The Scientific Method is a logical and rational order of steps by which scientists come to conclusions about the world around them. […] Scientists use observations, hypotheses, and deductions to make these conclusions, just like you will use the Scientific Method in your science fair project.
For this stage of the Scientific Method, it's important to use as many sources as you can find. The more information you have on your science fair project topic, the better the design of your experiment is going to be…
The hypothesis is a simple statement that defines what you think the outcome of your experiment will be.
An incorrect prediction doesn't mean that you "failed." It just means that the experiment brought some new facts to light that maybe you hadn't thought about before. The judges at your science fair will not take points off simply because your results don't match up with your hypothesis.
This is the part of the scientific method that tests your hypothesis. An experiment is a tool that you design to find out if your ideas about your topic are right or wrong. It is absolutely necessary to design a science fair experiment that will accurately test your hypothesis. The experiment is the most important part of the scientific method.
Remember, a science fair experiment isn't a failure if it proves your hypothesis wrong or if your prediction isn't accurate. No one will take points off for that. A science fair experiment is only a failure if its design is flawed. A flawed experiment is one that (1) doesn't keep its variables under control, and (2) doesn't sufficiently answer the question that you asked of it.
The strength of the new study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters, is that it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models. (which have been shown to be falsely created with manipulated data - Ed. note)
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
In the eyes of the corruptocracy of the left, which group is evil and which is morally pure: SEIU thugs or US Navy SEALs? It seems to be no contest.
Imagine if you will (as Rod Serling used to say) that innocent US citizen Kenneth Gladney, who gave away “Don’t Tread on Me” flags outside of a Missouri town hall meeting, instead gave out SEIU buttons at a pro-labor rally. Also imagine that instead of being surrounded and beaten by SEIU thugs, he was attacked by US Navy SEALs. Would the treatment by the legacy media be the same? Would the County Prosecutor be as reticent in pursuing prosecution of the SEALs as he currently is with SEIU?
Now imagine Kenneth’s brother Keith protesting the inaction of the prosecutor and the county government, and rewarded by being fired from his county job in apparent retaliation. And, for maximum punishment value, he is fired just before Christmas. I’m sure our vigilant media would express outrage beyond measure at the SEALs and the St. Louis County officials responsible.
Unfortunately, the sad state of our current Orwellian reality is that the SEIU thugs continue to skate prosecution after beating an innocent citizen to a pulp, and dissent is crushed.
Oh, and three US Navy SEAL heroes capture a terrorist who murdered Americans and mutilated their bodies. They give him a fat lip in the process. They must immediately be prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law. The legacy media concurs.
This ongoing hypocrisy and corruption, unchecked by the legacy media, is reshaping our nation. God help us.
Andrew Thomas aka Angel
as published in AmericanThinker.com
Lobaczewski also references the following passage from The Sociopath Next Door, by clinical psychologist Dr. Martha Stout:The actions of [pathocracy] affect an entire society, starting with the leaders and infiltrating every town, business, and institution. The pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country creating a “new class” within that nation. This privileged class feels permanently threatened by the “others”, i.e. by the majority of normal people.
Dr. Stout estimates that this psychosis affects approximately 4% of the population. It seems obvious that many of these will gravitate to politics, where power over others is most attainable. Lobaczewski places the amount of undiagnosed psychopaths that become the pathocracy at 6%:Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken.
And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools.
Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless.
You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience, that they seldom even guess at your condition.
In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world.
You can do anything at all, and still your strange advantage over the majority of people, who are kept in line by their consciences will most likely remain undiscovered.
The question is how do we recognize and ferret out the sociopaths and narcissists currently in power in both political parties? This is an inherently difficult task due to the ability of these psychopaths to disguise their disease. I believe it is possible to identify them through critically observing and identifying the inconsistencies between their apparent irrational behavior and the image they are trying to present.Approximately 6% of the population constitute the active structure of the pathocracy, which carries its own peculiar consciousness of its own goals. Twice as many people constitute a second group: those who have managed to warp their personalities to meet the demands of the new reality. […]
This second group consists of individuals who are, on the average, weaker, more sickly, and less vital. The frequency of known mental diseases in this group is at twice the rate of the national average. We can thus assume that the genesis of their submissive attitude toward the regime, their greater susceptibility to pathological effects, and their skittish opportunism includes various relatively impalpable anomalies. […]
The 6% group constitute the new nobility; the 12% group forms the new bourgeoisie, whose economic situation is the most advantageous. […] Only 18% of the country’s population is thus in favor of the new system of government.
Unfortunately for the true believer Warmist cult, proof that the phenomenon is man-made is that men manipulated the data. Global warming has finally been proven to be a gigantic lie, perpetrated by hundreds of so-called scientists and other slime-balls in pursuit of huge government grants and professional accolades. These grants are now understood to be blatant bribes doled out by a dishonest administration eager to have its evil agenda ratified by “science”. When it is all unraveled, this will be known as the greatest scam in world history.
