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
- The 'Cancel Culture' of Israel Lobby in Canada
- Poland will not be 'blackmailed' into accepting European Union laws, PM Morawiecki says
- Email confirms Loudoun County school board knew about alleged sexual assault on day it happened
- Twitter locks Republican Congressman's account, claims calling a man a man is 'hateful' 'violence'
- UK government threatens harsh 'plan B' lockdown, warning of 'triple whammy' of flu, RSV, and Covid, amid staffing shortages
- DHS pays over $455K to build 'security fencing' around Biden's beach home
- Massive flooding in Algiers, Algeria
- UK: Stabbing in Lymington leaves 1 dead & 2 injured
- Floods, landslides kill at least 111 in Nepal - 14 inches of rain in 24 hours (UPDATES)
- Epigenetics: Immunization is passed on to offspring, mouse study shows
- Strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake - Philippine Sea, 33 km southeast of Yilan, Taiwan
- Elite athlete explains vaccine injury and doctors' ignorance
- Scientists find strange black 'superionic ice' that could exist inside other planets
- Debunking CIA and MI6 Syria narratives - one by one
- Palestinian workers will need vaccine proof to cross checkpoints
- Another 'Let's go, Brandon' song goes viral with nearly 1 million views
- 'It's absolutely appalling': Unvaccinated Canadians become social outcasts and the new persecuted minority
- Earth's spin has slowed, but we still may need a negative leap second
- US intelligence agencies issue 'dire warning over climate change' - what's in it for them?
- The Great Resignation? First-time data map shows where Americans are quitting jobs the most
- Poland will not be 'blackmailed' into accepting European Union laws, PM Morawiecki says
- DHS pays over $455K to build 'security fencing' around Biden's beach home
- Debunking CIA and MI6 Syria narratives - one by one
- 'It's absolutely appalling': Unvaccinated Canadians become social outcasts and the new persecuted minority
- US intelligence agencies issue 'dire warning over climate change' - what's in it for them?
- The world according to President Putin
- Best of the Web: Lithuania vaccinated ~75% of its adults and instituted a very strict vaccine pass program: Rates are still rising, but civil liberties are vanishing
- CNN torched by real journalists for 'embarrassing' statement on Joe Rogan: Sounds like an 'advocacy group,' not a news network
- Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism
- Biden delays release of JFK assassination records, blaming COVID-19 pandemic
- Infection rates for vaccinated at double that of unvaccinated, UKHSA suggests vaccines may hobble the immune response on infection
- The decay of science in the age of lockdowns
- Biden administration said it left 100 Americans in Afghanistan, now admit it is far more
- US officials walk back Biden's remarks on Taiwan, say 'strategic ambiguity' policy has not changed
- Putin slams restrictions against RT DE as an attack on 'freedom of speech' but warns against any counterproductive retaliation
- WH tries to spin as Biden loses more support than anyone in office since WWII
- Best of the Web: Russian Lockdown Lite: Moscow mayor decrees another two weeks of 'non-working days' to 'lower Covid infection rates'
- SOTT Focus: Putin Warns Wokeness is Destroying West: "It Happened in Russia 100 Years Ago, it's Evil, and it Destroys Values"
- Trump to form own media company, social platform to counter censorship
- Uptick in Israeli illegal settler attacks serves Bennett government policy: Terrorize Palestinians and steal more land
- The 'Cancel Culture' of Israel Lobby in Canada
- Email confirms Loudoun County school board knew about alleged sexual assault on day it happened
