BBC
Thursday, 17 March, 2005, 11:30 GMT A fireball created in a US particle
accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist
has said.
It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds. Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole. Comment: Disinformation
becomes a standard in the media. It is necessary to be able to spot
disinformation so as not to be its victim. How can we do it? Is
there a method? Sometimes it is difficult if one is not an expert
in the given area. Sometimes it is difficult even for an expert, as
there are many experts who are experts in their domain, but not in
the domain of disinformation! Experts are often naive; they easily
become tools in the hands of economic and political manipulators.
But ad rem: here we have News from BBC news service. The news
starts with, "A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has
the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said." Our
attention should be drawn to the phrase "a physicist has said."
When we see such a statement, that usually means that the person
has no scientific record, that is someone not known by previous
achievements. Then comes the name "Horatiu Nastase says his
calculations show...". So we learn the name of "a physicist" and we
do our search. The search brings us to Horatiu
Nastase's Homepage and we see that we are dealing with a young
postdoc.
Extra-Terrestrial Weekly Newsletter makes our poor Horatio "a Brown University Professor" while Science 24 blatantly states that he (Horatio) has created a black hole (!): At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider particle accelerator in Upton, New York, physicist Horatiu Nastase may have created a black hole. (BBC)BBC was then crediting Horatiu Nastase as "His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is reported in New Scientist magazine." Whenever we see "arxiv.org" we should be alerted. Bad things have happened to arxiv.org in the last ten years and its policies are being rightly criticised. See Carlos Castro's "My Struggle with Ginsparg (arXiv.org) and the Road to Cyberia: A Scientific-Gulag in Cyberspace" and Tony Smith's "arXiv Blacklisting and the World of Physics". (By the way, among the members of the "Advisory Board" of arxive.org, the most popular first name is David!) Good papers are being blacklisted, and nonsensical papers are accepted due to the support of anonymous "endorsers". New Scientist also became a tool of disinformation, often propagating nonsense for the sake of attracting the public and diverting attention from the real problems of science. Checking newsgroups about the black hole we find, in March 2005: "Horatiu Nastase thinks so, but an informal census reveals his work is very controversial." After March 2005, nobody talks about Horatiu Nastase on newsgroups, and in his December 2005 paper, he ends with : Thus as we advocated in "The RHIC fireball as a dual black hole", we have shown that we can describe the gravity dual picture for high energy scattering completely in terms of field theory, but we have seen the limitations of field theory in terms of calculability. The thermal property of black holes in the gravity dual is easily understood as the thermal property of "horizons" in the effective pion field. The colliding pion field shockwaves are seen as being just boosted versions of nucleons. The nucleons are described as solutions of an effective action, and lead to good qualitative features for the description of nuclei.Which means: there is nothing extra-ordinary, just another speculation. Next time you see a sensational title from the BBC or New Scientist, ask yourself: "Do really I believe it? Or is someone playing games with me?" |
18/01/2006 - 16:29:05
The pituitary glands of hundreds of dead
children were removed without their parents’ consent for
manufacturing human growth hormones during the seventies and
eighties, the Madden Report found today.
Between 1976 and 1988, almost 14,000 glands were removed – around 10% of which were from children – by staff at 26 hospitals in Ireland. The report by Dr Deidre Madden into organ retention said hospitals were paid a nominal amount to remove the glands which were used by two international pharmaceutical companies. Comment: Is this
evidence enough of the psychopathic nature of those that inhabit
the worlds of big business and big government?
|
Ted Chamberlain
January 10, 2006 Stealing a last, long-lashed glance at a camera in Islamabad, Pakistan (map), yesterday, a camel sold for slaughter waits to be loaded onto a truck. Purchased for the equivalent of nearly a thousand U.S. dollars, the animal was one of many sheep, goats, camels, and cows sacrificed around the world during Id al-Adha, the annual four-day Muslim festival of sacrifice. The sacrifices commemorate the story of Ibraham (Abraham) and his son, wherein Allah (God) tested Ibrahim by telling him to sacrifice the child, then allowed Ibrahim to sacrifice a ram instead. Muslim families are encouraged to keep a third of the resulting meat for themselves. Another third is to go to the needy, and the final third to friends and neighbors. |
WND - Nature
Dec. 8 issue NASA scientists are about to publish
conclusive studies showing abundant methane of a non-biologic
nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding that
validates a new book's contention that oil is not a fossil
fuel.
"We have determined that Titan's methane is not of biologic origin," reports Hasso Niemann of the Goddard Space Flight Center, a principal NASA investigator responsible for the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer aboard the Cassini-Huygens probe that landed on Titan Jan. 14. |
Created: 18.01.2006 11:49 MSK (GMT
+3)
MosNews |
AP
17 Jan 06 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Augustine Volcano
erupted Tuesday morning, sending an ash plume 8 1/2 miles into the
air, officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said.
Comment: Oddly enough,
the following headline "Officials say explosive eruption of Alaska
volcano is more likely" (dated 17 Jan 06) shows up on a yahoo news search, but clicking the link leads
to a 404 error. Going to the root of the linked site and searching
for "volcano" gives us only the story above as the "latest" on the
volcano.
|
Waythomas, C. F., and Waitt, R. B.
