Scientists

Anthropogenic global warming advocates say scientists should decide this issue for us; unfortunately, the AGW advocates do not include public policy scientists (those inconvenient economists for example) in the anointed group. Clearly, environmental scientists have an important role to play with respect to this policy. On the other hand, would a prudent person rely on only one source when studying a complex problem? There are several reasons the answer to that question is no. In the 1960s, environmental scientists crossed over from science to political advocacy.

Dear Editor: I would like to briefly respond to a letter concerning the "theory of evolution" and gravity. First, I would like to say that the letter writer is comparing apples and oranges. Secondly, gravity is not a theory. It is a provable fact. If the writer thinks it is a theory, then let me drop an anvil from a high building with her under it. The difference between theory and fact is that fact can be reproduced in a laboratory. Gravity has been proven time and time again.

Dear Editor: There is one thing you must realize: Scientists are spending millions and millions of dollars trying to disprove the deity of Christ. They're trying to prove that the Bible is wrong. How can you explain the Grand Canyon? What about Natural Bridge in eastern Kentucky? Let me ask you this: How do we get oxygen? No, not from trees. We get oxygen because God created the trees to produce oxygen going all the way back to the Garden of Eden. Right now scientists are trying to say there is life on Mars.

Dear Editor, First I want to thank Herb Brock for the front page piece in The Advocate-Messenger on the Corning scientists. However, he did not refer to their proper titles of Dr. Donnell Walton and Dr. Carlton Truesdale, after both these great men of science spent many years attaining the education level of Ph.D. Dr. Truesdale received his bachelor of science in chemistry from Morehouse College and his Ph.D. from the University of California. He holds 22 patents with Corning and was named Research Fellow in 2005, which is the highest honor that Corning gives to a scientist.

While looking with his classmates at slide after slide of one African-American scientist or inventor after another, the black Bate Middle School student was moved to say something to a friend. "Heck with being an NBA star. I want to be a famous inventor," said the youngster. "Bet they (scientists) don't make nearly as much as a pro player," his friend replied. "But they're famous and get to invent neat stuff," the youngster said. Time will only tell whether the youngster realizes his new occupational goal, but just the fact that he was thinking about making a career out of science was the result the men putting on the slide show would have wanted to hear.

Dear Editor, I am afraid Bob Martin's editorial gives entirely the wrong impression about the climate change issue in America. If Al Gore and "his apostles" (Mr. Martin's term) are bullying scientists and have "hijacked the scientific dialogue," why is the United States so far behind virtually every other developed country in recognizing the threat of global warming and acting on it? Surely scientists and governments around the world are not under the thumb of Al Gore and "his apostles.

Dear Editor, Recently, economist Bob Martin rejected the notion that scholars have an obligation to "inform the public" about "conflicts of interest" with respect to "a public issue. " He says issues should be decided by "objective evidence. " We differ in that he equates informing with either partisanship or advocacy; I do not. Also, he sees only one issue, while I see two. Before internal documents revealed that tobacco companies were lying to us, smokers and those considering smoking were sometimes confused because scientists were divided about smoking's health effects.

Dear Editor, This in reference to the letter by Sallie Bright. She is the one who has her facts wrong. There has never been agreement among scientists about global warming. "Tree huggers" have taken over the Environmental Protection Agency and many in Congress. They have chosen which reports from which group of scientists get delivered to Congress. Many scientists worldwide have contended that it is just a normal periodical fluctuation. When I was a teenager in the late 1950s and 1960s, another ice age was predicted due to several years of below normal temperatures.

Jim Gooch's ridiculous dog-and-pony show in Frankfort last week succeeded in only one thing: making Kentucky a laughingstock. On Sunday morning, the TV networks had a field day with his assertion that global warming is a hoax cooked up by Al Gore, the U.N., Hollywood and, of course, the news media. Gooch, the Democratic state representative from Providence who chairs the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee, held an interim joint committee hearing on Wednesday to debunk climate change.

