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
- Drone submarine & hypersonic gliders? China's parade rehearsal prompts speculation
- NATO plans to maintain dominance, new document reveals
- Support for Flemish populist party soars, aiming to be biggest party by 2024
- Ancient cold case: The Sima hominins, proto-Neanderthals
- Turkey says delivery complete of second S-400 unit from Russia
- More than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains found after death of well known abortion doctor
- Google Earth leads to remains of missing Florida man in lake for 22 yrs
- US destroyer parks in Lebanon as 'security reminder' amid Israeli-Hezbollah tensions
- Weapons of mass migration: Italy's new leftist pro-EU coalition government reopens ports to African-smuggling ships
- World's worst scientist?
- Best of the Web: Report: Russia recently prevented Israeli airstrikes targeting Syria, and Putin warned Netanyahu against attacking Lebanon
- US' claim Iran attacked Saudi oil facilities rejected as 'maximum lies'; Iran ready for war
- Natl. Sec. Adv. Charles Kupperman, in the 80's, claimed nuclear war with Russia 'winnable'
- Orthodox schism: Western European priests reject Constantinople for Moscow
- Taliban's delegation welcomed in Moscow after US abandoned peace talks
- Cameron claims it was he who talked 'peacenik' EU and 'dithering' Obama into bombing Libya
- Spy pigeons? Killer cigars? Acoustic kitties? Some of the weird ways CIA tried to win the cold war!
- Study findings: Our universe may be 2B years younger
- Taliban revokes its ban on Red Cross, will provide security guarantees
- Study prompts call for routine memory testing of teenagers
- Drone submarine & hypersonic gliders? China's parade rehearsal prompts speculation
- NATO plans to maintain dominance, new document reveals
- Support for Flemish populist party soars, aiming to be biggest party by 2024
- Turkey says delivery complete of second S-400 unit from Russia
- US destroyer parks in Lebanon as 'security reminder' amid Israeli-Hezbollah tensions
- Weapons of mass migration: Italy's new leftist pro-EU coalition government reopens ports to African-smuggling ships
- Best of the Web: Report: Russia recently prevented Israeli airstrikes targeting Syria, and Putin warned Netanyahu against attacking Lebanon
- US' claim Iran attacked Saudi oil facilities rejected as 'maximum lies'; Iran ready for war
- Natl. Sec. Adv. Charles Kupperman, in the 80's, claimed nuclear war with Russia 'winnable'
- Orthodox schism: Western European priests reject Constantinople for Moscow
- Taliban's delegation welcomed in Moscow after US abandoned peace talks
- Who benefits from the drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities?
- US predictably blames Iran for Yemen drone attacks that halted half of Saudi oil production
- Iran signs $440 million deal to develop Belal gas field it shares with Qatar
- God help us! Trump says US, Israel discussing mutual defense treaty
- Bolton revives his political action committees; endorses Congress' top 5 Republican warmongers
- Britain's Tory party may well be heading for extinction
- MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, new documents and updates
- Busted or just stupid? Photos of Juan Guaido with members of notorious Colombian drug cartel
- Hong Kong Wong calls on Trump to add 'human rights clause' to China trade talks agenda
- More than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains found after death of well known abortion doctor
- Google Earth leads to remains of missing Florida man in lake for 22 yrs
- Taliban revokes its ban on Red Cross, will provide security guarantees
- Chaos erupts in Nantes amid 44th week of protests against Macron's economic policies
- Rule, Britannia! Hong Kong protesters sing ex-colonial sovereign's anthem
- Site of mall fire in Russia that killed 37 children turned into memorial 'Park of Angels'
- Over 70 arrested in immigration protest at NYC Microsoft store
- Russia's floating nuclear power plant reaches Arctic coast, will be operational before year-end
- Iraqi security forces detain terrorist group plotting attack against Shiite pilgrims
- AR-15's are flying off the shelf after AZ gun store introduces the 'Beto Special'
- Watch anti-govt protesters fight with Beijing supporters in Hong Kong mall - Overall tourism down 40%
- Ryanair 'systems failure' grounds planes across Europe
- Volunteer battalions hand in weapons in E. Ukraine
- 'Tradition is important to us': Swedish town rebels against LGBT rainbow flag on city hall
- Yemeni Houthis claim drone strikes on Saudi oil sites
- Rukban camp authority blocked UN evacuation, civilians to be used as shields
- New York AG says Sacklers used Swiss accounts to transfer $1 billion from pharma accounts to themselves
- Ho ho NO! PC Scrooges take their war on Christmas to Australia
- Gender insanity: BBC tells primary schoolchildren there are 'over 100 genders'
- 'Become other than white' - Ireland and radical Jewish activism
- Ancient cold case: The Sima hominins, proto-Neanderthals
- Cameron claims it was he who talked 'peacenik' EU and 'dithering' Obama into bombing Libya
- Spy pigeons? Killer cigars? Acoustic kitties? Some of the weird ways CIA tried to win the cold war!
