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Who’s your expert? How peer-reviewed research differs from rhetoric by climate science deniers

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Jul. 03 (Opinion) - A jury of one’s peers should assess scientific claims. Here are two, related pieces from The Conversation, “Who’s your expert? The difference between peer review and rhetoric” and “Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review.” First, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change Institute, submits some climate “sceptics” to peer-review and finds them [...]

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‘Let’s talk about sex’—and what American teenagers don’t know about it [VIDEO]

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Apr. 09 - by Lisa Hymas. “Every day in America, 10,000 teenagers catch an STD, 2,400 young girls become pregnant, and 55 young people are infected with HIV.” Those sobering stats are from a documentary airing on TLC tonight, April 9, at 10 p.m. / 9 central. Let’s Talk About Sex is directed by James Houston, a fashion photographer who came to the U.S. from Australia and Europe and was aghast at our screwed-up sexual culture. Sex is everywhere, used to sell everything, but we don’t talk about it openly and honestly with our teenagers. “Young people in America don’t know the risks associated with sex, and because of that, American teen pregnancy and STD rates are among the highest in the industrialized world,” says Houston. Says one teenager in the film, “People are in denial—teachers, parents. They’re like, ‘No, no, teenagers aren’t having sex. They can’t, or the shouldn’t.’ But we do and we are.” I ...

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Japan tsunami cost Australia $2b: Swan

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:06:00 -0700

Australian Broadcasting - Apr. 03 - The Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, says the Japanese earthquake is likely to cut about $2 billion from Australia's export earnings. "Preliminary Treasury estimates show that the earthquake and tsunami will cut demand for our bulk commodity exports in the

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Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

theaustralian.com.au - By Julian Assange - Dec. 07 (Editorial) - WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately? Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption.

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Chilling prospects in new cold war | The Australian

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

theaustralian.com.au - By Rowan Callick - May. 26 (Opinion) - IMAGINE the anger that would be reverberating around the world if the US had, unprovoked in any way, sunk a Cuban ship, killing dozens of sailors - or if Israel had similarly blown up a Syrian vessel, drowning half its crew. The deaths of 46 South Koreans, killed when a torpedo from a North Korean submarine sliced in half their 1200-tonne corvette, the Cheonan, on March 26 have so far been treated overseas as chiefly a parochial concern.

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The Australian case for nationalisation

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Crooked Timber - By John Quiggin - Jan. 25 (Opinion) - The speed with which bank nationalisation has risen to the top of the policy agenda has found the economics profession largely unprepared. The literature on property rights that developed in the 1970s produced a range of arguments in favour of private as opposed to public ownership which had at least some influence on the widespread adoption of privatisation policies in the 1980s and 1990s. Although subsequent theoretical and empirical developments, such as the discovery of the equity premium puzzle and developments in agency theory cast doubt on the claims of the original literature, the profession as a whole had moved on, and showed little interest in revisiting the issues. The situation was a bit different in Australia.

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Meet Kevin Rudd, Australia's New Prime Minister

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:15:50 -0800

Pajamas Media - By Peter Day - Nov. 25 (Opinion) - For conservatives Down Under, it's over. The 11-year-old Australian Liberal-National Party government led by Prime Minister John Howard - George Bush's 'man of steel' - was on Saturday, 24 November (Australian time) comprehensively voted out of office. The national swing of over 5% in yesterday's vote has brought a young, bright and energetic Queenslander named Kevin Rudd to the job of Prime Minister of Australia, with a comfortable majority for his Labor Party of about 25 seats in the 150-seat federal house of representatives.

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