by Richard Easther | Jun 15, 2014 | Bad Science, New Zealand
In the United States, right wing politicians who want to gain the approbation of the lunatic rump of the Republican party while preserving their credibility with moderate voters have taken to sidestepping climate questions with the phrase “I’m not a scientist“....
by Richard Easther | Jun 13, 2014 | Bad Science, Physics
Just under a year ago the internet cranked out dozens of stories on NASA’s efforts to develop “warp drive” technologies. And just under a year ago, dozens of scientists and science bloggers explained that while Einstein’s general theory of relativity let’s...
by Richard Easther | May 24, 2014 | Cosmology
When the news of the BICEP2 result broke, the mood was euphoric. There was open speculation about Nobel Prizes, a certain video went viral and cosmologists spoke of a radical transformation in our understanding of the early universe. And all of this may still come to...
by Richard Easther | May 19, 2014 | Cosmology
It’s two months since the BICEP2 team announced it had seen the fingerprints of gravitational waves in the microwave background, thus apparently opening a portal into the universe ten trillion, trillion, trillionths of a second after the Big Bang. In the last week,...
by Richard Easther | Apr 17, 2014 | Cosmology, Physics
A month ago the BICEP2 team announced that our universe is apparently awash with gravitational waves, pointing to the existence of an inflationary phase moments after the Big Bang. This was front page news all over the world, and cosmologists...
