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
- IRGC Chief says Israel's 'security bubble has burst' amid string of mysterious security incidents
- Spring where are you? Heavy snow hits Lapland Finland
- Unseasonal snow gives skiers chance to return to slopes in Lake District, England
- "Covert" NASA data reveals global snowfall has *Increased* over the past 40 years
- Parts of Ireland report coldest April since Records began (in 1943), as Iceland registers lowest May temperature ever
- Best of the Web: Apartheid instituted in France: Parliament approves 'Covid-19 passports for large gatherings'
- Disabled white farmer sues Biden admin over 'racist' COVID relief plan
- Afghan flash flood toll increases to 56
- Twitter quickly suspends Trump's new 'From the Desk Of' account
- Three more whales wash up dead near San Francisco — eight total in five weeks
- Rio de Janeiro: At least 25 killed in city's deadliest police raid on favela
- California schools launch segregated student 'support circles' after Chauvin verdict, apologize for offering them to white kids
- Security law: Hong Kong police cordon off pro-democracy clothing store two days after opening
- South Salt Lake City school board shuts down parents during meeting and escape out back door after refusing to listen to demands
- First wildfires are registered around the world's Pole of Cold in Yakutia
- Biological male weightlifter who identifies as female and competes against women poised to become first transgender Olympian
- Nightmare on Zuckerberg Street? Facebook wants to make sure you have the right friends with hyperlocal 'Neighborhoods' feature
- Southwest reportedly kicks family off flight over fears boy, 3, would remove mask
- US brainwashes the world
- What about the children?
- IRGC Chief says Israel's 'security bubble has burst' amid string of mysterious security incidents
- Best of the Web: Apartheid instituted in France: Parliament approves 'Covid-19 passports for large gatherings'
- US brainwashes the world
- Bolsonaro says that coronavirus possibly made in lab to wage "biological warfare"
- Anti-lockdown candidate Ayuso wins big in Madrid elections as Podemos party leader quits politics in defeat
- Former Israel PM Olmert pens warning against continued attacks on Palestinians
- The West wants Syria to die rather than work with Russia to rebuild the ravaged country
- EU's response to Moscow's pushback on sanctions shows 'mania for impunity' that will 'lead to nowhere', says Lavrov
- Florida governor signs GOP voting law critics call 'un-American'
- Anthony Fauci: A brilliant cheerleader for endless catastrophe
- COWARDS: Supreme Court declines to hear Arizona election fraud challenge
- The lost promise of free speech for everyone; Big Tech has turned the internet into a prison
- Tyrant: Philippines' Duterte orders police to arrest people for not wearing masks properly
- Trudeau seeks international allies for vaccine passport implementation
- NATO summit to discuss Ukraine's membership next month - Nuland accompanies Blinken to Kiev
- Best of the Web: The Criminalization of Dissent
- This Biden proposal could make the US a "digital dictatorship"
- 'Global reset' needed to fight pandemics, Germany's Health minister claims, as WHO & Merkel set up global policy hub in Berlin
- Iran will leave Vienna at the end of the month if Biden doesn't lift all sanctions
- Facebook oversight board upholds Trump ban, calls for further 'reexamination' to determine final penalty
- Disabled white farmer sues Biden admin over 'racist' COVID relief plan
- Twitter quickly suspends Trump's new 'From the Desk Of' account
- Rio de Janeiro: At least 25 killed in city's deadliest police raid on favela
- California schools launch segregated student 'support circles' after Chauvin verdict, apologize for offering them to white kids
- Security law: Hong Kong police cordon off pro-democracy clothing store two days after opening
- South Salt Lake City school board shuts down parents during meeting and escape out back door after refusing to listen to demands
- Biological male weightlifter who identifies as female and competes against women poised to become first transgender Olympian
- Nightmare on Zuckerberg Street? Facebook wants to make sure you have the right friends with hyperlocal 'Neighborhoods' feature
- Southwest reportedly kicks family off flight over fears boy, 3, would remove mask
- What about the children?
