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FBI is Trumpland

vendredi 4 novembre 2016 à 01:00

'The FBI Is Trumpland': Anti-Clinton Atmosphere Spurred Leaks, Sources Say.

The FBI accepts false information from crackpots to attack Clinton.

Greenwashing fund

vendredi 4 novembre 2016 à 01:00

Oil companies will spend a billion dollars on energy efficiency and methane leak reduction.

It is a useful thing to do, but far too little.

Underestimated oil risk

vendredi 4 novembre 2016 à 01:00

The Dakota Access Pipeline was approved based on a bent environmental impact statement.

That is a common method of disregarding environmental protection laws.

Public mental health

vendredi 4 novembre 2016 à 01:00

To Reduce Prison Population, Invest in Public Mental Health, New Study Says.

It would also be a profitable change, since the decreased prison spending would exceed the medical spending by a factor of 1.26.

(The article states this in a confusing way, but someone checked the study for me.)

Forensic guesswork

vendredi 4 novembre 2016 à 01:00

Many aspects of forensic "science" in the 20th century were just guesswork and carelessness.

Some of the guesswork is being replaced with evidence-based science, but what can we do about the carelessness?