- RFK's son claims 'compelling evidence' his father was assassinated by a CIA operative
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: America Before: Comets, Catastrophes, Mounds and Mythology
- Alliance between Berlin & Warsaw? New docs reveal what pushed USSR towards Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- Two weeks of terror: 20 years ago, Russians went to bed fearing their home was next to be bombed
- Explorers discover huge 'lost' ice cave with 3 floors, walkways and giant hall in Antarctica
- Ruins suggest Britons had bathhouses before Roman occupation
- Neanderthal footprints found in France offer snapshot of their lives
- Large '1,400-year-old Pictish cemetery' uncovered in Scotland's Highlands
- Best of the Web: How the murder of a top scientist exposed the CIA's barbaric mind control experiments
- Demythologizing the roots of the New Cold War
- Earliest direct evidence of milk consumption found in prehistoric British farmers
- Russia, WWII and the forgotten liberation of Majdanek concentration camp
- Burned buildings reveal sacking of ancient Turkish city 3,500 years ago
- Earliest spread of millet agriculture outside China linked to herding livestock
- Archeologists in awe at 2,100 year old iPhone-like belt buckle unearthed in Atlantis grave in Siberia
- The legacy of Israel's first person to refuse military service
- 100 years ago Sears invented society's most disruptive technology
- Study findings: Our universe may be 2B years younger
- Hypersexual zombie cicadas infected with psychoactive fungus discovered
- A new understanding of disease - the 'pathobiome'
- MIT engineers have developed the 'blackest black' material to date
- Failed GM mosquito control experiment may have strengthened wild bugs
- 'Behaving like a comet': Astronomers discover enormous exoplanet with wild, slingshot-like orbit
- Bone marrow may be the missing piece of the fertility puzzle say researchers
- Johns Hopkins to open new $17 million psychedelic research center for treatment of numerous disorders
- A first: Quantum physicists successfully teleport a Qutrit
- Steven Pinker is wrong, international conflict is not declining
- Peppered moths and more: Intelligent design takes ownership of evolution icons
- A device that can mass-produce human embryoids created by scientist
- Is Earth unique? First 'habitable' world with water in atmosphere discovered by astronomers
- More junk: US Air Force restricts Boeing KC-46 from carrying cargo and passengers
- Discovery of two new species of eel shocks biologists
- The ultimate face control: Facial recognition technology could enslave mankind like never before
- Physicists finally nail the proton's size, and hope dies
- Monumental university study: 'Fire did not bring down Tower 7 on 9/11'
- All comets in our solar system may come from the same place
- Lost continent buried beneath Europe uncovered by geologists
- World's worst scientist?
- Horseshoe fire: 200-acre brush fire forces mandatory evacuations near San Jacinto, California
- 210,000 lightning strikes recorded in Sweden this year, a six-fold increase on 2017
- Six family members killed by landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in Nepal
- NOAA sees dramatic increase of ice seal deaths in Bering and Chukchi seas
- British Columbia sets new record for lightning strikes with 422,000 this year - way above average
- RT team nearly attacked by polar bear while making wildlife film in Russia
- SOTT Focus: Did Earth 'Steal' Martian Water?
