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
- US drone strike kills 10 civilians in western Afghanistan
- Lev Parnas's prolific text messages shows wide reach among Ukraine's oligarchs and political elite but not everyone took his calls
- Florida man kills pro-Trump boss after argument on construction site - drapes American flag next to body
- Ukrainian monitors record 137 episodes of violence, confrontation by ultraright groups
- UK's House of Lords passes Withdrawal Agreement to allow Brexit by end of January
- Consortium News sends libel notices to Canadian Intelligence Agency, major broadcaster Global News
- Best of the Web: IMF warns of new 'Great Depression', Russia ahead of the curve due to increased cash & gold reserves
- Iguanas fall from trees in south Florida as temperatures drop
- 'Mandatory' gender activist propaganda course set to ruin kid's hockey in Ontario - non-woke parents won't be signing on as volunteers
- Storm surge from Storm Gloria reaches at least 3km inland in Spain
- After 13 hours of contentious debate, US Senate passes McConnell impeachment rules
- Beirut: Hour of reckoning approaches as violent anti-gov protests ravage the city
- Rouhani: Iran will never seek nuclear weapons - with or without a deal
- Gantz: Annex Jordan Valley after elections; Netanyahu: Why not now?
- Trump may expand travel bans in upcoming days
- College Republicans accuse Maine university of threatening to sue OFF-CAMPUS venue to stop their event
- Woops! Atomic error! IAF F-35 accidentally revealed its location over secret Israeli nuclear facility
- Guantanamo Bay: CIA waterboarding developer in legal battle defends torture
- China just declared war on single-use plastics
- Project Veritas: Another Bernie staffer caught spouting extremist ideas - 'I'll straight up get armed' if Trump re-elected
- Lev Parnas's prolific text messages shows wide reach among Ukraine's oligarchs and political elite but not everyone took his calls
- UK's House of Lords passes Withdrawal Agreement to allow Brexit by end of January
- Best of the Web: IMF warns of new 'Great Depression', Russia ahead of the curve due to increased cash & gold reserves
- After 13 hours of contentious debate, US Senate passes McConnell impeachment rules
- Beirut: Hour of reckoning approaches as violent anti-gov protests ravage the city
- Rouhani: Iran will never seek nuclear weapons - with or without a deal
- Gantz: Annex Jordan Valley after elections; Netanyahu: Why not now?
- Trump may expand travel bans in upcoming days
- Woops! Atomic error! IAF F-35 accidentally revealed its location over secret Israeli nuclear facility
- Guantanamo Bay: CIA waterboarding developer in legal battle defends torture
- Best of the Web: Pentagon INCREASES number of injuries from Iranian airstrikes on US base in Iraq, but won't say by how many, and warns 'there may be more'
- Best of the Web: Hybrid war: Masked gunmen assassinate regional Basij commander - described as 'Soleimani ally' - in southwest Iran
- Laying the groundwork for the next US civil war
- US to impose visas restrictions for pregnant women
- Hunter Biden ordered to explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt of court
- Tulsi Gabbard announces defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
- Russian PM Mishustin announces first cabinet: Lavrov and Shoigu remain, but many fresh faces are among appointees
- Trump again offers U.S. 'help' in mediating India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir
- Co-opting nationalism: The case of Italy
- Defense, Foreign and Finance ministers retain their positions in new Russian government
- US drone strike kills 10 civilians in western Afghanistan
- Florida man kills pro-Trump boss after argument on construction site - drapes American flag next to body
- Ukrainian monitors record 137 episodes of violence, confrontation by ultraright groups
- Consortium News sends libel notices to Canadian Intelligence Agency, major broadcaster Global News
- 'Mandatory' gender activist propaganda course set to ruin kid's hockey in Ontario - non-woke parents won't be signing on as volunteers
- College Republicans accuse Maine university of threatening to sue OFF-CAMPUS venue to stop their event
- China just declared war on single-use plastics
- Project Veritas: Another Bernie staffer caught spouting extremist ideas - 'I'll straight up get armed' if Trump re-elected
- Best of the Web: Masks and airport checks for coronavirus outbreak are there to keep population calm - no government can stop its spread now
- Lying through her teeth, AGAIN: Hillary defends past association with Weinstein, claiming 'how could we have known?'