- Dutch ministers seek to simplify procedure to CHANGE GENDER on birth certificate, so that even a CHILD can do it
- Mom's comment may have led to New Jersey man's Capitol breach arrest
- City of Atlanta reinstates police officer fired last summer after shooting Rayshard Brooks
- Milley drops objection to change in military's sexual assault policy
- Canadian woman dies of complications after receiving AstraZeneca vaccine; chief medical officer confirms death linked to jab
- Increasing number of vulnerable House Dems signal this will be their last term
- Over half of people in democracies feel freedoms overly curbed in COVID crisis, survey says
- Asian teen called racial slur, assaulted, suffers concussion during youth basketball game in California
- Woman claiming to be a teacher stopped by LA deputy for driving while using her cell phone - repeatedly calls him 'murderer,' 'racist'
- Some experts (?) now project reaching Covid 'herd immunity' unlikely in U.S
- Oldest human burial in Kenya
- Scientists find oldest evidence of ancient human activity deep inside South African cave
- How the Pentagon started taking UFOs seriously
- Cancer rates in medieval Britain were around ten times higher than previously thought, study suggests
- World's first pregnant Egyptian mummy identified in Warsaw
- Biden erased decades of historic crimes in his speech to Congress
- Survey documents over 1000 monumental structures in Arabia dating from 7,000-years-ago
- These key similarities between Lenin's Red terror and America's Woke culture reveal Left's blueprint for complete takeover
- Early signs of man found buried in abandoned Saharan gold mine
- New Book: Social Darwinism and "The Hitler Problem"
- 20,000-seater gladiator arena from Roman era unearthed in Turkey
- Rare evidence of habitation in Scotland's Cairngorms after end of last Ice Age
- Noushabad: Iran's hidden underground city constructed around 224AD
- Recolonisation of Europe after the last ice age started earlier than previously thought
- Diets of Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples on the Great Hungarian Plain revealed in new study
- As Cuban chief Raul Castro leaves office, declassified CIA files expose how Washington planned to assassinate him
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Phillip Barlag: The Leadership Genius of Julius Caesar
- Archaeology in the ashes of Notre Dame
- Ancient DNA hints at complex social groupings in Neolithic Anatolia
- Ancient 'untouched and highly unusual' tomb discovered on Dingle Peninsula, Ireland
- Some viruses have a completely different genome to the rest of life on Earth
- SpaceX Starship rocket prototype achieves first safe landing
- New Comet C/2021 E3 (ZTF)
- Vital soil organisms harmed by pesticides - study
- Hybrid animals are not nature's misfits
- Chilean leadership calls for 'neuro-rights' as 'tsunami' of brain-altering tech reach public
- AG Carinae about to go supernova?
- Lightning and subvisible discharges produce molecules that clean the atmosphere
- Researchers develop compact on-chip device to detect electric-field waveforms with attosecond time resolution
- We now have the technology to develop vaccines that spread themselves
- 'Martian plague'? Bringing samples to Earth could cause devastating pandemic scientists warn
- US Space Force scientist says military 'human augmentation' is necessary in next decade
- The gender gap in censorship support
- Shape of light changes our vision
- Scientist: Extent of DDT dumping in Pacific is 'staggering'
- First comprehensive single-cell atlas of human teeth
- 'Deep Time' experimenters emerge from cave after 40-days
- The bro bonds of sperm whales
- Scientists probe mysterious melting of Earth's crust in Western North America
- Researchers find body's natural pain killers can be enhanced, while reducing side effects of opioids
- Spring where are you? Heavy snow hits Lapland Finland
- Unseasonal snow gives skiers chance to return to slopes in Lake District, England
- "Covert" NASA data reveals global snowfall has *Increased* over the past 40 years
- Parts of Ireland report coldest April since Records began (in 1943), as Iceland registers lowest May temperature ever
- Afghan flash flood toll increases to 56
- Three more whales wash up dead near San Francisco — eight total in five weeks
