space
Privatize Space Exploration: The Free-Market Solution For America's Space Program
by Robert Garmong (June 27, 2004)
SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded manned spacecraft, shattered more than the boundary of outer space: it destroyed forever the myth that space exploration can only be done by the government.

space
A Government-Financed Mars Prize?
by Ron Pisaturo  (March 1, 2004)
In The Case for Mars, Robert Zubrin's book that describes his radical new way for man to reach Mars (a way that years later has been adopted by NASA), Dr. Zubrin mentions the idea of a Mars Prize, which he "came up with under the prodding of" Newt Gingrich in 1994. Under this plan, the government would forego its own Mars exploration program, and instead offer a cash prize (of say, $30 billion) for the first successful private mission to Mars.
 

history
America Has Grounded the Wright Brothers
by Heike Berthold (December 17, 2003)
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers launched their fragile first plane, catapulting us into the Century of Flight. Starting with a linen-and-fabric machine barely controllable aloft, aviation's giants have given us routine jet travel as an everyday convenience--a necessity even.

space
Earth Worshippers Cause Death in Space: Environmentalist Dogma Has Led to the Sacrifice of Fourteen Astronauts on the Space Shuttle
by Hannes Hacker  (July 11, 2003)
Now that a dramatic new test has confirmed that a piece of thermal insulation flaking off of space shuttle Columbia's external tank during launch was the most likely cause of its destruction during reentry, the typical second-guessing in the press has focused on NASA engineers, asking: "What did Mission Control know, and when did they know it?"

environmentalism
On Earth Day Remember: If Environmentalists Succeed, They Will Make Human Life Impossible
by Michael Berliner (April 22, 2003)
The fundamental goal of environmentalists is not clean air and clean water; rather it is the demolition of technological/industrial civilization. Their goal is not the advancement of human health, human happiness, and human life; rather it is a subhuman world where "nature" is worshipped like the totem of some primitive religion.

philosophy
The Easter Masquerade
by Keith Lockitch (April 19, 2003)
A variety of public figures--from prominent scientists to the Pope--have promoted the view that science and religion are not adversaries but complementary and mutually supporting fields. A closer look, however, reveals the long history of the hostility of faith towards reason--which continues to this day. Violent clashes between the two are not only possible but unavoidable, and the notion that religion can coexist on friendly terms with science and reason is false.

genetics
Mandatory Labeling Is A Bad Idea
by Gregory Conko (March 23, 2003)
Although GM food labeling is already mandatory, advocates claim that the stronger new labeling and traceability rules will ensure that consumers have more complete information, enabling them to make informed choices. In truth, the measures will do no such thing.

space
Privatize the Space Program
by Robert Garmong (March 15, 2003)
The space program is a political animal, marked by shifting, inconsistent and ill-defined goals.

space
The Spirit of the Space Shuttle Columbia: The Essence of the American Soul
by Robert Garmong (February 6, 2003)
Only something that struck uniquely close to the American soul could have caused the degree of shock and horror with which we have responded to the Columbia disaster. The space program is the condensed essence of this American soul.
 

environment
Average Global Temperature as the "Warmest-on-Record"?
by the Greening Earth Society (December 13, 2002)
So where's the proof of the statement that global warming is increasing ever faster? These annual pronouncements are revealed to be what they are: efforts to resuscitate a dimming paradigm, that humans' use of fossil fuels results in carbon dioxide emissions that are disrupting earth's climate.

environment
How Popular Coverage of Melting Arctic Sea Ice Overlooks Relevant Long-term Research
by the Greening Earth Society (December 9, 2002)
On December 8^th both The New York Times and the Los Angles Times carried major articles in their Sunday editions about the latest measurements of a shrinking area of Arctic sea ice and how global warming is to blame despite its relatively small extent. What all of this coverage fails to mention is the strong likelihood that this year's ice extent probably is not much different than that of summers earlier in the 20^th century at a time before there could possibly have been much of a human contribution to the concentration of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, which is cited as the driver of climate change.

environment
Are the Media Giving You the Whole Story on Global Warming?
by David Holcberg (November 1, 2002)
Most media reports ignore the evidence for cooling and focus instead on records from land stations, which indicate a 1°F increase in surface temperatures during the 20th century. What they fail to report is that this increase was measured mostly in and around urban centers, and therefore indicates urban—not global—warming.

energy
The Real Threat to our Energy Supplies
by Eric Daniels, Ph.D. (October 8, 2002)
Environmentalists, who cry that we can't produce enough oil, actually regard less production as morally imperative.

physics
The Enemies of Nuclear Power
by Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (September 3, 2001)
The opposition to nuclear power is based, not on science, but on a hostility to science, technology and capitalism.

environment
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Environmentalist Mythology Killing Us Softly
by Steven Brockerman (August 11, 2002)
One would have to conclude, given the facts, that environmentalists are either insane or intent upon eradicating every human being from the face of the planet.