Angel
I want all of you to know that as Commander in Chief, that there’s no greater honor, but no greater responsibility for me (emphasis his) than to make sure that the extraordinary men and women in uniform are properly cared for…
Tax the rich,
Feed the poor,
‘Til there are no
Rich no more.
“I’d Love to Change the World”
Ten Years After (1971)
Over the Columbus Day weekend, my wife and I travelled to Brooklyn, NY to visit our daughter and her boyfriend. I was strictly admonished by my wife not to talk politics during the visit, since my daughter’s boyfriend is a radical leftist. He, being a well-educated social science buff, and I, being who I am (a well-educated “right-wing nut job”), we had created many spectacular fireworks during past political debate sessions.
Things went well up until Sunday afternoon, when we were both seated on the couch benignly watching a football game on his 60” television screen. During a commercial break, there was a news announcement concerning another New York City tax increase. Before I could catch myself, I blurted out the Ten Years After lyric at the top of this article.
It was as though I had hit his “ON” button. He immediately jumped off the couch and started screaming, “That’s RIGHT! That’s EXACTLY RIGHT!” I replied, “But shouldn’t the lyric be “Til there are no poor no more’? Isn’t that true social justice?” He stated with upmost certainty (from his standpoint, no rational debate was possible) that the wealthy in this country are wholly responsible for the world’s misery and must be utterly destroyed by the most horrible means possible.
“Then you want everyone to live in poverty?”, I queried.
“Absolutely”, he replied.
Sometimes I think I have heard it all, but this left me stunned. Before we could go on, my wife and daughter swooped in and broke up the mêlée.
But the incident left me with the thought that perhaps his viewpoint is not unique. Is a blind hatred of the “rich” driving much of the left’s apparently self-destructive behavior? In a previous AT article, “The End Game of the Left”, I concluded that the goals of the left are “abortion and eugenic elimination of the ‘undesirables’, the euthanasia of the old and infirm, and the genocide of those who disagree.” But what was missing from this evaluation is the ultimate motivation for these travesties. Is it all driven by obsessive rage and hate?
I don’t think it is quite that simple. There appears to be an abundance of negative emotion in the leftist mind, but that is only part of the equation. Almost everyone, including the leftist, believes that they are basically good and decent human beings. This is true among religious and atheists, and even thieves and murderers. I believe that in order to emotionally reconcile inherently “evil” feelings of hatred toward others, the leftist embraces “social justice” as a pious compensation.
The original concept of social justice was envisioned as a virtuous governmental function, protecting the downtrodden and disadvantaged from a heartless society. As a form of coerced charity through taxation, the government decides what is just and provides for the “common welfare”.
In Friedrich August Hayek’s book, “Law, Legislation, and Liberty: The Mirage of Social Justice, he states:
It is one of the axioms of the tradition of freedom that coercion of individuals is permissible only where it is necessary in the service of the general welfare or the public good. Yet…the vagueness of the different terms which have been employed has made it possible to declare almost any interest a general interest and to make large numbers serve purposes in which they are not in the least interested. The common welfare or the public good has to the present time remained a concept most recalcitrant to any precise definition and therefore capable of being given almost any content suggested by interests of the ruling group.
As a result of this vagueness of definition, the foundation of hatred within the leftist mind has perverted the original intent of social justice. Babies must be aborted, grandma must be killed, and the infirm must be euthanized, all for the “common welfare”. How does this reconcile with the concept of using the wealth of society to champion the poor and helpless? “Justice” is no longer part of the equation. It has devolved into social engineering and tinkering without a heart and soul. Through the twisted filter of hatred, social justice has become a force for evil.
So why do the wealthy and powerful on the left (the “poweratti”) embrace this philosophy? Because they believe they will not be touched by it personally, and they can use it to garner additional political and/or social power. Taking the health care issue as an example, those currently in Congress have chosen to follow the refrain, “Government-run health care for thee, but not for me”. Other wealthy and politically-connected poweratti obviously believe they will be able to obtain quality health care from other sources, either overseas or in a domestic black market of private physicians and hospitals exclusively for the wealthy.
By enflaming hatred of the wealthy (and by extension, Capitalism), the poweratti can brandish social justice as a weapon to seize complete control of government and essentially enslave the populace. How ironic that this hatred should result in extending their power and privilege!
In the leftist utopia of social justice, wealth is no longer created. The Capitalist goose that laid the golden eggs is spread like pâté. Income and property are confiscated, housing and employment are assigned, as in Cuba and Venezuela. Scientific advancement and medical breakthroughs are ground to a halt, as in the old Soviet Union where technology was frozen in the 1950s. Entrepreneurship, personal advancement, and wealth creation are violently quashed, as in the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Mao Tse Tung. Hunger, disease, and death become familiar houseguests, as in all repressive regimes.
The end game of the leftist poweratti is to rule the nation and eventually the world by bringing us down to the lowest social common denominator through the manipulation of those who obsessively despise wealth.
