion of whether or not Australia should plant GM canola is really a bit of a jo.....
» 3/03/2007 9:17:32 PM I trained as a scientist, Ph.D. and all. Perhaps I should have done fashion design instead.....
» 2/02/2007 9:42:10 AM aqvarivs, I am not sure what you mean by "2 growing seasons" in Canada. Canada .....
» 1/02/2007 4:42:25 PM aqvarivs, while there is currently no shortage of food in the world, that situation will n.....
» 2/11/2006 7:10:34 PM Safe, you didn't really answer the question. My understanding is that products in Australi.....
» 18/10/2006 4:59:36 PM Even better, GM crops are also helping farmers better manage drought. http://www.heartlan.....
» 18/10/2006 4:57:30 PM Bt corn success in the Philippines RP can achieve corn sufficiency with expansion of hybr.....
» 17/10/2006 8:26:43 PM Yet another GM success story from: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/015200610151232.h.....
» 2/10/2006 6:23:24 PM New from CSIRO. Bt Cotton uses 10% less water than conventional cotton. So much for NonGMF.....
» 22/09/2006 10:39:32 PM Example 1. I assume that Lord Sainsbury declared his financial interests and gave up perso.....
» 21/09/2006 9:29:37 PM Is it safe? Of course we have tried to be helpful, see my post of September 1. I sourced b.....
» 19/09/2006 7:06:37 PM Your request: "Why wouldn't Monsanto treat Australia the same as America? Show me whe.....
» 18/09/2006 10:09:36 AM "I said wheat belt farmer, not canola farmer." I understand that Monsanto is onl.....
» 17/09/2006 9:18:53 PM Well because you couldn't answer most of them, I will do it for you. 1) How many Australi.....
» 14/09/2006 9:27:02 PM Is it really safe? Can I ask you some questions about your claims? 1) How many Australian.....
» 10/09/2006 1:36:28 PM Is it Safe? Steve Madden is correct. If you can't separate the obvious fiction from fact, .....
» 9/09/2006 10:41:45 PM Is it really safe? The trouble is that you restrict you research exclusively to sources fr.....
» 1/09/2006 9:34:45 AM I thought you list might start and end with Arpad Pusztai. Pusztai did make comments about.....
» 31/08/2006 5:51:39 PM “Universities will allow donations to research and I have found that the results are most .....
» 30/08/2006 7:37:12 PM Getting a bit desperate here? What has the University of Nebraska got to do with it? The.....
» 29/08/2006 11:31:22 AM The placebo effect is well known; however, it usually occurs with self-reporting. If peopl.....
» 21/08/2006 8:57:54 PM A central belief of Bruce Lipton is that genes are relatively unimportant. Life is influen.....
» 18/08/2006 8:27:51 PM You might also add that there has been an increase in the average life expectancy in the p.....
» 16/08/2006 7:48:30 PM Don't panic Dot. In Australia, there is legislation ensuring that GM products containing m.....
» 15/08/2006 9:11:27 PM NonGMFarmer, Insect-resistant corn has been adopted by farmers in the US. In 2006, 40% of .....
» 15/08/2006 9:08:23 PM I would suggest that Louise Sales and James Norman have a good look at the tripe they have.....
» 28/07/2006 6:43:53 PM Bt MAIZE IN SPAIN FOUND TO IMPROVE PRODUCTION BY 7.3% Scientists of the Institute and Agr.....
» 21/07/2006 7:25:41 PM PNAS, vol. 103(20), pages 7571-7576 Farm-scale evaluation of the impacts of transgenic co.....
» 9/06/2006 8:45:56 AM I obtained my data from the Environmental Working Group. They are against agricultural sub.....
» 7/06/2006 8:47:09 AM Dunart, Experience from North America would dictate the following answers: If I plant cro.....
» 6/06/2006 8:58:31 AM Dunart, It is not an issue in North America. No-one, except a few mavericks who have other.....
» 4/06/2006 9:05:10 AM Tell me where it says anything about farmers earning wages. I have copied out the relevant.....
» 3/06/2006 8:39:20 AM NonGMFarmer, I am coming more and more to the opinion that you know next to nothing about .....
» 30/05/2006 8:16:13 AM Glad you believe the USDA is a reliable source, I have a lot of friends working there. You.....
» 24/05/2006 9:06:49 AM Firstly, I didn’t ask for an opinion on Judy Carman, I asked for evidence. If I want an op.....
» 23/05/2006 8:52:10 AM As you have amply demonstrated, you espouse information based not on its veracity, but bec.....
» 16/05/2006 8:55:36 AM NonGMFarmer, nice to see you have gone back to the sources at last. You have not got it ri.....
» 16/05/2006 8:46:07 AM Is it really safe, Thank you for your tip. I am indeed interested in Judy Carmen’s qualifi.....
» 15/05/2006 10:55:29 AM NonGMFarmer, If Monsanto is not going to sue farmers in Australia if they accidently grow .....