- Twitter locks Republican Congressman's account, claims calling a man a man is 'hateful' 'violence'
- UK government threatens harsh 'plan B' lockdown, warning of 'triple whammy' of flu, RSV, and Covid, amid staffing shortages
- UK: Stabbing in Lymington leaves 1 dead & 2 injured
- Elite athlete explains vaccine injury and doctors' ignorance
- Palestinian workers will need vaccine proof to cross checkpoints
- Another 'Let's go, Brandon' song goes viral with nearly 1 million views
- The Great Resignation? First-time data map shows where Americans are quitting jobs the most
- Wait, what? Virginia school board sues FOIA recipients for receiving FOIA'ed documents it handed to them
- Brian Laundrie's autopsy is INCONCLUSIVE: Remains found in Florida reserve sent to an anthropologist
- New (fake?) Facebook 'whistleblower' emerges with explosive claims on hate speech
- Outrage forces National School Boards Association to pen apology for comparing parents to 'domestic terrorists'
- Best of the Web: Baldwin shooting incident: Court documents reveal Assistant Director - who worked on The Crow sequel - unknowingly handed actor loaded gun
- Devastating explosion at gunpowder production facility near Russian city of Ryazan leaves 16 people dead & one badly injured
- Parts shortages hit auto repair shops, taking weeks to fix vehicles
- US retailers lining store shelves with props to hide supply shortages caused by lockdowns
- China-linked campaign pushes unfounded claim tying Maine lobster to COVID: report
- NIH changes story, confirms it funded Wuhan experiment that made bat coronavirus more dangerous
- Anti-Asian hate crimes 'up 76 per cent' in Los Angeles County
- 60,000 years ago humans lived in the rainforests of Laos
- Oldest evidence of humans on Tibetan plateau may also be handprint art
- Vikings present in North America in 1021 C.E., new dating in Newfoundland suggests
- The Hopewell Airburst Event
- Hundreds of ornate, rock-cut tombs discovered in 1,800 year old ruins of Turkish city
- In COINTELPRO, FBI used anarchism to 'disrupt' leftist groups, attack Vietnam & USSR
- Oldest drawing of ghost found on 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet in British Museum vault
- Not 'out of Japan' - Native American origins debunked by genetics and skeletal biology
- Earliest evidence of tobacco use dates to over 12,000 years ago says new study
- The unearthing of Ireland's mysterious sweathouses
- Oldest footprints of pre-humans identified in Crete
- Breaking the News: How the first media moguls shaped history
- Declassified CIA files raise further questions about US complicity in Colombian massacres
- Zbigniew's Ghost: An Exorcism (A Book Review of Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond)
- Italian sailors knew of America 150 years before Christopher Columbus, new analysis of ancient documents suggests
- Guterres and the Great Reset: How Capitalism Became a Time Bomb
- Triceratops' 'lost relative' that lived in New Mexico is named after CNN founder Ted Turner
- Who really runs the Middle East?
- The gradual discovery of eyeglasses
- Late Persistence of human ancestors at the margins of the monsoon in India
- Scientists find strange black 'superionic ice' that could exist inside other planets
- Earth's spin has slowed, but we still may need a negative leap second
- Mammoths survived in Siberia until just 3,900 years ago, climate change likely responsible for extinction, new study reveals
- Chinese scientists build anti-satellite weapon that can cause explosion inside exhaust
- Physicists announce results that boost evidence for new fundamental physics
- Mosquitos from East Asia spreading throughout Europe could be vector for viruses - study
- Lockdown: Where did 'the science' come from?
