About Scott
Senior Editor
Name: Scott Ogrin
Scottie is an electrical and computer engineer with a BSEE and MSEE. After working in the automotive and telecom industries in hardware and testing, he ended up as a software engineer.
He joined SOTT in 2003 as an editor, and is currently the webmaster and Chief Engineer for Sott.net.
In his spare time, he works on his popular techie blog.
Latest News
- Pelosi demands all 'reprehensible' Confederate statues be removed from Capitol
- Latest 'Economist' cover shows Trump speaking through megaphone that resembles KKK hood
- How to normalize the absurd - social engineering via media 101
- Minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay, Maine
- Mossad Chief heads delegation to White House for talks on Syria
- ID Politics: Being in Virginia in Time
- Study finds that optimism often leads people to inaction
- Washington's policy of nuclear annihilation is the problem
- 'It's very alarming': Another dead North Atlantic right whale discovered off Cape Cod; total now 13
- The deep hate of the deep state
- Wife of arrested Ukrainian saboteur Gennady Limeshko removes sniper rifle image from social media
- Witness captures video of strange object in the sky
- Israel's Air Force Chief: We attacked Syrian arms convoys almost 100 times in last 5 years
- Ignorant protesters in Atlanta vandalize 'Peace Monument' after mistaking it for a pro-Confederate symbol
- The strange and mysterious case of the 1987 Arkansas train deaths of two teenagers
- Lost the plot: Get rid of Washington and Jackson, Chicago pastor demands
- Tucker Carlson: Google should be regulated like the public utility it is to prevent it from distorting the free flow of information
- Researchers close to developing test to detect cancer long before first symptoms arise
- Mysterious people who drove off the face of the Earth never to be seen again
- BC residents puzzled by UFO bright lights that "defy physics"
- Pelosi demands all 'reprehensible' Confederate statues be removed from Capitol
- Latest 'Economist' cover shows Trump speaking through megaphone that resembles KKK hood
- Mossad Chief heads delegation to White House for talks on Syria
- Washington's policy of nuclear annihilation is the problem
- The deep hate of the deep state
- Israel's Air Force Chief: We attacked Syrian arms convoys almost 100 times in last 5 years
- Traditional Conservatives: It's time to deal with the cancer of the Alt-right
- The tweet is mightier than the sword: Trump temporarily cuts down Amazon value by $5.7bn with single tweet
- "Grown-ups" versus "ideologues"? The MSM narrative of the White House may be all wrong
- Duterte heaps praise on police who killed 32 drug suspects, encourages more deaths to help battle drug war
- U.S. news networks devote 77% of airtime to Trump's Charlottesville presser - no actual news
- Africa's pivotal role in the successful implementation of China's One Belt One Road vision
- Winds of change: Germany's Ostpolitik in the modern era
- South Korean leader vows to prevent war with North 'at all costs'
- Beijing warns no winner in trade war between US and China
- An unrepentant Steve Bannon: 'We're at economic war with China'
- Justice Dept. and DEA don't see eye-to-eye on marijuana research and MS-13 gang
- Big city wars: NATO solicits concepts for waging urban conflict
- Trump administration ends Obama era program for Central American minors fleeing violence
- Bolivian FM rejects idea of intervention in Venezuela: 'US hegemony has come to an end'
- How to normalize the absurd - social engineering via media 101
- ID Politics: Being in Virginia in Time
- Wife of arrested Ukrainian saboteur Gennady Limeshko removes sniper rifle image from social media
- Ignorant protesters in Atlanta vandalize 'Peace Monument' after mistaking it for a pro-Confederate symbol
- The strange and mysterious case of the 1987 Arkansas train deaths of two teenagers
- Lost the plot: Get rid of Washington and Jackson, Chicago pastor demands
- Tucker Carlson: Google should be regulated like the public utility it is to prevent it from distorting the free flow of information
- South Korean study finds smartphone separation anxiety is real and growing
- Grenfell Tower update - Firefighters facing disciplinary action for their actions tell what should have happened that night
- Best of the Web: Hyper-activists target Confederate monuments across U.S. as Baltimore calls for them to be torn down - UPDATES
- Sweden: Man suspected of 'honor killing' after female relatives & boys 'shook hands'
- Rape-by-cop: Dashcam footage show Texas cops subjecting woman to disgusting 11-minute vaginal search
- Migrants finding new routes to reach Europe and avoid authorities
