by Dr. Roger I. Roots A previous post on the fact that today’s senior citizens are generally sicker (but longer-living, due to medical advancements) than their predecessors got me thinking. Can this increased level of sickness and chronic illness among today’s populations be partially attributed to Medicare? Or to Social Security? This is not as …
Category: Research Projects
Lysander Spooner University's Ongoing Research Projects
Apr 13
When MSN Claims Research Was “Silenced,” This Merely Means That Government Funding Was Cut
Today’s headline on MSN News reads: “Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them.” Wow. The National Rifle Association “silenced” research. But the article’s details show no support for such a headline. The story is about governmnt funded “disease research” during the 1990s that pronounced such things as that …
Feb 13
UPDATE: WE HAVE CHANGED OUR DATE FOR PHOTOGRAPHING GLACIER NATIONAL PARK: New Date is September 13
Previously, we announced a volunteer research project in which we hope to record images of North American glaciers on the precise same dates every year. This research idea is something of a response to official government imagery showing glaciers such as the Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park appearing to melt rapidly in recent years. …
Jan 30
Lysander Spooner University’s July 24th Climate-Change Photo Research Project
No one denies “the greenhouse effect.” We can observe it in greenhouses. But we are scientists, and we are scientifically skeptical of claims by government-friendly alarmists who claim that humanity must adopt various repeatedly-failed socialist policies in order to save the planet …
