Richard Zurawski

In spite of the incredible warm winter weather, many of us ache for the summer sun which is still a few months off. The sun and its light play a vital role in our overall health and mental well being. Our bodies and our minds are tuned to its light and warmth.
That having been said, […]

Funny how the more things change the more they stay the same. The anti-science feds are at it again.
It’s a classic case of if you have no information, then you can’t make a case for or against something. And the key to science is research. And what better way to shut up those pesky scientists […]

Undirected research … The latest federal budget has just come down from on high and if you think that the way to a prosperous, sustainable and healthy future is through science, you are destined to be sorrily disappointed.
It has been shown in case after case for the past 500 years that those countries who invest […]

Back about 20 years ago, a seminal book written by Noam Chomsky called Manufacturing Consent was published. In it, Chomsky, in wonderful detail, related the process by which the modern mass media creates a consent in the opinions that, we the consumers of the news and information, have, and think they are our own. Oscar […]

In this blog, I would like to explore the thesis that science is too important to be left to the journalists. Science is under assault on all sides these days. And the group with the greatest clout and the making the greatest negative impact to science and the role it plays in our society are […]

This is a bit of an open blog about the almost constant barrage of Global Warming Deniers emails I get from a select few who shill and recycle the same old tired debunked “facts”about Global Warming. The deluge of emails comes from the few who comb the mass news organs and especially the blogsphere and […]

Last week I began on a series of blogs about the media as it relates to science. I call it the War on Science by the media. That is to say, how big media is so involved with the business of news that it often distorts what is science for its own benefits. Big media […]

No other skirmish has given us more insight about how big money through a mass media campaign, can wax eloquent with lies, obfuscation and distortion, repackage them as the unvarnished and holy truth and then sell them to a gullible, uniformed public. Meet Big Tobacco. 
Tobacco has been around for a long time and its use […]

A recent article in the Halifax Chronicle Herald caught my eye the other day. It seems the research nuclear reactor at Dalhousie University is going to be shut down, decommissioned and dismantled. The Slowpoke — Safe Low Power Critical Experiment reactor will take about two years to shut down. According to the article, Slowpoke was […]

Recently Steve Murphy, the local CTV, Halifax supper hour news anchor and Peter Mansbridge, the CBC National anchor and CNN the US media behemoth, all felt compelled to run, as their lead stories something called “Climategate”. Late in November of 2009, a group of hackers broke into the computer facilities of one of the most […]