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
- Long-time Offspring drummer fired for refusing to take Covid vax
- Russia to US: Don't lecture us on Crimea while you wholeheartedly back Israel's illegal occupation of Syrian territory
- Russia's top EU envoy blasts Brussels for 'politicizing' Covid-19 vaccines: Blames 'Big Pharma' over delay in approving Sputnik V
- Florida becomes epicenter of COVID-19 surge
- 'Trans predator' Chris Chan admits to raping 80yo mother, will be placed in women's prison
- Fourth police officer who responded to Capitol riot dies by suicide
- Thousands in Berlin defy ban to protest against coronavirus measures
- Exercise improves health through changes on DNA
- The problem is evil: Of cyberterrorism, great resets, and political prisoners
- We Have Entered the Eye of Davos' Storm
- Dr. Mercola to delete ALL CONTENT from website. Future articles available for 48 hours only
- Monsoon fury in India: Floods hit the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal - Landslides in Himachal and Uttarakhand
- Woman dies after getting caught in flash flood in Arizona canyon
- Strong tornado hits Andreapol town in Tver Oblast, Russia
- Cars, funerals and home improvements: EU to crack down on large cash payments
- Australians who post anti-lockdown content online could face $11,000 fines
- 1 dead as severe flash floods hit Utah for second time in a week
- Best of the Web: Tyranny of the Covid experts: Finger-wagging SAGE scientist Jeremy Farrar penned a book about how HE'S the only person Boris Johnson should ever have listened to
- At least 16 members of wedding party killed by lightning bolt in Bangladesh
- At least eight dead as wildfires rip through southern Turkey
- Russia to US: Don't lecture us on Crimea while you wholeheartedly back Israel's illegal occupation of Syrian territory
- Russia's top EU envoy blasts Brussels for 'politicizing' Covid-19 vaccines: Blames 'Big Pharma' over delay in approving Sputnik V
- The problem is evil: Of cyberterrorism, great resets, and political prisoners
- We Have Entered the Eye of Davos' Storm
- Things get ripe
- Israel's Bennett says Tel Aviv keeps option open to 'act alone' against Iran after tanker attack
- Bibi says Biden could ruin Israeli operations against Iran by leaking info to US media
- US, UK embassies in Afghanistan accuse Taliban of possible war crimes
- Moscow's top spy warns of plans to meddle in Russian elections, says US gov funded Bellingcat working with Western spooks
- Pentagon lockdown lifted after reports of nearby shooting
- Pegasus spyware found on journalists' phones, French intelligence confirms
- Israeli army covered up killing of Palestinian family during May's Gaza onslaught
- DC Democratic mayor caught partying without face mask after enacting new mask mandate - UPDATE: Washingtonian blames reporter, not Bowser
- Covid lunacy: China authorities to test all Wuhan's 11 million residents amid new Covid cases
- Bill Gates Deleted Documentary
- Secret documents expose London's plans to infiltrate the Balkans... while undermining Russia
- South Carolina governor accuses health experts of 'hyperbole'
- The global politics and death-dealing of the Covid party
- "A dangerous precedent": Tory revolt threatens Boris Johnson's vaccine passport plans
- The Roadmap to Totalitarianism
- Long-time Offspring drummer fired for refusing to take Covid vax
- Florida becomes epicenter of COVID-19 surge
- 'Trans predator' Chris Chan admits to raping 80yo mother, will be placed in women's prison
- Fourth police officer who responded to Capitol riot dies by suicide
- Thousands in Berlin defy ban to protest against coronavirus measures
- Cars, funerals and home improvements: EU to crack down on large cash payments
- Australians who post anti-lockdown content online could face $11,000 fines
- Best of the Web: Tyranny of the Covid experts: Finger-wagging SAGE scientist Jeremy Farrar penned a book about how HE'S the only person Boris Johnson should ever have listened to
- Bonkers NHS Trusts are admitting trans women sex offenders onto female-only hospital wards - this really is a bridge too far
- Drug deaths in England & Wales highest since records began, Scotland's per capita rate is even higher
- Portland police can't find recruits for revived gun violence division
- Australia tightens COVID curbs as Brisbane extends lockdown, army patrols Sydney
- Probe finds Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, violated federal and state law
- Florida district drops mask mandate after DeSantis threatens funding cut
- An Olympic Censorship Slip
- Politico and selective attention: Eruption of 'terrorist propaganda' on Gettr thrills Trump haters - except it's on Twitter & Facebook, too
- Sheikh Jarrah families refuse 'protected tenants' deal offered by Israeli Supreme Court: 'Ownership is ours'
- My own country of Canada just kicked me out because my Covid immunity was acquired naturally and not from a vaccine
- Radical wokeness: Dove & BBC demonstrate that brands will destroy own reputation to support the destruction of women's sport
- In a New Book, Longtime Agnostic Dumps Darwin
- Revealed: In 1971, Israel secretly kept innocent Palestinians in remote detention centers
- Neanderthals were painting caves in Europe long before modern humans, study finds
- The ugly Truth of John Maynard Keynes and the Battle of Bretton Woods
- Fruit baskets from 4th century BC found in mysterious ruins of Thonis-Heracleion
- Remains of high-status woman with twin fetuses found in 4000-year-old urn
- History tells us the United States' supposed 'concern for democracy' in Nicaragua is nothing of the sort
- 'Follow the Science': Doctors joined the Nazis in droves
- Slavery has occurred all over the world and at almost all times - Not just in America
- Canterbury Cathedral stained glass is among world's oldest
- Advent of agriculture changed oral microbiome in Southern Europe, analysis of ancient plaque reveals
- 6th century coin hoard found in destruction layer in ancient Phanagoria