space
The Day the Earth Stood Still
by Steven Brockerman (July 16, 2002)
For on this day, July 16, 1969, in a spaceship called Columbia, three American astronauts – Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins – would soar into space atop the largest rocket ever built, on their way to a landing on the face of the Moon.

biology
The Morality of Genetic Engineering
By David Holcberg (June 3, 2002)
The battle next week between the bio-tech industry and environmentalists will be a battle between those who hold human life as the basic value and those who don't.

biology
We Must Protect Science
by Nicholas Provenzo (May 30, 2002)
The bill outlawing human cloning offers us a simple choice. We can either let the irrational fear of science & technology choke a budding field of great value, or we can let reason be our guide to a potentially better future.

physics
"Non-Locality" and Realism: A Brief Discussion
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (May 1 2002, Part 5 of 5)
Historically, "non-locality" is one of the aspects of QM that has been put forward by opponents of realism as evidence that no "common-sense" physical interpretation of the theory is possible.

physics
Bell's Inequality and the Case for Super-Fast "Entanglement" Interactions 
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (April 1 2002, Part 4 of 5)
The observation of Bell-inequality-violating correlations between entangled particles must be taken as evidence for some kind of super-fast "non-local" interaction.

physics
Hidden Variable Theories
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (March 1 2002, Part 3 of 5)
As discussed in my previous article, in the QM picture the "collapse of the wave function" is needed because the entire system exists in an indeterminate limbo until a measurement is made, at which time the system suddenly takes on well-defined values.  This is, of course, crazy, so we are motivated (like EPR) to hypothesize the existence of some hidden variables which supplement the description given by QM.

physics
Quantum Mechanics and Non-Locality
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (February 1 2002, Part 2 of 5)
Measuring a certain property of one of the particles, allows one to predict with certainty a property of the other particle a hundred miles away.physics > quantum mechanics

physics
An Introduction to Bell's Inequalities and Non-Locality
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (January 1 2002, Part 1 of 5)
In this series of articles, I give a simple introductory presentation of Bell's inequalities and non-locality, subjects which have been at the root of much recent controversy. 
 

physics
Hidden Variables and Relativistic Tachyons
By Eric Dennis (September 28, 2001)
Miguel Alcubierre's solitary wave solutions of the Einstein field equations offer the unexpected possibility that general relativity may prove consistent with the experimentally verified non-locality of quantum mechanics. This assuages the fear that quantum non-locality would ultimately require abandoning the mathematical structure of relativity. 

science
Proving a Negative: The "Precautionary Principle" at Odds with Science
By Bonner R. Cohen (August 2001) The precautionary principle is a lethal weapon aimed at today's most innovative products and promising scientific breakthroughs.

genetics
Corn Scare Proves Baseless News Report (August 2001)
Government researchers have released test results showing that last year's media scare involving genetically modified corn was unwarranted.

medicine 
Hygiene, Sanitation, Immunization, and Pestilential Diseases
Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD (July 2001)
In the 1950s, there were 20,000 cases of polio annually causing more than 1,000 deaths(4); many more thousand victims were left in iron lungs. This was caused because of the predilection of the polio virus for the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord and consequent paralysis of the respiratory muscles. But, what is less known, and this is quite disconcerting to me, is that between 1923-1953, before the Salk (dead virus) vaccine was discovered in 1955, the polio death rate in the U.S. and England declined on its own by 47 percent and 55 percent, respectively. 

medicine 
Jenner, Pasteur, and the Dawn of Scientific Medicine
Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD (June 2001)
Let us take a retrospective look at the history of vaccination and touch upon the development of the germ theory of disease to which it's necessarily entwined.
 
philosophy of science 
Mathematics vs. Matter: The Philosophic Roots of the Rejection of Physical Causation in 20th Century Physics Part 4
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (June 1, 2001)
As I explained in Part 3 of this series, the basic attitude of twentieth century physicists is that we shouldn't bother trying to understand the causal mechanisms underlying the equations. Doing so will get us -- in Richard Feynman's memorable description -- " 'down the drain' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped." Physics, then, is left as merely the manipulation of mathematical symbols describing subjective observer-processed appearances.

physics
Quantum Mechanics and Dissidents, Part 2
By Eric Dennis (May 12, 2001) Part 2 of 2
The failure of Little's "theory of elementary waves" (TEW), must not be taken to support the sophistry connected with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, from the idea that entities lose their attributes until we observe them to the supposed victory of indeterminism in physics...

philosophy of science 
Mathematics vs. Matter: The Philosophic Roots of the Rejection of Physical Causation in 20th Century Physics Part 3
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (May 2, 2001)
As I explained in Part 2 of this series, the projection of the mathematical laws of nature into a higher or prior existence is an obvious expression of Platonism -- and a major source of the Primacy of Mathematics in contemporary physics. It is part of the reason why causal sequences involving the material world are scorned in favor of "elegant" mathematical formalism...