- Inside ISIS-besieged Deir ez-Zor: Daily struggle for food, soaring prices and glimpses of hope
- PETA to pay $49,000 fine for euthanizing family dog without consent
- New poll: Approx 1 in 4 Americans would follow Trump to the end - about the same percentage of those who outright reject him
- Ukraine erects a new fascist statue while America remains silent
- Russian Justice Ministry officially lists Jehovah's Witnesses as banned extremist group
- Three employees of US Embassy detained in Houthi-controlled capital of Yemen but OCHA denies the report
- America can't substitute Russian gas in Europe even it ships it for free, meanwhile Gazprom boosts gas exports to Turkey and Southern Europe
- Paul Craig Roberts on Confederate protest controversy: Civil war propaganda has vanquished truth
- Discovery: Three ancient tombs in Egypt
- Archaeoacoustics: How the science of sound helps us understand ancient cultures
- New docs reveal Kissinger's 'secret deal' led to Japan allowing US nuclear weapons on Okinawa
- 106-year-old fruitcake found in historic Antarctic expedition hut - might still be good
- Stone slab uncovered in Spain with symbols no one can read
- 4500-year-old grave of Siberian noblewoman has links to Native Americans
- Evidence etched in stone: A compelling argument for lost high tech in ancient Egypt
- 72 Years Ago Today The US Carried Out The Worst Terrorist Attack In The History Of The World
- Researchers discover prehistoric Britons ate humans and carved patterns into their bones
- The dogfather: Modern domestic dogs traced back to genetic split from wolves up to 40,000 years ago
- Eclipses as omens: How ancients looked for meaning in the skies
- Mummified polar beauty: Archeologists unearth first female from Siberian necropolis
- An unholy alliance that never was: How North Korea and Israel almost became buddies
- Humans lived on Sumatra 20,000 years earlier than previously thought
- New study suggests ancient Egyptian pharaoh may have been a giant
- Persian bronze bowl found encasing skull of 1,000 year old Arctic chieftain's infant child
- Newly unearthed memo reveals CIA infiltration of the media
- Discovery of 2,500 year old honeycombs in northern Italy suggests Etruscans were expert beekeepers
- Carbon 14 dating and settled science
- Researchers close to developing test to detect cancer long before first symptoms arise
- Gas thermochemical fracturing: Russian scientists discover secret to producing six times more oil
- Solar eclipses and tides prove Earth's rotation is slowing down
- Science reports: Lightning is zapping fewer Americans, not more
- Seeing without eyes and the unexpected world of nonvisual photoreception
- Nearby supernova colliding into companion star observed
- Large comets more common than previously thought
- Cassini enters fiery endgame as 20 year mission reaches final phase
- Elon Musk: Artificial intelligence 'more risky' than N. Korea
- NASA will wake up New Horizons spacecraft, voyage into mysterious Third Zone
- Scientists find Earth's largest volcanic region two kilometres below Antarctic ice sheet
- Star gazers share stunning images of Perseid meteor shower (PHOTOS)
- Huge, bright storm rages on Neptune
- If you had the chance to erase your worst, most painful memories, would you do it?
- After multiple games of rock-paper-scissors, researchers determine chimps have the mentation of a 4 y.o. child
- Chinese museum breeds the world's longest stick insect
- Zeroing in: Bees are the first insects shown to understand the concept of zero
- A major blind spot in animal testing is endangering the lives of women
- Scientists predict 100ft asteroid slated to pass by Earth will burn up in the atmosphere - They hope
- NASA-funded scientists to study changes in the ionosphere during total solar eclipse
- Minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay, Maine
- 'It's very alarming': Another dead North Atlantic right whale discovered off Cape Cod; total now 13
- Flood kills at least 57 in Bangladesh with over 3,326,000 affected
- Rotten tomatoes: The real reasons Al Gores new film "Truth to Power" flopped
- Death toll from floods in Nepal climbs to 120 with about 6 million people affected
- Dead minke whale discovered off coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island
- Ten spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA
- Assam floods: Death toll increases by 39 in third wave; 123 killed to date with over 3,345,000 affected
- Police record huge increase in dangerous dog offences in Kent, UK; from 16 in 2011 to 745 in 2016
- Millions of animals dead as floods, algae blooms and disease takes it toll around the globe
- Alligator found taking a dip in Atlantic City hotel pool
- Are the lakes of Oklahoma being terrorized by a freshwater octopus?