- 'Terror on the Tube: Behind the veil of 7/7'
- Clash of the Two Americas vol. 1 (The Unfinished Symphony)
- Last meal of man mummified in a bog reconstructed after 2400 years
- Ancient Roman road & dock discovered in Venice lagoon, region inhabited earlier than thought, when sea levels were 2 metres lower
- Crannogs: Scotland's mysterious ancient artificial islands
- Cuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi Arabia
- Sarcophagus from Visigoth period discovered in Roman necropolis
- 500-year-old skulls with facial modification unearthed in Gabon
- Oink Vey! Evidence ancient Israelites ate pork revealed by pig skeleton in First Temple-period Jerusalem
- Exercise improves health through changes on DNA
- Solar max might come a year early
- Common insecticide is harmful to bees in 'any amount' - study
- Giraffes have complex social systems says study
- Sudden ocean oxygen spike coincided with Permian extinction, anoxia then followed
- Why is this weird, metallic, flashing star hurtling out of the Milky Way?
- Eternal change for no energy: A time crystal is finally made real
- New Comet C/2021 O3 (PANSTARRS)
- Strange intersecting sand dunes pictured on Mars
- Through the thin-film glass, researchers spot a new liquid phase
- Astronomers discover two TNO-like bodies in the asteroid belt
- A blood test for your body clock?
- Do failing galaxies stave off death through gas re-accretion? Scientists observe phenomenon for the first time
- Cosmonauts scramble to right tilted space station after new Russian module Nauka fires thrusters unexpectedly
- Neandertal and Denisovan blood groups deciphered
- Climate scientist warns 'next 20-30 years will be cold'
- Fractons: The 'weirdest' matter, made of partial particles, defies description
- Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds
- Russia's hypersonic missile tests, rocket missions & new stealth fighter reflect its position as world leader in breakthrough technology
- China: Scientists discover giant viruses in the deepest place on Earth
- Monsoon fury in India: Floods hit the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal - Landslides in Himachal and Uttarakhand
- Woman dies after getting caught in flash flood in Arizona canyon
- Strong tornado hits Andreapol town in Tver Oblast, Russia
- 1 dead as severe flash floods hit Utah for second time in a week
- At least 16 members of wedding party killed by lightning bolt in Bangladesh
- At least eight dead as wildfires rip through southern Turkey
- Air force helicopters rescue dozens from rooftops in West Bengal, India floods as 250,000 are displaced and 14 killed
- Flooding leaves 5 dead, injured in 7 provinces of Iran
- Fresh August snowfall in the Alps
- Huge snow dump hits the southern skifields of New Zealand - up to 24 inches in 24 hours
- Strong winds batter China, ripping up records and roofs - wind speeds reach 98 mph
- Brown bear attacks group of campers, killing and eating one in southern central Russia
- Woman killed in bear attack in northern Alberta
- Hundreds of lightning bolts hit dry Oregon, start 50 new wildfires
- Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes near Nicobar Islands, India - EMSC
- ANOTHER cliff collapse on the UK's Jurassic coast prompts warning as cracks appear at two different beaches
- Lightning strikes 6 people, kills 2 in Joypurhat, Bangladesh
- 3 die in lightning strike in West Bengal, India
- Motorcyclist killed on I-95 due to lightning strike in Liberty County, Georgia
- Hiker struck, killed by lightning near John Muir Trail in Sierra wilderness of Fresno County, California
- Meteor fireball recorded over Northeastern US
- Meteor fireball explodes and lights up the night like daylight in Santiago, Chile
- Meteor fireball streaks across sky over New England
- Perseid meteor fireball recorded over Spain
- Meteor fireball lights up sky over Izmir, Turkey
- Meteor fireball seen over Michigan, Ontario and Wisconsin
- Meteor fireball over the coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Explosion in sky startles early risers in Malaysia (July 23)
- Meteor fireball lights up the sky over Pilbara, Western Australia
- North Texas residents observe bright meteor fireball, boom reported
- Bright meteor fireball lights up night sky over Norway
- Meteor fireball over the south of Spain (July 24)
- 14 cameras record a meteor fireball over Brazil
- Large meteor fireball visible for 27 seconds over Puerto Rico
- Meteor fireball explodes in the sky over Brazil
- Meteor fireball spotted in Minas Gerais and Goiás, Brazil
- Meteor fireball explodes over Taiwan
- Two bright meteor fireballs blaze over Idaho within hours of each other
- Meteor fireball over central Spain on July 2nd
- Bright meteor fireball captured over Switzerland
- Dr. Mercola to delete ALL CONTENT from website. Future articles available for 48 hours only
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - The People Have Spoken: Protests Against Draconian Covid Measures Around the World
- Omega-3 and heart disease
- Best of the Web: Now official: Biden's vaccine mandate for ALL federal workers, or regular testing will be required
- 'Superbug' Candida auris fungus spreads in two US cities
- Disturbing whilstleblower footage: Forced COVID vaccination in nursing homes, 'We're dealing with homicide, maybe even murder'
- Man-made virus? Patents provide evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was manufactured in lab
- New evidence suggests COVID vaccine may SPREAD the virus: NBC news report deleted from USA today article
- Busting the myth that vaccination prevents transmission
- Study cited by CDC to justify new mask guidance rejected by peer review, based on vaccine not used in US
- Majority of Covid patients in hospital may have been admitted for OTHER ailments before testing positive, leaked NHS data suggests
- BioNTech aims to develop mRNA-based malaria vaccine
- The UK's case numbers are falling: Does that prove lockdowns don't work?