Andrew Thomas aka Angel
As published in AmericanThinker.com
Our regulation-hungry leaders in Washington are acquiring a new taste in governmental control. A sumptuous feast of tempting regulatory delicacies awaits under the guise of improving the safety of our food supply. Is there a clandestine plan to control and collectivize food production for the purpose of controlling the American people? Or is it a well-meaning but horrendously misguided attempt by the administration to “protect” the public through draconian regulations heaped onto farmers and small food processing businesses? After all, leftist policy-makers are the masters of unintended consequences. If it is not an intentional Cloward-Piven strategy to collapse the food production industry in order to cause shortages and rationing, it has all of the earmarks.
As is observed in other C-P schemes, the attacks on our food supply are complex and multi-faceted, and devastating in their cumulative impact. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Obama’s “food czar” Michael Taylor are the prime weapons in this assault.
Radical environmentalist organizations such as the Sierra Club have long fought battles alongside the EPA against individual farmers for producing “animal emissions” and farm dust. Now the EPA is using the Endangered Species Act of 1973 as a weapon against agriculture. The latest and most egregious example of this is the EPA enforcement of the act to turn off the water supply to the farmers of the San Joaquin valley. Arguably the most essential of America’s “bread baskets”, it was producing as much as 12% of the nation’s agriculture, at least until the EPA decided that the protection of the three-inch Delta Smelt was more important and deserved the water more than the farmers. Now 40,000 residents are out of work and ironically short of food. They are waiting in lines up to five hours long for food packages marked “Product of China”. Farms are going bankrupt and being abandoned in droves. Obama has so far denied requests to reverse the EPA’s decision.
There are 1,320 officially-designated endangered species in the US. Each one can be used to regulate and restrict agriculture as the EPA so deigns. As the wise comedian George Carlin once said, “Species disappear at a rate of 25 a day, regardless of our behavior. Let them go gracefully.”
That brings us to the two-edged sword of the FDA. I have worked with FDA (known to insiders as “the Agency”) for over thirty years, so I know from personal experience that it can be a force for good in protecting public health. It has restrained many a pharmaceutical and medical device business from illegal or unethical practices. On the other hand, it has destroyed good companies and prevented beneficial products from reaching the market, many times based on the political agenda of the Agency at the time. In this case, the sword is being directed by Obama political appointees and the legislation currently before Congress. It is pointed directly at the heart of the food industry.
There are two major pieces of food legislation in progress, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 (HR 2749), and the Food Modernization Act of 2009 (HR 875). These bills unleash a cornucopia of new regulations and harsh penalties on small farmers and food processors. Fines of up to $7.5 million can be assessed and sentences of up to ten years in prison can be imposed for violations of the new regulations. All farms and food businesses must pay a mandatory annual FDA registration fee of $500. There are fears that the new laws will make growing organic foods illegal by outlawing the use of manure and requiring chemical pesticide application to all crops. Other frightening interpretations of the provisions in these bills include potentially mandating genetically-modified (GM) crops and “terminator” seeds that will require farmers to purchase new GM seeds each season.
One thing is certain. The Obama administration is fundamentally changing food regulation to more closely resemble the current regulations on pharmaceuticals and medical devices. New FDA draft guidance documents have been issued on food regulation, with more to come. These automatically become law in two years with no congressional approval required.
One example of the unsustainable burden being placed on the food industry is the FDA’s new draft guidance document “Commodity Specific Food Safety Guidelines for the Fresh Tomato Food Chain”. Don’t let the term “guidelines” fool you. This is an Agency code word for “enforceable regulations”. Under this guidance document, all growers must develop written procedures for risk mitigation strategies, employee hygiene practices, employee training and other employee policies, internal quality audits, and process validations. They must keep written records of environmental assessments, water usage, pest control, crop production practices, corrective action processes, and the conducting of employee training and internal audits. All of these documents and records are subject to unannounced FDA on-site inspection. Violations will result in fines and/or imprisonment.
These types of regulations are very difficult for established pharmaceutical and medical device businesses to follow. Many of them must hire legions of professional consultants (mostly retired FDA inspectors) to interpret Agency laws. Imagine the difficulty that will now be faced by a local farmer or a corner bakery. Many will be driven out of business.
Is it so farfetched to believe that our benevolent Democrat-controlled legislative and executive branches would want to control the American populace through acquiring power over one of our basic needs for survival? To paraphrase an old adage, “once you’ve got them by their stomachs, their hearts and minds will follow”.
The use of food to control and enslave populations has been evidenced throughout history. The most well-known example of this was the Stalinist revolution. Of course, he blatantly starved to death millions of Ukrainians who attempted to rebel against his authority. But he also used food to control the people of Soviet Russia. In the book Food Nations, an essay entitled “Food and the Politics of Scarcity in Urban Soviet Russia, 1917-1941” by Mauricio Borrero, states:
I believe the intent of our President in implementing these overwhelming regulations can be established in his famous pre-election quote: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want …That’s not going to happen (under the Obama administration).”
Forget government-run healthcare, forget “cap and trade”. Those issues don’t matter to people who don’t have enough to eat. Government regulation and control of our food supply is the ultimate assault on our freedom.
Andrew Thomas aka Angel
edited version published in AmericanThinker.com