- 30 by 40 foot sinkhole opens in west Bakersfield, California
- Nepal floods update: Death toll touches 91
- Heavy rains kill 41 across the Indian state of Bihar
- Seal bites man in Friday Harbor, Washington
- Hunter in Namibia trampled to death by elephant he was trying to kill
- Firefighters battle wildfires across Greece
- 'Mutant piglet' with two bodies and EIGHT legs dies minutes after birth in China
- Breaking News: At least 300 killed by huge mudslide after heavy rainfall in Sierra Leone
- Meteor fireball streaks over Southern California
- Meteor fireball flies over central Florida
- Asteroid Florence to sweep pass Earth on September 1st
- Homeowner who heard a loud bang discovers a 15-inch wide blazing crater in his garden in Appling, Georgia
- Experts: Loud bang over Weston, UK may have been comet or asteroid
- Meteor fireball lights up the skies over western Washington State
- Meteor fireball fragments over southern France
- Orange meteor fireball shocks skywatchers in New South Wales
- Meteorite crashes into field in Rajasthan, India
- Meteor fireball explodes over Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
- Meteor lights up night sky over Canadian province of British Columbia
- Dashcam captures meteor fireball flying over Ekaterinburg, Russia
- And another: 'Amazing' meteor fireball recorded over Cordoba, Spain
- Stunning meteor fireball seen over Madrid, Spain
- Meteor fireball flies over Andalusia, Spain
- Slow meteor fireball recorded over Mediterranean Sea
- Astronomers detect space rock 3 days after it passes close to Earth
- New Comet: C/2017 O1
- Meteor fireball observed over São Paulo, Brazil
- 'Long slow' meteor fireball seen over Hawley, Texas
- 7yr-old girl left with horrific burns after getting henna tattoo in Egypt
- Double dipping: Four companies that own the treatments for the diseases their products cause
- Natural remedies for dry eyes
- What hippocratic oath? Florida pediatricians refuse to see unvaccinated children
- Study shows older hearts could be rejuvenated with stem cells from younger ones
- Air pollution causes spikes in stress hormones and alters our metabolism
- Big increase in opioid-related admissions and deaths in nation's ICUs
- Bubonic plague tested positive on Arizona fleas, locals warned to 'take precautions'
- UK midwives renege on campaigning for natural childbirth
- How to decrease the lectin content in your food
- A vascular surgeon explains why he ditched statins for more meat and less sugar, lowering his cholesterol in the process
- The Poison business: The Monsanto papers reveal media, science, and regulatory collusion
- Why flip-flops are not the best choice for daily footwear
- Surprise! Big Pharma is hindering treatment of the opioid addiction epidemic
- 267 contaminants found in America's tap water
- Clinical Rheumatology study: Vaccine manufacturers & FDA regulators caught hiding risks of HPV vaccines
- Lung cancer rates among non-smokers doubled in the last decade; air pollution blamed
- From prescription to addiction: Investigation shows Big Pharma bribed 68,000 doctors to push deadly opioids
- Five people dead after weight-loss balloon insertion, FDA investigates
- Follow the money! The unknown reasons doctors push vaccines
- Study finds that optimism often leads people to inaction
- Human thought and water
- Reality creation? Manipulating the mass mind & attention
- Emotional intelligence in the workplace: Business leaders weigh in on what makes an exceptional employee
- Even atheists view non-believers as less moral
- The sleeping brain can learn during REM sleep
- Researchers probe the biology of transgender identity - no irrefutable conclusions found yet
- New study says women have more active brains than men
- iGen life: Have smartphones destroyed a generation?