"Augustine Volcano is a 1250-meter-high
stratovolcano in southwestern Cook Inlet about 280 kilometers
southwest of Anchorage and within about 300 kilometers of
more than half of the population of Alaska. Explosive
eruptions have occurred six times since the early 1800s (1812,
1883, 1935, 1964–65, 1976, and 1986).
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Alaska Volcano Observatory
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Kiowa County
Deb Farris January 11, 2006 |
John Roach
for National Geographic News January 12, 2006 About 1.8 billion years ago, a meteorite
or comet the size of Mount Everest slammed into what is now
Canada.
According to James Mungall, a University of Toronto geologist, the impact turned part of the Earth's crust inside out and dusted the surface with a rare metal. Comment: Question is,
could such an even have happened more recently? Say... 12,000 years
ago or so?
|
SOTT
January 18, 2006 |
Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:35 PM GMT167
By Siobhan Kennedy DUBLIN (Reuters) - Scientists in Ireland
may have found the country's most fertile male, with more than 3
million men worldwide among his offspring.
The scientists, from Trinity College Dublin, have discovered that as many as one in twelve Irish men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a 5th-century warlord who was head of the most powerful dynasty in ancient Ireland. |
Maryann Mott
for National Geographic News January 11, 2006 Researchers say they have solved an
11-million-year-old puzzle: how a single feline-like ancestor in
Asia spread throughout the world and developed into all modern cat
species.
Cats are native to all continents except Australia and Antarctica, and the 37 wild and domestic species living today belong to one of the world's most successful carnivore families. |
National Geographic
May 10, 2005 |
Helen Phillips
NewScientist.com news service 23 January 2006 WHAT if there was a drug that helped you
do your job better, and your boss was pressuring you to take it,
even though it could be bad for your health? There are already
drugs that can boost memory or alertness, but whose long-term
effects are unknown. Or what if scientists could tell what you were
thinking or planning to do before you knew it yourself? Brain scans
can now do this.
Should these drugs and procedures be regulated - or permitted at all? That is the inspiration for the "Meeting of minds" project, a brainchild of Belgian organisation the King Baudouin Foundation. For the past two years, a citizens' panel of 126 Europeans from different age groups and backgrounds has been considering the ethical dilemmas emerging from brain science research. This weekend they are meeting in the Belgian capital, Brussels, to finalise their recommendations before presenting them to the European Parliament on 23 January (see "Causes for concern"). |
January 23, 2006 - 4:44PM
The Sydney Morning Herald Plants are not unlike humans. They can
talk to each other and even call in reinforcements when the going
gets tough.
Who says so? Australian gardener Don Burke and Australian National University chemistry Professor Ben Selinger, in reviewing research on plants over the past 10 years, have come to the conclusion that many plants have human qualities. They say plants can communicate with each other by using a range of chemical signals. |
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Published: 23 January 2006 Doctors have found statistical evidence
that alternative treatments such as special diets, herbal potions
and faith healing can cure apparently terminal illness, but they
remain unsure about the reasons.
A study of patients with incurable lung cancer who were given weeks to live and received only low-dose radiotherapy to make their final weeks more comfortable found a small number recovered completely. |
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Tuesday January 24, 2006 The Guardian · DNA study
supports call to reclassify chimpanzees
· 'Historic differences' may not be so great, tests find They already use basic tools, have rudimentary language and star in TV commercials, but now scientists have proof that chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than other great apes. Genetic tests comparing DNA from humans, chimps, gorillas and orang-utans reveal striking similarities in the way chimps and humans evolve that set them apart from the others. |
AFP
24 Jan 06 Europe's relentless deep freeze, with
sub-zero temperatures as far south as Sicily, claimed several dozen
more victims, while closing schools and disrupting air, road and
sea traffic.
Temperatures as low as minus 36 degrees Celsius (minus 33 degrees Fahrenheit) crippled power grids, burst frozen water pipes and caused thousands of road accidents in a swath of eastern Europe from the Baltic states in the north to Turkey, Greece and Italy. |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-24 19:59:27
ANKARA, Jan. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Severe
winter, particularly heavy snowfall, paralyzed daily life
throughout Turkey as traffic was hampered and villages were
isolated, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported
Tuesday.
Ferry and sea shuttle services between Istanbul, the largest Turkish city, and Yalova, Mudanya and Erdek respectively have been cancelled due to heavy snowfall, according to the report. |
USGS
24 Jan 06 4.3 15:56:37 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF
KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
2.6 15:49:38 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 4.7 13:17:56 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS 4.4 10:30:14 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS 3.6 08:48:48 GULF OF ALASKA 2.6 08:11:11 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 5.3 07:49:25 SOUTH OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS 2.9 05:20:38 CENTRAL ALASKA 5.5 04:27:10 PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE 4.6 03:06:09 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 4.9 02:15:45 NEAR THE WEST COAST OF COLOMBIA 5.1 00:36:49 VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-24 12:53:20
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SOTT
January 24, 2006 |
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