The politicization of everything Is there nowhere free from politics anywhere in these Ununited States anymore? Scientists once tried to at least make an effort to avoid the societal cesspool of politicization, […]
Medical tribalism
A quiet champ
Iditarod loses one of the good ones Nineteen-eighty-three Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Rick Mackey, who died this week at the age of 71, was the quiet man in the Mackey […]
Bad science
It wasn’t the droplets With the Covid-19 pandemic slipping into the world’s rearview mirror, the photographs that helped drive mask hysteria and six-foot distancing are now being refuted by viral experts advising […]
Salmon subterfuge
How America stole Canada’s fish HOUSTON, British Columbia, Canada – Here in the “Steelhead Capital of the World” along the banks of the Bulkley River, the fish still come back from the […]
On Artificial Ignorance
How is it that a system billed as “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) can be so fundamentally stupid? The screenshot above is Goggle version of AI reporting on the 2023 salmon harvest in British […]
The headlight
Evidence now points to victim-blaming effort The Alaska State House of Representatives on Thursday joined the state Senate in endorsing the idea of naming a Fairbanks-area bike path after dead cyclist […]
Grand illusion
The sales pitch for a state bailout A news analysis The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is out with its latest propaganda, and the Alaska legacy media is parroting the pitch as representative […]
Death season
The deadly season has begun again in Alaska with a climber dead in Denali National Park and Preserve and a group of glacier-crossing skiers saved in Kenai Fjords National Park thanks to […]
Unseen salmon
Study shines light on secret lives A news analysis While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been busy outlining a long, involved and financially unrealistic plan for research aimed […]
Bad messaging
Alaska salmon, the poor folks’ seafood! Why, oh why, do the political leaders of the 49th state want to portray Alaska salmon as a commodity the market doesn’t want? First it was […]
