Opinion

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• Rational Science
  • Models, Modeling & Environmental Systems: Support for Decision Making
  • Modeling environmental systems: the General Systems approach
  • Should We Wipe Out The Malaria Mosquito Species?
  • OLD_Invest in Smart Highways, Not Self-Driving Cars
  • Trimming Bureaucracy
  • Trimming Bureaucracy
  • Trimming Bureaucracy
  • Trimming Bureaucracy
• Rational Science—Environment
  • Environmental Systems Science
    • Environmental Systems Science_original
  • Regional Planning and Environmental Systems Science
  • The Environmental Audit
  • The Environment and "Environmental" Science
  • Water and Energy—basis for human society
  • OLD_Water and Energy—basis for human society
  • Environmental Imact Assessment— costs, benefits, risks
  • Modeling Environmental Systems: The "General Systems" approach_original
  • Food, Agriculture, Forestry, Natural Resources, Science & Technology
    • Charles Valentine Riley
• Rational Science—Climate
  • Modeling climate and other natural systems correctly
  • Mitigate Climate Change—Stop trying to ignore it.
  • The Paris Climate Agreement was a cruel hoax on the 99%
  • A Global Experiment without a control
  • Climate change: The big picture
    • Svante Arrhenius
• COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
  • Vaccines & Vaccination: A primer
  • Personal liberty and individual freedom during a pandemic
    • The coronavirus and civil rights
  • What happened at Wuhan?
  • Treating SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections & COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus images
  • The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and COVID-19: the Literature, the data, and public policy
  • SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, antibodies, vaccines
  • Covid-19: Vaccines & Vaccination
  • Neurologic impact of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and COVID-19
  • Vaccinology, Vaccines, Vaccination & Covid-19
  • The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus: a primer
  • Treating the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus & the COVID-19 disease
• Education
  • An Open Letter to Public School Teachers
  • Higher mathematics for public school teachers
  • "Common Core" is doomed by a flawed premise
  • Black Sheep and a Black Sheep College
  • Algebra may not be necessary; but mathematics is!
    • "Is Algebra Necessary?" by Andrew Hacker
  • "Special" Education
  • How Much Environmental Science Is Relevant?]
  • Goals for Public Education in America
  • Excess Administrators not Classroom Teachers!
  • Evaluating Teachers and Teacher Evaluation
  • The Rolling Bones Tour
  • An obituary for the IEE at GSA
  • Pre-school Education and early learning
  • Support Tenure for Public School Teachers
  • Attack VAM before it is too late
  • The Internet and public education: Lessons from the Pandemic
  • Restructuring public education… for learning!
  • Higher mathematics for public school teachers
• Justice, the "Law" and the American Legal System
  • The Price of Justice: How Judges Use Fee Requests to Punish Civil Rights Lawyers and Undermine the Constitution
  • Locking the Door to the Courthouse
  • Nominating judges: a new paradigm is necessary
  • A new paradigm for legal education in America
  • Law Schools Lie… Cheat… and Steal…
  • Judges, Judicial Ethics, and Judging: a memoir
  • Lawyers are Advocates
  • Large time-billing law firms: Scourge of the American Economy
  • Warren E. Burger, "The Special Skills of Advocacy"
  • Advocacy and training advocates
  • Twilight of the "Administrative State"
    • Putting Americans back to work
  • Revisiting Article III standing
  • Dismantling the Administrative State
  • "Environmental" Law & "Environmental" Litigation
• Public information and Education
• Public policy and Politics
  • The Insatiable Thirst of Big Data Centers
  • Trim Bureaucracy (old)
  • Trim Bureaucracy With A Scalpel Not A Chainsaw
  • Undocumented immigrants and immigration policy
  • A rational, just, and moral immigration policy
  • <em>Roe</em> v. <em> Wade</em> is not really about abortion!
  • Abortion, Overpopulation, and Human Rights
  • "Protective" tariffs do not protect American workers
  • Put Americans back to work
  • Rebuild America and restore the Economy
  • Law enforcement officers are not Mental Hygiene Therapy Aides
  • Legislation, special interests/constituencies, and political reality
  • Energy: some economic public policy considerations
  • Private electric and gas utilities are disasters for ratepayers and taxpayers
  • Voting by mail even if Trump destroys the US Postal Service
  • An open letter to elected representatives and candidates for their jobs about the Environment
  • 2016 Questions for Candidates
  • It is time for the American People to recover their Environmental Protection Agency
  • Net Neutrality, Yes. FCC Regulation No!
  • Delphi Methods
  • The Hangman
  • The Endangered Species Act: Unintended Consequences
    • Lee C. Gerhard
  • <em>In Memoriam</em> Richard E. Watson, PhD
  • <em>Project Eagle</em> & a National Trust for the Environment
  • Stop EPA from relying on unpublished data
  • Science, Applied Science, and Scientific Research
  • Losing Bodies and wasting millions
    • Repairing offshore/outsource damage at NYC OCME
• The performing arts
  • The Brookhaven Town Council on the Arts
  • Saving the Patchogue Theatre
    • Symphonic Band of Suffolk Sousa Memorial Concert
  • Sonny: Mensch of the music world
  • Remembering B
  • Billy Mitchell—Legendary tenor man
• War and Warfare
  • <em>Chemical</em> Weapons: Why the Distinction?
  • Reflections on 9/11
  • Must global terrorism mean the end of Western Civilization?
  • Radical Muslims, Muslim extremists, and <em>jihadists</em>
  • Terrorism and the American Infrastructure
  • Chemical Defoliation or Chemical Warfare?
  • Reorganize and restructure DOD
  • A step towards peace in Gaza
• Veterans
  • Quality medical care for combat veterans is a right they have earned
  • “cruel and unusual” treatment of Vietnam veterans
  • Vietnam Veterans sue Veterans Administration
  • The Veterans Administration Is Broken! Let’s Fix It
  • Need a skilled worker? Hire a veteran!
  • Need skilled workers? Hire veterans!