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MH370 satellite logs released, but redactions by Malaysian government will only fuel further conspiracy theories
2014-05-27 17:13:36| Extremetech
Malaysian authorities, working with British satellite company Inmarsat, has released 47 pages of satellite logs that were used to track flight MH370 to the southern Indian Ocean. The timing on this release is significant, as Australia today announced that the deep-sea search for flight MH370 has been postponed for three months, pending a complete bathymetric (topographical) map of 60,000 square kilometers of the seabed where MH370 is thought to have crashed. As the search for the missing plane moves into its eleventh week, we yet again have to wonder whether we are looking in the right place or not. With the release of the satellite logs, can we now check if Inmarsat is right about MH370's final resting place?
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Climate Deniers Intimidate Journal into Retracting Paper that Finds They Believe Conspiracy Theories
2014-04-03 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: In February 2013, the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a peer-reviewed paper which found that people who reject climate science are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Predictably enough, those people didn't like it. The paper, which I helped to peer-review, is called "Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation'. In it, cognitive scientist Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues survey and analyze the outcry generated...
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Five Theories About What Happened to Missing Malaysia Flight
2014-03-19 10:50:10| Airlines - Topix.net
Each day that passes without a clear idea of what happened to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, new theories and possibilities are proposed about the possible fate of the jet.
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2013 Bee Summit: a clash of theories
2013-06-29 20:38:37| Chemicals - Topix.net
Earlier this month St. Louis held the Honeybee Health Summit, an initiative which is trying to focus attention on the dire situation of diminishing honeybees populations all over the world.
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Free-market fans hate climate science, heart conspiracy theories
2013-04-24 13:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Why do a determined minority -- often in positions of power - refuse to accept that climate change is happening despite the overwhelming scientific evidence? A new study may provide a clue. Researchers at the University of Western Australia found that people who expressed faith in free-market ideology were also likely to reject scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that burning fossil fuels helps to cause it. Free-market philosophy makes the case that the market operates...