interview
Mastering the Problem of Environmental Quality 
An interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer by Bonner Cohen and Jay Lehr, Ph.D. (May 1, 2001)
"I believe we have learned how to master the problem of environmental quality. Both air and water pollution have been virtually eliminated in developed nations. The main problem now is poverty in the rest of the world; once that is solved, environmental problems will be taken care of."--Fred Singer, Ph.D.

physics
Quantum Mechanics and Dissidents
By Eric Dennis (April 26, 2001) Part 1 of 2
Conventional interpretations of quantum mechanics seem to deny the existence of entities with definite properties determining how they act, independently of human consciousness. Lewis Little offers an alternative to this in his "theory of elementary waves" (TEW). The advocates of TEW believe that its lack of recognition among physicists stems from their faulty philosophic premises. In fact, it stems from TEW's failure to account for a range of key experimental results and of a clear, well known, unanswered argument that shows why a large class of theories (including TEW) could never account for certain of these results. But realism need not despair, for a genuine alternative to the standard version of quantum mechanics does exist, one becoming increasingly visible and attractive to physicists... 

letter to the editor
Lewis Little's "Theory of Elementary Waves" (TEW) Still Fails
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (April 26, 2001)
A response to Lewis Little's "TEW's local explanation of the Innsbruck Experiment".

philosophy of science 
Mathematics vs. Matter: The Philosophic Roots of the Rejection of Physical Causation in 20th Century Physics Part 2
By Travis Norsen, Ph.D.  (April 2001)
The rejection of the physical world in favor of mathematical formalism comes from the influence of two philosophers -- Plato and Kant -- and not from any 20th century scientific laboratory.

energy
The Future of Nuclear is Bright
By Herbert Inhaber (March 2001)
The world has changed dramatically in the 50 years since nuclear power first came to the U.S. The industry's future has ebbed and flowed...and today it appears poised for a dramatic comeback.

climate
Recent Warming Is Not Historically Unique
By Sallie Baliunas Ph.D. and Willie Soon Ph.D. (March 2001)
The twentieth century is not the least bit climatically unusual. So why the recent media hysteria that the twentieth century is the warmest of the last 1,000 years?

philosophy of science 
Mathematics vs. Matter: The Philosophic Roots of the Rejection of Physical Causation in 20th Century Physics Part 1
By Travis Norsen (March 2001)
Even the hard-nosed science of physics has not been immune to the influence of contemporary philosophy. In physics, this modern superficiality takes the form of mathematical formalism divorced from any reference to causal mechanisms, i.e., equations whose referents in the physical world are unknown and not sought.

genetics and junk science 
Gene Altered Corn and the Butterfly: Can Biotechnology Survive Bad Science, Media Hype, and Environmentalists?
By Terry Francl and Mark Jenner (February 2001)
The media's crusade against Bt corn was launched by a single study, poorly designed, poorly implemented, and reporting results that were not statistically significant.

environment 
Global Warming: Watson Indulges in Scare Tactics... Again
By Patrick J. Michaels Ph.D.  (January 2001)
Predicting an 11°F temperature rise in 100 years, the IPCC's new Policymakers Summary is the product of the most extreme climate model run under the most extreme set of future emission scenarios.

philosophy of science
A Preview of "The Philosophic Roots of Natural Science in Ancient Greece"
By Travis Norsen (January 2001)
Mark invited me to write a short note advertising for the course I am giving this summer on "The Philosophic Roots of Natural Science in Ancient Greece." The best way I can think of to do this is simply to explain (to those who may mistakenly think they have no interest in either Ancient Greece or Natural Science) why this topic may prove to be inspiring and exciting.

student resource
Student Survival Guide to Physics
By David Harriman [Link: ARI]
How the science of physics depends on a foundation provided by philosophy.

Leonard Peikoff Radio Show (Link ARI):
 - David Harriman on The State of Modern Physics

politics of science
Clinton Tries To Take Credit For Celera's Achievement
By David Holcberg (July 2000)
Gore invented the Internet, and Clinton Discovered the Genome? Yeh right.

psychology
Dr. Michael Hurd on Effective Therapy, Part 3
Why is the therapy that tells people such goals as emotional repair and self-improvement are not needed becoming increasingly popular?
profiles

psychology
Dr. Michael Hurd on Effective Therapy, Part 2
By Joseph Kellard (1999)
Why do you believe one of the hardest tasks that an individual will ever undertake is to let go of irrational feelings and have new, rational ideas become part of their automatic response system?

Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Man Extraordinarie By Joseph Kellard  (1999)
No life embodies the Renaissance as grandly and completely than that of Leonardo da Vinci's.

environment
Environment in Review By S. Fred Singer (1999)
El Nino and global warming: What connection?

psychology
Dr. Michael Hurd on Effective Therapy, Part I
Interview by Joseph Kellard (1998)
I was frustrated by the lack of coherent methods in the field of psychotherapy.

environment
Ten Things To Know About The Climate and Global Warming by S. Fred. Singer  (1998)
With all the hype about global warming and climate disasters, here are some facts that need to be more widely known.
 

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