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If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Editor of Quadrant Music, Alexander Voltz, has won the symphonic section of the prestigious George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.
Sep 03 2024
1 mins
Three-Eyed Fish Served with Green Tripe
The cliched old gag about knowing when a politician is lying — their lips are moving — has never been more clearly illustrated than in the tsunami of misinformation, disinformation and outright whoppers surrounding the current nuclear energy controversy. There should be a rational debate between the Coalition and Labor, which is no less than an energy-rich country with some of the world’s most expensive power deserves. But with Opposition leader Peter Dutton pushing the need for reliable nuclear energy in our power mix, key Labor figures have replied with puerile memes of three-eyed fish, mutant Blinkey Bills and endleess furphies about exorbitant costs and construction time estimates bearing no relation to reality. All it takes is a few mouse clicks to expose those lies.
The Coalition wants to establish seven new nuclear plants at the sites of existing coal-fired power stations marked for retirement. They would feed neatly into the existing power grid, maintaining and firming a…
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