- Heated demonstrations continue in Beirut, despite formation of new Hezbollah-approved government
- First US case of potentially deadly Chinese coronavirus confirmed in Washington state
- Driver rams car carrying 6 teenagers, killing 3, in California
- Mother admits to killing her 3 children in Phoenix, US
- Russian military engineers celebrate 319th anniversary of foundation with impressive drill
- France apology after history textbook links CIA to 9/11
- The infantilization of Western culture
- 'Russian spies' in Davos: A scandal or clickbait-chasing nothingburger?
- Queens of Gamergate Zoe Quinn & Anita Sarkeesian monetized feminist victimhood, then cheated their followers
- 2 more inmates killed in troubled Mississippi prison
- Ancient genomes point to unique population of hunter-gatherers
- Yarrabubba is Earth's oldest known impact crater
- 6,600 year old aboriginal aquaculture system revealed by Australia's wildfires
- Ancient wonders: Five little-known archaeological sites in the UK
- Not your REAL dad: If you come from poverty & live in a city good odds your family tree is full of cuckolds, says pioneering study
- SOTT Focus: A History Lesson For Westerners Parrotting The Lie That Stalin 'Colluded With Hitler to Start WW2'
- Zodiacal system in Iron-Age Britain
- Rare Assyrian stone relief discovered in Iraq
- Retired Mossad agent's claims of Israel's 'greatest spy' at top of Egyptian establishment
- Best of the Web: What Poland Has to Hide About The Origins of World War II
- Best of the Web: 75th anniversary: Newly-released wartime docs debunk modern Polish myths about Soviet liberation of Warsaw
- Britain secretly funded Reuters in 1960s & 1970s declassified docs reveal
- Beach-combing Neanderthals dove for shells
- Mystery of early Neolithic house orientations solved
- Atoms for Peace vs. Atoms for War may be the only fix for Iran-US relations
- Columbus' claims of invading Caribs from South America not a myth, but were they cannibals?
- Java Man not so old after all says new research
- How a hilltop became the incubator for Israeli settler violence
- Now twenty years later, how did Putin do it?
- Padlock among finds at Lair of Glenshee Pictish homestead
- Physics shows that imperfections make perfect systems
- Incoming! NASA warns of TWO huge cosmic flybys in a single day following a busy period of NEO approaches to earth
- Can Nature create new genes from scratch?
- New facility to produce oxygen from Moon dust at unprecedented scale
- Gremlin: Pentagon contractor shows off maiden flight of a new 'swarm' drone
- Ingest and forget type medical devices coming soon
- UK research team first ever to video a chemical bond breaking and forming
- Cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses prove they utilize depth perception just like us
- Meteorite impact, not volcanoes led to dino extinction says study
- Forgotten trove of fossil feathers belonged to tiny polar dinosaurs
- Russian cosmonaut Ryazansky says joint mission to Mars isn't science fiction and could help ease political tensions
- New mysterious radio flash discovered
- Asteroid, not volcanoes, led to death of the dinosaurs - Yale study
- An ant colony has memories that its individual members don't have
- New research shows women's blood vessels age faster than men's
- Flashback: US military specialist on Suter ELINT systems: 'We can fool enemy radar and missiles by manipulating space and time'
- Scientists detect unusual burst of gravitational waves in space: Is Betelgeuse going supernova?