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Wheat scarcity import-export shell game begins
- Extreme weather displaced a record seven million in first half of 2019
- Late spring snowfall on the Matroosberg, South Africa - up to 8 inches deep
- Lightning bolt kills 8 youths in Jharkhand, India
- Six earthquakes in five days reported near Cherokee, North Carolina
- Lightning bolt kills 23 cows near Annona, Texas
- Orange alert as Villarrica volcano rumbles in southern Chile
- Huge sinkhole swallows two cars after opening up in Shanxi, China
- Hippo kills fisherman in Lake Naivasha, Kenya - 11th such death for the locality this year
- Torrential rain inundates Valencia region of Spain for second month in a row - Two dead as storm washes away hundreds of cars, spawns tornadoes
- Early snowfall in Norilsk, Russia
- First snow of the season falls on Colorado's highest peaks
- Meteor fireball streaks across the North Carolina sky
- Double feature: Not one but TWO asteroids set to fly by Earth this weekend
- Big bright meteor fireball spotted in the Netherlands
- Newly discovered interstellar object is heading our way
- Meteor fireball streaks across San Antonio, Texas sky
- Meteor fireball lights up sky over Rīga, Latvia
- Mysterious sonic boom-like noise baffles residents in Glasgow, Scotland
- 'It got bigger and bigger and bigger and popped': Meteor fireball sighted off Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand
- Bright slow-moving meteor fireball recorded over the English Channel
- Mystery boom resounds throughout northern New York; shakes buildings
- NASA turned blind eye to car-sized asteroid that exploded over Caribbean
- Bright flash of light, loud boom filmed in Acworth, Georgia
- Meteor fireball caught on home surveillance camera over Nutley, New Jersey
- American Meteor Society: Loud boom heard in central New York caused by meteor
- What was that loud boom heard in northern York County, Pennsylvania?
- Bright meteor fireball streaks over Edmonton, Canada
- Loud flat-shaking 'explosion' panics residents of Glasgow, Scotland
- Meteor fireball lights up western sky in Washington and British Columbia
- Thunderous mystery boom rattles central Maryland
- Bright meteor fireball reported over north Alabama
- Cannabis compounds hold promise as a PTSD treatment
- Mandatory vaccination is tyrannical: The true purpose of California Vaccine Bill SB276
- Setting the stage for climate sickness: Global warming hoax leaves authorities unprepared to address potential health crisis from extremes of cold
- Enforced malnourishment: Swan School in Oxford offers vegetarian-only lunches, pack lunches are banned
- Flashback: Records found in dusty basement undermine decades of dietary advice promoting vegetable fats over animal fats
- Nicotine is not the culprit: Vaping crisis ignores oil-based additives in cannabis products
- Why Americans are so deathly afraid of going to the hospital...
- Bees suffer dementia due to metal pollution: Aluminium contamination may be behind insect decline
- Montreal moves to ban glyphosate pesticide amid health and environmental concerns
- Commonly prescribed antibiotics may lead to heart problems
- Crack team of scientists discovers secret weapon to neutralize HIV... by accident
- The Australia-first study: Alcohol causes most overall harm of any drug
- Destructive farming is the issue — not whether you eat meat or vegetables
- Unexplained disease kills dozens of dogs across Norway
- CDC urges avoiding e-cigarettes amid rash of lung illnesses and deaths linked to chemical exposures from vaping
- Vegans and vegetarians may have higher stroke risk
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health #30 - Gene Tech - What the Heck!?
- Three people have now died from lung disease after vaping
- New study links sugar-free sodas to higher risk of death
- 2nd person in US dies from lung disease linked to vaping
- Study prompts call for routine memory testing of teenagers
- Confirmation bias: People will accept anything as true if it confirms their beliefs
- When false claims are repeated, we start to believe they are true - but behaving like a fact-checker can help
- New clues in understanding near-death experiences
- The importance of searching and testing ourselves for truth
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Meaning of the World's Mythologies
- Genetic markers found that link to being left-handed
- Why transhumanists' search for earthly immortality is misguided
- Kill your inner John Bolton
- Is psychology building a house of cards?