- Infrared light therapy appears to aid dementia patients
- New evidence suggest Earth tipped on its side 84 million years ago
- Over a thousand cosmic explosions in 47 days detected by FAST
- Japanese astronomers record possible impact event on Jupiter
- Best of the Web: Swarm of near-Earth comets linked to recent ice giant Encke's breakup
- 'Volcanic' comet 29P blows its top in superoutburst creating coma wider than Jupiter
- Our solar system may be surrounded by magnetic tunnel-like structure
- The mathematics of the amazing sandpile
- Drug to calm cytokine storm: Life-saving Russian discovery could be key to stopping body's 'suicide attack' in severe Covid cases
- Scientists 'create' world's coldest temperature inside lab
- The mega-comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein will get as close as Saturn in 2031
- Android phones send device, user 'identifier' data to manufacturers & Big Tech firms offering 'pre-installed' apps, new study says
- Strange radio waves emerge from the direction of the galactic center
- Massive flooding in Algiers, Algeria
- Floods, landslides kill at least 111 in Nepal - 14 inches of rain in 24 hours (UPDATES)
- Strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake - Philippine Sea, 33 km southeast of Yilan, Taiwan
- Strong wind in Moscow collapses scaffolding at Kremlin's wall
- 'Exercise extreme caution': 40 shipping containers lost in rough seas off Vancouver Island
- Alicante province in Spain suffers widespread flooding
- Untimely snow damages apple orchards in South Kashmir
- 'Long and strong' earthquake rattles New Zealand, initial measurement at 5.9 magnitude
- Torrential rainfall triggers deadly floods in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire - 2.3 inches of rain in just 30 minutes
- Tornado damages Brisbane airport as supercell storm batters south-east Queensland, Australia - Almost 4 inches of rain in an hour reported
- Child apparently killed in attack by family dog in Creek County, Oklahoma
- Mud volcano Shugo erupts in Krasnodar Krai, Russia
- Storm Aurore blasts parts of Western Europe leaving 250,000 French homes without power - 109 mph winds recorded
- Manam Island volcano erupts in Papua New Guinea
- At least 13 people dead due to heavy snowfall in Uttarakhand, India
- 2 of family killed in lightning strike in West Bengal, India
- 6.0-magnitude quake hits south of Fiji Islands: USGS
- Lighting kills 11 cows simultaneously in Cambodia
- 5.33 million rai (2.1 mill. acres) of agricultural areas affected by floods since Sept 1 in Thailand
- Lightning strike kills 2 people in Ghana
- Meteor fireball seen over central USA
- Meteor fireball seen over northeast US and Canada
- Meteor fireball over Seattle on October 19
- Meteor fireball seen over Hungary
- Meteor fireball over central Spain (October 21)
- 'I've never been so scared in my life': Golden, B.C. woman nearly hit by meteorite
- Meteor fireball seen over Texas and other states
- Meteor fireball over Spain on October 19
- Meteor fireball over California on October 19
- Meteor fireball over California and 3 other states
- Dramatic moment meteor fireball streaks across the sky above Leicester, UK
- Meteor fireball seen over California
- Meteor fireball over Spain on October 13
- Meteor fireball seen over Georgia and 6 other states
- British Columbia woman awakes to a hole in her roof and a space rock on her pillow
- Meteor fireball crosses the sky over Alsace, France
- Meteor fireball over central Spain (Oct. 4)
- Meteor fireball over Granada, Spain (3 October)
- Meteor fireball turns night into day over Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming
- Meteor fireball crosses cities in Minas Gerais and lights up Copacabana's sky in Brazil
- Epigenetics: Immunization is passed on to offspring, mouse study shows
- CDC Director: Fully vaccinated definition to be updated
- New Zealand's COVID-19 cases hit record despite vaccination push
- Comparison of official govt reports suggest fully vaccinated developing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome much faster than anticipated
- Putting the pandemic's death toll into perspective
- Comparing all-cause mortality rate by age group: Vaccinated vs unvaccinated
- Daily Sceptic: Vaccine safety update
- FDA, CDC ignore damning report that over 90% of a hospital's admissions were vaxxed for Covid-19, no one was reporting this to VAERS
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - People Power! Pushback Against Vaccine Mandates
- Did Japan's Covid vaccine delay contribute to herd immunity and does it explain the sudden drop in cases?
- mRNA Inventor on COVID Response: "Is This Really About the Vaccine or Is It About Something Else?"
- Lysine therapy interrupts replication of virus
- Nebraska AG: Docs can prescribe controversial COVID drugs ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine without fear of disciplinary action
- Americans are eating more ultra-processed foods
- WHO: Tuberculosis deaths increased in 2020 for first time in more than a decade
- Best of the Web: Aspirin lowers risk of COVID: New findings support preliminary Israeli trial
- The data is in: We are now worse off than before the experimental jabs
- Benefits of sauna and winter-swimming revealed in new study on Scandinavian men
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - Is October 15th Worldwide Mandatory Vaccination Day?