The smokehad barely settled from the conclave of cardinals' announcement that Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio had been elected as Pope Francis, when the scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, made their own announcement: the so-called “God particle” does indeed exist. “Look quick,” my wife told me, directing me to the evening news. “They've discovered the 'God particle.'” I was curious: Was it A God Particle? Or The God Particle?

Dear Editor, Well, I see we have another “sheeple” who drank the Kool-Aid regarding “climate change.” Christine Missik has bought into all the propaganda and hype. Oh, sure, climate change is real. The Earth’s climate changes perpetually and goes through many phases over decades, centuries and millennia. Before Al Gore came along trying to find a new money maker after his presidential loss in 2000, many experts and scientists proclaimed we were in a mini Ice Age in the 1970s.

Anthropogenic global warming advocates say scientists should decide this issue for us; unfortunately, the AGW advocates do not include public policy scientists (those inconvenient economists for example) in the anointed group. Clearly, environmental scientists have an important role to play with respect to this policy. On the other hand, would a prudent person rely on only one source when studying a complex problem? There are several reasons the answer to that question is no. In the 1960s, environmental scientists crossed over from science to political advocacy.

Dear Editor, Last month, the National Academy of Sciences, one of our most, if not the most, reputable scientific organization in the United States, released its most comprehensive report to date on climate change. The report details the reality of climate change and the necessity for the U.S. to take dramatic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These reports stem from the request by Congress during the Bush administration that the Academy advise Congress about climate change.

Forensic science is the process of applying the study of natural sciences to matters of the law. Years before CSI flooded television, there was Quincy, where every week LA medical examiner Jack Klugman brought the guilty to justice or freed the wrongly accused using science to prove what actually happened. In their book, Tainting evidence: Inside the scandals at the FBI Crime Lab, John Kelly and Phillip Wearne conclude a long list of forensic science-solved crimes including the first World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building by saying "?

Recently, those who read or watch newscasts were informed that a new discovery of a skeletal hand, with most bones still in place, was more than 4 million years old. This was seen to be of pivotal importance when compared to hand structure previously recorded as a little more than 2 million years of age. Scientists do this a lot. Something is unearthed that has been in the ground for some undetermined length of time, and after viewing it, caucusing...

Jared Diamond has been described as, not a single person, but "really a committee. " A quick look at his resume explains why. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author; a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellowship; a field researcher who has led expeditions to New Guinea and neighboring islands; a geneticist; a geologist; an archaeologist; and a linguist. He speaks 12 languages and in his spare time is a professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dear Editor, This in reference to the letter by Sallie Bright. She is the one who has her facts wrong. There has never been agreement among scientists about global warming. "Tree huggers" have taken over the Environmental Protection Agency and many in Congress. They have chosen which reports from which group of scientists get delivered to Congress. Many scientists worldwide have contended that it is just a normal periodical fluctuation. When I was a teenager in the late 1950s and 1960s, another ice age was predicted due to several years of below normal temperatures.

May 5, 1983 Members of the Clark County Woman's Club will entertain with a "Salad Extravaganza" on Thursday at the First United Methodist Church. Proceeds will go to the Clark County Public Library. Club members include: Mavis Shearer, Pat Rafferty, Trudy Cayton, Betsy Kamuf, Danby Williams, Louella Brantley and Mariantha Ducas. The eighth annual "Kindness to Animals Award" has been presented to Clarine Travis by the Winchester-Clark County Humane Society. Travis found several baby squirrels whose mother had died or had been killed and bottle-fed the babies until they were old enough to be turned loose on a posted farm in Clark County.

Dear Editor, First I want to thank Herb Brock for the front page piece in The Advocate-Messenger on the Corning scientists. However, he did not refer to their proper titles of Dr. Donnell Walton and Dr. Carlton Truesdale, after both these great men of science spent many years attaining the education level of Ph.D. Dr. Truesdale received his bachelor of science in chemistry from Morehouse College and his Ph.D. from the University of California. He holds 22 patents with Corning and was named Research Fellow in 2005, which is the highest honor that Corning gives to a scientist.