» 13/05/2006 10:15:19 AM Schmeiser’s claims of having bred his own canola seed for 50 years are ludicrous. Canola w.....
» 13/05/2006 10:14:46 AM NonGMFarmer. You seem to be illiterate as well. Let me review. You made a claim to the e.....
» 13/05/2006 9:17:32 AM NonGM Farmer, as usual you have totally mis-read this. On what other subjects would you pr.....
» 12/05/2006 7:42:26 AM NonGMFarmer, you are arrogant as well as ignorant. I said nothing about what may or may no.....
» 12/05/2006 7:28:47 AM Perhaps rather than misinterpreting the Government Press Releases, you should read the det.....
» 11/05/2006 8:50:36 AM Dunart, Rather than simply believe some of the stuff put around by the anti-Gm movement, .....
» 11/05/2006 8:40:56 AM NonGMFarmer. The Canadian Farm Income Program no longer exists. It has been incorporated i.....
» 1/05/2006 9:00:56 PM CAIS is not a subsidy, but an insurance program. Farmers have to pay to get income protect.....
» 29/04/2006 8:22:54 PM Sorry, NonGMFarmer, The CFIP finished in 2002......
» 28/04/2006 8:46:16 PM Perhaps Non-GMFarmer you should do your homework instead of telling me what to do. The CAI.....
» 27/04/2006 8:39:16 PM “…in Canada they are increasing subsidies” This is news to me and also to the Canadian f.....
» 26/04/2006 8:15:42 PM WEEKLY TIMES GM a mystery to Government April 26, 2006 Tragically, Victorian Agricultur.....
» 26/04/2006 8:26:12 AM If farmers don't make money from GM crops, why do more and more farmers plant them? Globa.....
» 24/04/2006 10:03:08 AM WEEKLY TIMES April 19, 2006 Time to end GM moratorium It is great to see the benefits of.....
» 16/04/2006 4:48:31 PM Apologies, got the date wrong. Thy Page 6 on the 10th April. Here is another article. CO.....
» 14/04/2006 11:18:43 AM ABC NEWS Opposition claims GM ban delaying anti-frost crops The Victorian Opposition say.....
» 11/04/2006 8:58:10 PM Fron The Canberra Times: Australia's fear of GM crops is hampering our competitiveness 9.....
» 17/03/2006 4:27:24 PM FYI GM rethink as Stanhope sees biotech future for Canberra Andree Stephens Thursday, 16 .....
» 13/03/2006 10:05:05 AM So Charles Benbrook is your expert. Charles Benbrook is an agricultural economist, former .....
» 10/03/2006 8:20:43 AM A few issues to consider. 1. The human papilloma virus carries its own oncogenes, two of .....
» 8/03/2006 11:34:57 AM You might find that 1 in a million times 1 in a million times 1 in 125 comes up with the p.....
» 4/03/2006 11:37:25 AM Is he arguing that the laws of probability are different in this case? Or the absorption.....
» 4/03/2006 11:31:09 AM Sophistry is the creation of clever, but specious arguments. The word comes from the Sophi.....
» 2/03/2006 8:37:32 AM GM soy increases allergies comes from an article in the Daily Express in the UK (see http:.....
» 1/03/2006 8:15:46 AM The chances of DNA surviving in the human gut are small. Equally the chances of a piece of.....
» 28/02/2006 8:56:57 AM So NonGMFarmer, I misquoted you about “no weeds”. I would have thought “no weeds” meant, ….....
» 28/02/2006 7:44:19 AM Traavik’s work on the 35S promoter (Myhre et al. European Food Research and Technology 222.....
» 26/02/2006 8:00:24 AM NonGMFarmer We have been through this before. There are two advantages to GM canola in Ca.....
» 20/02/2006 7:54:57 AM NonGMFarmer. I am assuming you have never seen GM canola crops growing in the field or tal.....
» 19/02/2006 12:53:49 PM NonGMFarmer. Where do you get your information about the Canadian canola industry from? It.....
» 17/02/2006 7:04:05 AM Is it really safe? Your list of harms comes from a collection made by GMWatch. They will p.....
» 15/02/2006 8:48:08 AM NonGM Farmer. As usual you take my words out of context. I don’t really care whether you d.....
» 13/02/2006 7:53:08 AM NonGMFarmer. Indeed you are mistaken. To my knowledge, I have never met a Ms. Foley of CSI.....
» 10/02/2006 8:09:37 AM Non-GM Farmer. You must be mistaken. I have never heard that the GM success rate is 1 in a.....
» 9/02/2006 7:59:08 PM David, the benefits of grain legumes and canola on wheat crops is more through a disease b.....
» 9/02/2006 6:35:26 AM Non-GMFarmer. No you are no expert on GM Techniques and it shows. Just about every comment.....
» 6/02/2006 10:00:37 AM From a paper just published. Upadhay et. al. 2006. Economics of integrated weed managemen.....
» 6/02/2006 7:45:58 AM Non-GM Farmer, let us try this again. CMV, often CaMV, is cauliflower mosaic virus. CMV35S.....