- First wildfires are registered around the world's Pole of Cold in Yakutia
- Northern Hemisphere snow mass an historic 700 gigatons above average
- Evacuations and rescues after storm triggers floods in Western Cape, South Africa
- 10 killed in flash floods across Iran
- Alberta man killed in suspected bear attack near Waiparous
- Lost Pacific grey whale spotted in French Mediterranean
- Tons of dead fish wash up on banks of Lebanon's Lake Qaraoun
- Two unbelievably huge monster-sized lava fountains at volcano in Iceland - biggest since the eruption started
- Triple waterspout action off New South Wales, Australia
- Lightning kills 15 head of cattle in Macon County, Alabama
- Coldest April in decades logged across most European nations, as our sun (once again) goes 'spotless'
- First documented case of rare red sprites in New Zealand
- Intense lightning display hits Dammam, Eastern Saudi Arabia
- SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - April 2021: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
- A huge, glowing fireball lights up the sky over Japan
- Meteor fireball spotted on deputy's dashcam in Collier County, Florida
- Flaming meteor fireball seen in Oman's sky
- Meteor fireball widely reported over southern France
- Lyrid fireball over the Mediterranean (April 23)
- Dozens report bright meteor fireball in New Hampshire skies
- Meteor fireball blaze caught on police body cam at Surfers Paradise, Australia
- Bolide over Cádiz and Málaga, Spain (April 20th)
- Fireball spotted above Bournemouth, UK
- Meteor fireball blazes over Ohio
- The amazing 'fireballs' over North Wales which have left plenty of people puzzled
- Spectacular meteor fireball flies across Spain
- Loud 'boom', shaking in Charlotte, North Carolina was not an earthquake
- Basingstoke, UK residents baffled by 'loud bang that shook the ground'
- 'What is that in the sky?' Floridians catch meteor fireball's close brush with Earth
- Bright meteor fireball turns the Central Asian night sky green
- Meteor fireball observed over Scotland
- Meteor fireball over Sevilla and Cádiz, Spain (4 April)
- Meteor fireball over Toledo, Spain (April 1)
- Fireball spotted over Oshkosh, Wisconsin
- COVID vaccines: Necessity, efficacy and safety
- Best of the Web: New Report Sheds Light on Vaccine Doomsday Cult
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - In The News: Smokers Get Less Covid | Covid Cases in India | Mental Health Crisis
- Dr. Mercola threatened into removing all articles on his site related COVID-19, Vitamins D, C and Zinc
- Significant jump this week in reported injuries, deaths after COVID vaccine
- US officials: Anxiety drove vaccine reactions in 5 states
- Censored: National Vaccine Information Center
- Five therapeutic properties of medicinal mushrooms
- Legionnaires' disease outbreak in New Jersey's prisons kept quiet by state officials
- Best of the Web: Indian study finds smokers and people in blood group O less vulnerable to Covid-19
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - The Best Reasons Not to Get a Covid Shot
- Best of the Web: Is the coronavirus vaccine a ticking time-bomb?
- Covid's IFR just keeps dropping
- MIT researchers challenge indoor social distancing rules: 'No safer at 60 feet than 6 feet'
- Covid can cause more pregnancy complications than thought - but only if the woman is suffering symptoms
- New study on face-masks highlights problems with safety and efficacy
- Covid19: Prior infection vs vaccination
- Army's own vaccine that could fight COVID variants begins clinical trials
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - Kids and Covid Shots
- Feeling hungry all the time? Study confirms link to blood glucose levels
- You can hold your ground against critical theory
- The Myth of Authority
- The virtuous narcissist
- When Men Behave Badly - A review
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Mary Balogh: The Meaning and Purpose of Romance
- Anesthesia works by changing the brain's rhythms says new research
- Mice master complex thinking with a remarkable capacity for abstraction
- Taking sex differences in personality seriously
- How dreams change under authoritarianism
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Interview with Tom Costello: Yes, Virginia, There Is a Left-wing Authoritarianism!
