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BACK WITH A BANG!!

I’ve been making and grading exams for the end of the semester for about three weeks, now. Today was Commencement, and all the seniors marched and got their diplomas. Now all I have left is the grading of papers written for projects in two classes - will finish and get grades posted by tomorrow (Monday).

Meanwhile: THIS ITEM is really kind of scary. If the political culture we see gaining strength in America doesn’t stop with institutions of higher learning and the main-stream media, but moves right on into our science journals…...we’re in even more trouble than it appears. The Telegraph, a British newspaper carries the story—here are the first couple of paragraphs:

Leading scientific journals ‘are censoring debate on global warming’
By Robert Matthews
(Filed: 01/05/2005)

Two of the world’s leading scientific journals have come under fire from researchers for refusing to publish papers which challenge fashionable wisdom over global warming.

A British authority on natural catastrophes who disputed whether climatologists really agree that the Earth is getting warmer because of human activity, says his work was rejected by the American publication, Science, on the flimsiest of grounds.

READ THE REST…. (Hat Tip: windsofchange.net)

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