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health: ITN: Summertime Flu; High CO2 in Children Wearing Masks; J&J Sunscreen Recall
- Medical journal the Lancet accused of costing lives by sitting on a study showing human transmission of Covid-19 that was suppressed by China
- Anxiety & depression in children are on the rise. What can we do to help them?
- CDC panel shows support for regular COVID booster shots, despite vaccine injury & deaths close to 500 THOUSAND
- US could become 'Digital Dictatorship' with new Biden proposal
- The flimsy evidence behind the CDC's push to vaccinate children
- Pill version of Covid-19 vaccine to start clinical trial in Israel
- Sleep loss sabotages new memory storage in the hippocampus
- Longer breaks during learning lead to more stable activation patterns in the brain
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Finding Your Red Line: Lessons from Milgram and the Holocaust
- Can consciousness be explained by Quantum Physics?
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Arthur Versluis: The New Inquisitions vs the Mystical State
- What does the sleeping brain think about?
- The language of totalitarian dehumanization
- Extroverts likely to suffer higher mental health toll in Covid lockdown
- Psychedelics spur growth of neural connections lost in depression
- Reading fiction improves brain connectivity and function
- At just 16 months old, toddlers will reward someone for acting fairly
- Untreated psychiatric illness is behind many mass shootings, a new study says
- Puppies are born with 'human-like' social skills, wired to communicate with people
- I act; therefore I am. Dear trans kids: Stop feeling and start thinking
- "This is not your father's creationism": Atheist Michael Shermer meets Stephen Meyer
- Dunning-Kruger Effect: New study shows overconfidence in news judgment
- New microscopy method reaches deeper into the living brain
- Jane Goodall Meets the God Hypothesis
- Scientists discover new link between personality and risk of death
- 14 common types of cognitive biases and how they affect you and your relationships
- 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
- Pentagon's UFO PsyOps
- Ex-head of Pentagon UFO hunting outfit claims US government possesses 'exotic material' that needs to be studied
- Reports of strange sightings in skies over Montana
- 'We don't know exactly what they are': Obama says UFO sightings appear real
- Pentagon says leaked video showing mysterious spherical object is GENUINE & under investigation by 'UFO task force'
- Did a Costa Rican mapping project produce the best UFO photo ever taken?
- War on COVID to wrap up as quickly as the War on Terror says government
- Man disguises self as illegal immigrant so Democrats won't care that he's unvaccinated
- CDC experts on 'Delta variant': Do all the things that didn't work the first time!
- 27 covid-skeptic memes to get you through the day - part 8
- Florida man shoots himself while showing off gun in bar
- Jen Psaki banned from social media for spreading misinformation
- Report: FBI helped Thanos get six Infinity Stones in attempt to bust him on plot to kill half the universe
- CNN makes public service announcement on warning signs of dementia
- Interview with a coma patient
- Facebook to warn users they're using Facebook
- X gender on my passport instead of male or female is just the start: I want to identify as a dolphin
- Ricky Gervais dares wokesters to cancel The Office: 'I've been paid!'
- Public school student can't read but is already racist at a 12th-grade level
- Equality at last: Disney confirms Winnie The Pooh will now be voiced by an actual bear
- 'We at the NSA are not spying on you,' insists muffled voice coming from Tucker Carlson's toaster
- New evidence emerging that Critical Race Theory escaped from a college humanities department lab
- Bass Pro Shops announces 2-for-1 sale on full range of nuclear missiles - $50 specials!
- Jonathan Pie: Hancock is a ****!
- Huge spike noted in Americans buying F-15s after Biden suggests you'll need them to overthrow government
- Trump announces he is building 1,954-mile long Trump Hotel along southern border
Quote of the Day
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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