- New comet discovered by Japanese astronomer
- 'Giant, shape-shifting stars' spotted near Milky Way's black hole
- SOTT Focus: How the Incoherent Theory of Evolution Distorts Our Thinking
- Iguanas fall from trees in south Florida as temperatures drop
- Storm surge from Storm Gloria reaches at least 3km inland in Spain
- Wrong place, wrong time: Cape May warbler that normally winters in the West Indies turns up in Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Snowfall blankets southern Jordan
- January brings record snowfall to Shuswap ski area, British Columbia - 56 inches in 9 days
- Mountain lion attacks small child at California park
- Floods and landslides leave 6 dead in Madagascar, more severe weather forecast
- Evacuations after floods in northern Argentina - 4 inches of rain in 3 hours
- Storm Gloria batters south of France - 'Most intense' winter storm to hit the region since 1982
- Shallow 6.4 earthquake kills one, injures others in China's Xinjiang region
- Countless cars and windows damaged as hailstorm tears through Canberra, Australia
- At least 20 dead birds show up in Matlacha Isles, Florida
- Storm Gloria hits eastern Spain, dumping huge amounts of snow and battering coast with record-high waves
- January is in full swing in the eastern half of the United States, new storm set to slam West Coast
- Newfoundland 24-hr time lapse video of blizzard
- Giant hail, 'apocalyptic' dust-storms batter bushfire-weary Australia
- Seven hikers missing in avalanche after heavy snowfall in Nepal
- Avalanche at Lake Tahoe ski resort kills one
- Snowmobiler dies after buried 6 feet by avalanche in Farmington Canyon, Utah
- Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits the South Sandwich Islands
- Mysterious fireball flies across sky before disappearing over Southampton, UK
- Meteor fireball filmed over East Anglia, UK
- Bright meteor fireball blazes over Cyprus
- Did a meteorite start a fire and leave a small crater in Florida?
- Meteor fireball filmed over Sarasota, Florida
- Hurricanes, earthquakes and now a daytime meteor: Fireball blazes over Puerto Rico in broad daylight
- Meteor fireball illuminates night sky in Pozan, Poland
- 'Green flash' seen in Fort Collins, Colorado night sky likely a meteor
- Meteor fireball spotted over Ottawa - Gatineau, Canada
- Rooftop cameras capture another meteor fireball over Madison, Wisconsin
- Meteor fireball blazed over Anchorage, Alaska on 21 Dec 2019
- Meteor believed to have caused loud boom, flash of light in Saratoga County, New York
- Doorbell camera captures meteor fireball streaking over Saskatoon, Canada
- Spectacular meteor breaks up over Pacific island of Guam
- Meteor fireball flying through sky caught on doorbell camera in Hamden, Connecticut
- Dashcam captures meteor fireball over Greenville County, South Carolina
- Loud boom shakes houses, damages window in San Juan Islands, Washington
- NASA announces two asteroids will pass by Earth on Christmas and the day after
- 2017 meteor over Australia was a rare 'grazing fireball'
- Asteroid to fly past Earth on Friday the 13th
- Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
- Sunscreen chemicals absorbed into body, study finds
- Separation of plate and state: Keeping diet dogma out of the classroom
- Eating red meat 'vital' for health, expert says
- Human body temperature has declined steadily over the past 160 years
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health #41 - GMO Stevia - Ruining the Sweetener We Don't Really Need
- Low doses of radiation used in medical imaging lead to mutations in cell cultures
- Bees absolutely love cannabis and it could help restore their populations
- Many aging doctors undergo memory tests to keep patients safe
- Common foods alter gut bacteria by influencing viruses
- British two-star Michelin chef Sat Bains refuses to cater to vegans
- America's most widely consumed oil, soybean oil, causes genetic changes in the brain
- Sepsis kills nearly 5 times as many Americans as breast cancer each year and is responsible for a fifth of worldwide deaths, study finds
- Toxic Hangover: The EPA is aggressively approving very dangerous pesticides
- How to destroy your health and your relationship with your parents at the same time
- Save the planet - by destroying farming?
- Chemicals in tap water cause thousands of cancer deaths across Europe - but the EU probably won't do anything about it
- In Alzheimer research, glucose metabolism moves to center stage
- New study definitively shows Glyphosate and Roundup disrupt the gut microbiome by inhibiting the shikimate pathway
- The critical role of nutrition in mental health
- How to be a mentally sovereign human
- Who wants to play the status game?
