Huffington Post has quickly censored a 9/11 related blog entry by Jesse Ventura. Several reader comments were left before the article disappeared from HP’s web page. In place of the original article is now the following editor’s note:
The Huffington Post’s editorial policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits the promotion and promulgation of conspiracy [...]

A United Nations report on climate change that has been lambasted for its faulty research is under new attack for yet another instance of what critics say is sloppy science — guiding global warming policy based on a study of forest fires.

It appears Michael Mann, who as a scientist is supposed to be disinterested in the outcome of his research, is benefiting greatly from publishing information about global warming which has been proved to be not credible.

A London newspaper reported yesterday that the unsubstantiated Himalayan-glacier melt figures contained in a supposedly authoritative 2007 report on climate warming were used intentionally, despite the report’s lead author knowing there were no data to back them up.

The world’s leading climate change scientists have been caught out making unfounded claims about global warming for the second time in just over a week.

In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama said there was “overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.” In his most recent message to the world, Osama bin Laden said that climate change “is not an intellectual luxury but an actual fact.” It’s nice to see these two leaders can agree on something.

AFP (2010-01-22)
France is in “tough” talks with drug companies to cancel orders for millions of swine flu vaccines and insists on scratching the deals instead of renegotiating them, its health minister said on Friday.
France earlier this month moved to cancel purchases of 50 million swine flu vaccines after ordering far more than needed, but was [...]