- Neuroplasticity: The behavioral power to change your brain
- The most important question: What do you really want out of life?
- PTSD and trauma: When mindfulness isn't the best approach
- Expand your set of mental models: How to train your brain to think in new ways
- The face-name effect: Do you look like your name?
- 'You spot it, you got it': I am the reason my husband infuriates me
- Why adversity is often the instrument of growth
- Researchers crack the "smile code", identifying 3 distinct varieties of smile: Affiliation, dominance and reward
- A child's truth in a country of lies
- Need to relieve stress or regulate emotions? Try talking to yourself in the third-person
- Study suggests psychopaths learn to lie better, faster than non-psychopaths
- Witness captures video of strange object in the sky
- Mysterious people who drove off the face of the Earth never to be seen again
- BC residents puzzled by UFO bright lights that "defy physics"
- Witness in Georgia claims to have seen 'massive' metallic triangular UFO in 2008
- Argentina's plague of goblins
- Large dark being seen gliding over Elgin, Illinois
- Huge crop circle draws visitors - Farmer asking £2 donations to cover cost
- Ghosts exist... so what now?
- Are UFO abductees secretly watched?
- UFOs? mind control? abduction? "No Return" the Gerry Irwin story
- Government surveillance case: "Were motives magical, ufological or political?"
- Is the FBI still keeping a close watch on 'alien' contactees?
- The strange tale of the glowing werewolf
- 1946, Before saucers, Kareeta: UFO contact in California
- Book review: The Unseen Hand: A New Exploration of Poltergeist Phenomena
- UFOs and Disney: Behind the Magic Kingdom
- The controversy surrounding General John A. Samford's 1952 UFO "disclosure"
- North Carolina group spots a Bigfoot in the forest
- Can cats and dogs see spirits?
- When exorcists need help they call Dr. Richard Gallagher
- UK aircraft carriers named after Royal Family because they're a huge waste of money
- Credible US intel warns that North Korea may be in possession of a Godzilla
- 'Yar argoin tew farst': Village updates road signs so locals can understand them
- Cats busy celebrating Human Slave Day!
- Save the universe from alien infection! NASA seeks Planetary Protection Officer
- Leaked photos link Corbyn to known international terrorist
- Put a lid on it! Curious cockatoo shuts cheeky cat inside basket after she takes a swipe at her
- Fifty Shades of Cray? Twitterverse suggests more appropriate titles for Hillary's new memoir
- This is for Boaty: Swedish railway company accepts public vote to name new train 'Trainy McTrainface'
- 'Robot drowned': Twitter baffled by robot 'suicide' (PHOTOS)
- Golden retriever rescues drowning fawn off Long Island beach
- New NATO flag to better capture its diverse values?
- Owners shocked when family dog gives birth to mint green puppy
- Captured ISIS' fleet of high-tech Ukrainian tanks now on display in Mosul
- Melania Trump outs herself as a Russian secret agent
- 'OMG' - Child portion fish & chips coming your way due to climate change!
- Climate change obsession syndrome - Earth could face attack of flying pigs!
- Aliens influencing global politics? Massive crop circle of Putin appears in Italian field (VIDEO)
- Only MP's and Royal family need pay rise, says Chancellor
- Tim Allen's take on Political Correctness
Quote of the Day
What happened to Kennedy is nearly what happened to me. America is in danger of upheavals. But you'll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They'll do everything to stifle the scandal. They will throw Noah's cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don't want to know. They don't want to find out. They won't allow themselves to find out."
~ French president after returning to Paris from JFK's funeral on November 24th, 1963
- Charles de Gaulle
Recent Comments
All religions are cults. They are like a plague, a menace to society, spreading their sh*t everywhere.
Rewarding to learn I'm not the only one who views the Jehovah's Witnesses for what they are --- a cult.
This is all so stupid, as are these people wanting to erase history that offends them ! Its beyond words... I do have a question: Do I have the...
How discriminatory is this? Where's the Pew Research Center's polling Americans whom they would trust more in handling foreign affairs; Putin or...
Interested exchange--- Good analysis Niall, well said.