- Dunning-Kruger Effect: New study says ignorance and overconfidence affect intuitive thinking
- New study reveals brain basis of psychopathy
- The Slave, The Orator & The Emperor: Stoicism in the age of Covid and other insanities
- New blueprint of brain connections uncovers extensive reach of central regulator
- We have many more than five senses — here's how to make the most of them
- The "mind viruses" creating social justice warriors
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Campy Covers, Deep Psychology: Discover a Most Surprising Oasis of Virtue and Values
- Blood and soul: An essay in metagenetics
- Best of the Web: Michel Foucault, most-cited academic ever and father of woke ideology, outed as pedophile
- New study says hypnosis changes the way our brain processes information
- Pentagon whistleblower warns of UFO intelligence failure on 'level of 9/11'
- Woman gashed in the head after turtle crashes through windshield
- Cattle in rural Oregon again found dead, mutilated amid strange circumstances
- Mystery over sheep standing in concentric circles
- US Navy releases footage of pyramid-shaped 'UFOs'
- Drones that swarmed US warships are still unidentified, Navy chief says
- US military and spy agencies blocking government investigators of UFO sightings
- Former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, speaks out about the UFO phenomenon
- Airliner encountered unidentified fast-moving cylindrical object over New Mexico
- Pentagon sort of but not really admits it has been testing wreckage from UFO crashes & findings may 'change our lives forever,' expert says
- Intriguing cigar-shaped object spotted hovering motionless above California
- String of lights seen in sky near Charlotte sparks UFO debate. What was it?
- Airline pilots capture video of 'extremely bright UFO' during flight in Pakistan
- US Government paid millions to chase UFOs and werewolves
- CIA releases UFO 'Black Vault' documents early: How to see them online
- The truth is in there? 'All' of the CIA's files on UFOs are now available for download
- US agencies have less than 6 months to reveal what they know about UFOs thanks to coronavirus relief bill
- Harvard professor says alien technology visited Earth in 2017
- Large blue UFO startles Hawaii residents: Appeared to plunge into ocean
- FAA notified after large blue UFO seen above Oahu, Hawaii appeared to drop into ocean
- CIA replaces waterboarding with 12-hour lectures on intersectional feminism
- Biden relocates 20,000 National Guard troops to inner cities to snipe menthol cigarettes out of people's mouths
- Study finds anyone still wearing a mask at this point is probably just super ugly
- Dems committed to utterly destroying black man's optimism about race relations
- Best of the Web: CDC now recommends wearing a seat belt even when you're outside the car
- Biden wore mask during zoom call in case COVID had mutated into a computer virus
- LA homeless man feels unsafe as limos full of drug addicts and perverts show up in his neighborhood
- Chicago Police now required to ask for criminals' consent before arresting them
- BLM founder reminds everyone justice won't fully be served until she can buy a 5th house
- Dungeons & Dragons players rejoice! New 100-Sided die issued for determining your character's gender
- CNN introduces segment where they rant about what Trump would have tweeted if he hadn't gotten kicked off of Twitter
- College student aces final exam by just answering 'racism!' to every question
- Minneapolis business owner prudently ups her peaceful protest insurance
- Russians say LMAO after Salisbury poisoning suspects linked to explosion at Czech ammo depot: 'Did they shake Biden's stairs too?'
- BLM founder calls for abolishing police in all the areas where she doesn't live
- 'We're not tearing up the Constitution, we're untearing it,' say Dems while ripping the Constitution apart
- Minneapolis City Council to offer looting passports to 'peaceful protesters'
- In effort to boost ratings, CNN showing reruns of the Russia investigation
- Flashback: Nike releases commemorative shoe to honor looters
- Immigrant who lived off welfare dies in England
Quote of the Day
Distribution, paper supply, and news services had fallen into the hands of powerful groups able and willing to crush out any...inimical schools of public suggestion. They set about stereotyping the public mind.
- H.G. Wells
Recent Comments
Nothing new, affirmative action and EOE have been around a very long time. Interesting how the most racist people on the planet are always the...
April saw record cold temperatures in many places; here comes the next ice age.
Just google doing its job. This is particularly unfortunate because Nova Scotia doesn't have anti-SLAPP legislation (Strategic Lawsuits Against...
Small children especially before elementary school age should never be forced to wear a mask anywhere, heck none of us should be wearing them...
Notice that the article never once uses either "he" or "she", always using its name instead
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