- Human perception of colour doesn't rely entirely on language
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: T.C. Lethbridge And The Psi-Science Of The Pendulum
- Snorting powdered toad secretions just once is linked to feeling happier for a month
- The humans are waking up (maybe)
- Similar brains but mouse studies don't always tell the right story
- DNA intelligence tests ignore reasons why kids succeed
- The ancient Roman cure for panic attacks
- Bias against left-handers
- The toll that pathological narcissism takes on loved ones
- The problem of mindfulness: Panacea for all manner of modern ills?
- A Taos Close Encounter of the Hunters and Aliens Kind
- UFO seen grazing past Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico
- "Missing 411: The Hunted": David Paulides discusses bizarre disappearances of hunters
- Oregon cattle killings, mutilations alarm ranchers
- Missing 411? Massive 20-agency search for missing firefighters during fishing trip called off
- Fact or fiction? One theory 'remains plausible' in Loch Ness monster search
- Are recent UFO announcements part of the military's 'soft disclosure' strategy?
- Best of the Web: What, AGAIN?! 'Looping' fireball seen in the sky over Northampton, UK
- 'Experienced' hiker goes missing in Northern California mountains, search begins - Update
- SOTT Focus: Missing European Teenager Found Dead in Malaysian Jungle Under Mysterious Circumstances - Another Missing 411 Case?
- David Paulides: 'People are vanishing in urban areas'
- Could light and noise from Earth attract aliens?
- Congressman Mark Walker Wants To Know if Elizondo's UFO Debris Claim is True
- Another snake-like UFO spotted as mystery object 'emits energy beam' over Washington
- Plane passengers stunned as 'UFO splits into six pieces and vanishes in mid-air'
- Video shows mysterious lights in sky over Tucson, Arizona
- Navy source reveals that UFO sightings were 'daily occurrence' across multiple squadrons in 2014-15
- Mysterious floating White Orbs spotted in Kansas City sky
- Blackbird of Chernobyl: Staff claimed to have seen creepy Mothman-like creature before blast
- US senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
- Sitting on a gold mine? Thieves steal £1mn toilet from UK palace
- No joke: London aquarium helps gay penguins get woke... they now have genderless chick
- The Raging Dumpster Fires of America ask people to stop comparing them to politicians
- Jonathan Pie: The Tory Purge!
- Biden says he was at Mount Doom 3,000 years ago when Isildur took the Ring and the strength of men failed
- Epic trolling: 'Error' page on Trump's website shows Hillary Clinton as President
- In the doghouse: Canine car crash culprit caught behind the wheel
- Ocasio-Cortez proposes counting white people's ballots as three-fifths of a vote
- Strip down, saddle up: Naked bikers hit Philadelphia streets
- Reality under fire for not clearly distinguishing itself from satire
- Tom Cruise 2020 - Run Tom Run (Presidential Campaign Announcement)
- Concerning survey finds too many people believe Snopes is a legitimate fact-checking website
- Troll Trump promises not to build Trump Tower in Greenland if he buys it
- A raccoon was 'living his best life' in a school's snack machine. Then came the cops
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Our Favorite Books, Films And Shows So Far This Year
- Denmark offers to buy U.S.
- Sauron builds a wall to prevent one from simply walking into Mordor
- Didn't take long - MSNBC host blames RUSSIA for Jeffery Epstein death
- Better late than never? Russian priest say Darwin 'renounces' his 'ape theory' in posthumous chat
- Your field guide to Russian assets in America
Undulatus Asperatus clouds over San Donato in northern Italy, September 5th, 2019
Quote of the Day
I find that when people are truly searching to understand, they can find the right sources, especially in this information age. Likewise, when people are confronted with an uncomfortable reality that jars an existing belief, they can turn around and find what they need to prove that they were right all along.
- Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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