The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Don't hate the player, hate the game On Patrick Brown, Science Wars, and the Academic Publishing Business JESSICA WEINKLE From the internet In a remarkable essay  at  The Free Press , Patrick Brown,  a researcher at The Breakthrough Institute,  gave the world a lesson on how the sausage is made in headline stirring climate change science. Start the research with the publication outlet end in mind. The editorial practices of elite academic journals such as  Nature , matter for how society understands the state of knowledge and how we relate to the world. On occasion matters arise that bring attention to the fraught activity of gatekeeping at the journal and its broader family of journals.  For instance, in the late 1980’s,  Nature , published a research article  under the condition  that the journal could send investigators to the lab to review the researchers’ methods. The  investigating team  included the journal’s editor, a...

  9/11- Imploding the Truth Bringing down more than steel-framed buildings DONALD JEFFRIES Yesterday, I went to New York City. If you know anything about me, you know I don’t travel much. So this was a big deal for me. My friends Billy Ray Valentine and Tony Arterburn invited me to speak at a 9/11 conference, Free World NYC. They will be starting Free World FM soon, and I’ll have a show on there. Charlie Robinson gave a great talk, and Richard Gage, who should be considered the dean of 9/11 research, presented a captivating and deeply informative slide show, which really should draw the interests of our congressional “representatives,” if we had any. I did my usual semi-standup act, mixing in lots of comedy (I hope) among the mountains of evidence proving there was a large and powerful conspiracy. Richard Gage jokes even more than I do, so we bonded immediately. Tony Arterburn insisted on buying me dinner. Someone recorded the event for an AM Wakeup show, and it will be put up onli...