Richard Zurawski

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 […]

As we become mired in our debt and talk about increasing taxes and falling populations, we seem to be stuck in the age old perceptions that Canada is a supplier of raw materials to the world. The green technologies, the manufacture of advanced car batteries, hyperstrong magnets and blades for wind turbines are all done […]

In our quest for energy, we have gone from pillar to post looking for a cheap, reliable, plentiful and safe alternative to fossil fuels. Among the host of problems with fossil fuels, not the least of which is their toll on the environment, we are running out of them, while our need for energy continues […]

In less than a month, climate representative of countries from around the world will be convening in Copenhagen to try to iron out a comprehensive plan that will deal with the heating of the planet. But ye of faint heart should take no solace or comfort that Canada’s environment minister will be there representing the […]

It is a strange world we live in. Things are rarely as they appear, nor as they are as they are supposed to be. The media, the fourth estate, those we have entrusted with what is perhaps the most important of tasks in our society, who are supposed to be the watchers, those designated with […]