» 3/02/2006 12:51:33 PM 1. Patenting. Monsanto would find it exceptionally difficult to prosecute me for patent br.....
» 3/02/2006 7:56:49 AM Non-GM Farmer said: “I also think GM is not significantly different enough to be registere.....
» 2/02/2006 11:36:36 AM From Scott Day Canadian farmer (http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.....
» 1/02/2006 6:07:40 AM Back in November and December, NonGMFarmer made several posts about Bt cotton being a disa.....
» 30/01/2006 12:22:32 PM “The quote from the Scientist makes sense to why any post emergent spraying impacts on yie.....
» 26/01/2006 9:20:08 AM Drop in canola yields in the first few years of adoption? I can't see it in the figures (h.....
» 24/01/2006 10:16:22 AM Non GM Farmer. Let me try this again. Roundup Ready canola as grown in Canada and also as.....
» 24/01/2006 8:03:25 AM Non GM farmer, you need to read more carefully. Firstly, It was you who were saying that .....
» 20/01/2006 9:46:45 AM I like others are outraged by this attitude. There are a lot of organisations in the US wi.....
» 20/01/2006 9:03:51 AM You can find the link at: http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/pubscat?OpenView&StartKe.....
» 18/01/2006 9:29:51 AM What piffle! Average canola yields in Canada in the 7 years from 1999, when GM canola bec.....
» 17/01/2006 9:07:21 AM Canola yields are affected by weather conditions as well as by genetics and management dec.....
» 5/01/2006 9:51:37 AM Rebel, you might find this press release issued by Greenpeace last October illuminating. I.....
» 5/01/2006 7:48:59 AM Is it really safe?, I did read the table (Table 1) in Brookes and Barfoot’s paper. The Tab.....
» 4/01/2006 9:27:49 AM Brookes and Barfoot state that the average technology cost to Canadian farmers has been $C.....
» 4/01/2006 7:26:01 AM Is it really safe?, I am guessing from your posts on this site that you are indeed fervent.....
» 30/12/2005 6:05:13 AM Perhaps you should more correctly ask whether Australian farmers should forgo the benefits.....
» 28/12/2005 6:50:25 AM A study conducted by The National Centre for Food and Agriculture Policy called Biotechnol.....
» 28/12/2005 6:19:16 AM Sangita Shah writes in the Financial Express that Bt Cotton demand is up 155% in India (ht.....
» 24/12/2005 5:38:54 AM This is what Graham Brookes and Peter Barfoot of PG Economics had to say in a paper publis.....
» 22/12/2005 9:46:31 AM Contrary to the assertions made, NonGMFarmer clearly doesn’t care a rats for the issues. I.....
» 21/12/2005 7:48:28 AM NonGMFarmer. If I were to publicly ask General Motors why their motor vehicles disintegrat.....
» 20/12/2005 6:29:53 AM Opinionated2. There are people much more qualified to take on your list than I, but becaus.....
» 17/12/2005 8:59:31 AM In North America, Chuck Benbrook is seen for what he has been for most of the past 15 year.....
» 17/12/2005 7:29:02 AM NonGMFarmer. Some more questions for you to ponder. If you don’t mind what your neighbors.....
» 16/12/2005 6:28:54 AM NonGMFarmer has been casting a number of aspersions around. This could become quite intere.....
» 13/12/2005 3:34:37 AM There are a number of definitions of the Precautionary Principle, so we could end up argui.....
» 11/12/2005 1:55:49 AM Opinionated2 and Is it Really safe? You like I live in a rich Western country and have the.....
» 8/12/2005 9:34:38 AM NonGMFarmer. You need to be more specific about what you mean. Most in the canola industry.....
» 7/12/2005 7:05:23 AM NonGMFarmer. Now you have made an accusation about me to the effect that “a paid PR consul.....
» 6/12/2005 6:27:18 AM Maracas on dioxins. It is indeed a pity if dioxin levels in Sydney Harbour are high enough.....
» 6/12/2005 3:29:01 AM NonGMFarmer. Unfortunately, I got no real pleasure from having my prediction about you pro.....
» 4/12/2005 3:45:49 AM NonGMFarmer. Back on the discussion of canola sales from Canada. You didn’t seem to like m.....
» 3/12/2005 9:58:00 AM NonGMfarmer. “ABARE1990-2000 pre-GM: Canada maintained a consistent premium of US$32.68/to.....
» 2/12/2005 9:23:31 AM Non GM Farmer “Anybody thinking GM crops are for the benefit of farmers must be extremely .....
» 1/12/2005 2:51:28 AM NonGMFarmer, you really need to learn to use official statistics – the most reliable sourc.....
» 30/11/2005 2:03:50 AM “Monsanto has an end point royalty where a positive test (? as low as 0.5%) can trigger a .....
» 29/11/2005 5:02:59 AM Non-GM Farmer. If you hate being lied to why do you publish incorrect rubbish on your webs.....

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