Category Archives: Guest Post

An FTI Consulting Presentation Pulls Back the Veil on Fossil Fuel PR and Shale Greenwashing

FTI Consulting 2015 slides tout “discrediting” science, “debunking” documentaries, and hype its fracking industry project Energy In Depth

Links 2/16/2022

This Doctor Thought She Could Navigate US Health Care. Then Her Autistic Son Needed Help.

Another example of how the US health care system fails patients that could be treated.

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/15/2022

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Peasants Marginalized by Big Farms

Why big farms are often not better.

Spain and UK Give a Masterclass on Why Both Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Should Fear Vaccine Passports

Even if you have complied with all of the public health requirements, human error or algorithmic bias can leave you stuck in limbo.

Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer

Gail Tverberg throws cold water on green energy optimism.

NYT Recognizes “That Organic Cotton T-Shirt May Not Be as Organic as You Think”

Could a well-structured class action lawsuit either prod fashion companies to build verifiable organic cotton supply chains, or abandon their claims that they’re selling organic cotton?

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2022

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Links 2/14/2022

On-Time Rent Payments Sag Amid Massive Spike in Rents

Rents are up a lot in most places in the US of any consequence. Not all tenants are keeping pace.

Links 2/13/2022

How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”

A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle of Bretton Woods: multilateralism

What Are Taxpayers Spending for Those ‘Free’ Covid Tests? The Government Won’t Say.

The officialdom is not giving straight answers to simple questions about how much it spent procuring those “free” Covid tests.