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Living the Good Life - The Stoic Way
- Writing science fiction not reports provided greater understanding of concepts - study
- Learning is consolation for sorrow: What to do when the world gets you down
- The Power of Bad: How to overcome your brain's 'negativity bias'
- Mysteries of the human heart: The communication between heart and brain
- Question everything: The one habit that changed my life
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: That's the Spirit! The Stoic Philosophy of Pneuma
- The story of the camel, the lion, and the child: Nietzsche's three steps to a meaningful life
- 12 things I see happy people do (that unhappy people do not)
- Advice from Marcus Aurelius: A stoic way to start the day
- Build your own intellectual oasis
- Cradled by therapy
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Breathe Deep to Reap The Benefits of a Healthy Mind: The Tao of Natural Breathing
- Giving your children experiences instead of toys boosts their intelligence and happiness
- Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem
- Social Nourishment + Restorative Solitude = Human Thriving
- Summarizing the evidence for sex differences in cognition
- Richard Dawkins discovers his ideal idiom and audience
- Ominous black ring-shaped 'evil-cloud' looming over Pakistan bewilders residents
- Top-Secret UFO files could 'gravely damage' US national security if released, Navy says
- Missing 411? Woman mysteriously leaves hotel room in middle of night, body found in lake days later
- Mysterious drone swarms appear nightly in US Midwest - no federal agency has an explanation
- Mysterious lights hovering over Mesa, Arizona puzzle residents
- Missing 411? Mystery deepens in death of Michigan mom Adrienne Quintal
- Russian media show video of alleged female bigfoot running by side of road
- Exorcists condemn Canadian children's book on summoning demons as seductive and dangerous
- The Brown Mountain Lights - An unexplained 'paranormal' phenomenon that's gone on for centuries
- Winged being observed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
- 'Giant UFO' or drones over California town?
- Expedition Bigfoot' scours Oregon woods for signs of the mythical and elusive beast
- UFO hunter claims spike in sightings of 'snake-like objects' in US skies - speculation runs rampant
- Area 51 and CIA vets reveal what Cold War-era radar-tricking program has to do with recent UFO sightings
- Ontario, Canada: Internet puzzled by mysterious howls coming from the woods
- The secret séance rituals of America's largest Spiritualist community
- UFOs or satellites? A string of lights freak Hawaiians out
- 'Didn't match any known aircraft': Navy crew speaks out on 2004 UFO encounter, saw flying 'elongated egg' with 'phosphorus glow'
- 'Seinfeld' actor Charles Levin's death details leave Oregon police baffled
- Missing 411? Hiker found dead in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
- The elephant in the room!
- Obese ISIS leader dubbed 'Jabba the Hutt' captured and hauled off in a TRUCK by Iraqi police
- Best actor in 'Role as a crippled old Pervert' category goes to Harvey Weinstein
- Airports rake in revenue after allowing travelers to turn off CNN for a fee
- CNN attacks Babylon Bee: 'The Internet is only big enough for one fake news site'
- As part of settlement with Nick Sandmann, CNN hosts must wear MAGA hats during all broadcasts
- Rescue kitty has been dubbed "Baby Yoda" cat
- 'Earth entered transient Black Hole during 9/11' says new evidence provided by NASA
- The impeachment circus explained
- Poll: Most people prefer annihilation by killer tsunami than being lectured by climate change activists
- Superman criticized as unrealistic for portraying a journalist as heroic
- They call me Rocket: Drunken raccoon revels at Christmas market in Germany
- Will Greta accept the offer?
- Visually a-peeling: Reaction split online as duct-taped bananas sell for $120 THOUSAND at Miami art gallery
- Tiger, Tiger? looking slight: Indian farmer paints dog like tiger to scare away monkeys
- How to discuss "climate change" with a 'woke' teenager
- Smart cop: Indian police officer catches murder suspect by sending old photo, promising to marry him
- Stray dog found keeping abandoned newborn kittens warm on side of freezing road
- Shape-shifting reptilian overlords distance themselves from Prince Andrew
- Impeachment inquiry cancelled after five episodes due to dismal ratings
Recent Comments
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Now the 64 dollar question is: What has this got to do with CHILDREN? If it is not to confuse, obfuscate or mislead they why the heck is this...
We ((they)) accomodate for the feelings of the trans gender individual over those of (to use their terminology) cis genders (male and female)....