- Merck asks FDA for emergency approval of new COVID drug despite safety concerns
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Gurdjieff, Fourth Way, and Solioonensius in the New Normal - with Alan Francis
- Our brains have a 'fingerprint' too
- Adults who stutter stop if they think no one is listening - study
- Highly processed foods harm memory in the aging brain
- Hair analysis shows meditation training reduces long-term stress
- Logic of the body's 'second brain'
- How therapy, not pills effectively treats back pain
- Longtime skeptic now accepts parapsychology as a science (with caveats)
- Conscientious objections to the COVID vaccine should be honored
- Study: Left-wing authoritarians share key psychological traits with far right
- Gut bacteria influence brain development
- Why words become harder to remember as we get older
- New reward circuitry discovered
- Hearing mother's voice can lessen pain in premature babies, study suggests
- Are incels a violent terrorist subculture, or collection of disenfranchised, misguided souls who need compassion and treatment?
- SOTT Focus: Mass Psychosis: How to Create a Pandemic of Mental Illness
- Gaslighting: The psychology of shaping another's reality
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Postmodern Bible: An Interpretation for Everyone!
- Best of the Web: Why Do Some People Support Tyranny While Others Defy It?
- Our brains perceive our environment differently when we're lying down
- ALIEN MYSTERY UFOs crippled ten of my nuclear missiles at ANOTHER top-secret US air base, claims ex-NASA moon landing engineer
- UFO watchers stumped by jaw-dropping clear footage of mystery black shape in the sky
- 8 firsthand accounts of recent UFO sightings in Horry County, South Carolina
- Sheriff investigates reported ghost-like sighting in California mountain range
- UFO theories abound as video of mysterious object spotted in Louisiana sky goes viral
- Colombian mayor shares video of 'ghost attack' in his office
- Unidentified aerial phenomenon sighting in South Carolina stirs MUFON interest
- SOTT Focus: Noah Donohoe: Missing 411?
- The evidence of encounters with UFOs is mounting, uncontestable and, thank goodness, being taken seriously for the first time
- Best of the Web: 70 years of cover-ups over UFOs are finally coming to an end. I believe we're on the verge of a profound breakthrough
- 'What if we're the ants in this network of civilisations?' asks UFO expert, as he says we should prepare for imminent ET contact
- Best of the Web: Watershed Pentagon UFO report says 143 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' incidents since 2004 'unexplained', does not rule out ET origin
- From the plandemic to the alien threat?
- Strange lights spotted in night sky over India's Gujarat region
- 'Strange' lights captured in sky above Guelph, Ontario
- Former intel official admits 'aliens' interested in nuclear facilities, claims UFOs 'interfered' with US atomic capabilities
- Unclassified UFO findings to reveal US intel community can't explain aerial objects: report
- James Corbell: Newly released radar footage shows UFOs swarming Navy ship
- Two-year-old triplets seen talking to 'ghost' in their bedroom
- Mysterious giant stone road resurfaces from beneath the Pacific Ocean
- Liberal parent tries to figure out how to cheer for son Brandon
- Facebook is planning to change its name
- Strange: Google search for 'problems with Biden administration' returns zero results
- Biden promises to stop being a bad president if everyone gets vaccinated
- IRS agents bust 7yo for getting more than $600 worth of birthday presents
- Make them practice what they preach!
- Southwest Airlines offers free flights to all passengers who are vaccinated and can fly a plane
- Infrastructure bill includes Capitol building expansion to hold Pfizer lobbyists
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Brain Thoughts: Norm MacDonald, Death, Humor, and Bond Villain Klaus Schwab
- Major disaster for humanity - Facebook comes back online
- FBI comes clean: Admits it's 'really hard' to solve crimes they didn't make up themselves
- Vaccinated man just wishes there was something that could protect him from COVID
- Babylon Bee scoop! General Milley releasing revised version of 'The Art Of War'
- Kamala Harris Instructed To Stop Answering All Her Phone Calls With 'Did He Die?'
- Animal rescue: CCTV shows goat and rooster save chicken from hawk attack, deer mauls hawk after it tries to capture a rabbit
- Biden unveils 'your body, my choice' vaccination program
- Democrats refuse to drink water as it's also prescribed to horses
- Joe Rogan Bounces Back From COVID To Win Kentucky Derby
- Amazing new discovery - Absolute cure for COVID
- White House solves budget crisis by renting out ad space on Biden's back
Quote of the Day
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
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