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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Science</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>MARGARET COURT AND HOMOSEXUALITY: for sure she&#8217;s a tennis legend, but is she right about the other?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/margaret-court-and-homosexuality-for-sure-shes-a-tennis-legend-but-is-she-right-about-the-other</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Court is the women&#8217;s tennis equivalent of Don Bradman.
Perhaps the greatest female athlete Australia has produced.
Winner of all four Grand Slam tournament singles titles in the same calendar year (1970).
She won a record 62 Major titles overall.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame states, &#8220;For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARIJUANA: a dangerous drug: can legalisation be justified?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/marijuana-a-dangerous-drug-can-legalisation-be-justified</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada’s Liberal Party has voted to legalise marijuana if and when they get into power.
Their policy is that legalisation will “ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, etc.”
An unrealistic policy, rivalling the naivety of Australia’s Greens Party.
* * *
We have had, for years, scientific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLIMATE CHANGE AS TAUGHT IN AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS: Are Professor Plimer and John Howard on the right track?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/climate-change-as-taught-in-australian-schools-are-professor-plimer-and-john-howard-on-the-right-track</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/climate-change-as-taught-in-australian-schools-are-professor-plimer-and-john-howard-on-the-right-track#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, has written a foreword to a book which promises to be political dynamite.
“How to get expelled from school”, by Professor Ian Plimer.
Its message is that “man-made-climate-change”, as taught in our schools, is not based on good science.
* * *
Prof Plimer also promotes conspiracy theories about government backing climate-change views [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRIAN SCHMIDT, AUSTRALIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: how will his work affect our future?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/brian-schmidt-australian-nobel-laureate-in-physics-how-will-his-work-affect-the-future-of-the-universe</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian citizen, Brian Schmidt, is one of the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics.
His work is said to show that the universe is expanding faster and faster – not slower and slower, as we were being told to believe until recently.
Why so fast? Because of “dark energy” mate.
Dark energy is something that possibly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALCOHOL AND YOUR HEALTH: do the benefits justify the risks?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/alcohol-and-your-health-do-the-benefits-justify-the-risks</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/alcohol-and-your-health-do-the-benefits-justify-the-risks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media were yesterday quoting recent research suggesting that women in their 50s who drink alcohol are more likely to have a healthy old age than non-drinkers.
Popular news, no doubt.
But does it tell us anything of practical relevance?
The small print reveals that the research is talking about women who drink one standard drink or less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLIMATE CHANGE? Will a carbon tax affect it? Don’t believe everything you hear.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/climate-change-will-taxing-carbon-affect-it-don%e2%80%99t-believe-everything-you-hear</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/climate-change-will-taxing-carbon-affect-it-don%e2%80%99t-believe-everything-you-hear#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gillard government is using our money to inflict on TV-watchers and commercial radio-listeners endless advertisements promoting a Carbon Tax to stop climate change.
You cannot stop climate change.
The climate has always changed – and climate is very complicated.
We are told that “the science is in” – meaning it is now proved that global warming is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LORD MONCKTON, CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTIC: attempts by influential academics to silence him.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/lord-monckton-climate-change-skeptic-attempts-by-influential-academics-to-silence-him</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/lord-monckton-climate-change-skeptic-attempts-by-influential-academics-to-silence-him#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday night: climate-change skeptic, Lord Christopher Monckton, addresses a meeting at Notre Dame University, Western Australia.
Prior to the event, a group of over 50 Australian academics signed a letter asking the University to cancel the speech.
They said that Monckton “stands for the kind of ignorance that universities have a duty to counter”.
Lord Monckton commented that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW LAWS RE ALCOHOL FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA? Does all Australia need higher drinking ages, to protect young brains?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/new-laws-re-alcohol-recommended-for-western-australia-should-all-australia-legislate-higher-drinking-ages-to-protect-young-brains</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Western Australian Parliamentary committee yesterday recommended raising the legal alcohol drinking age to 21.
Plus fixing a minimum price for alcohol.
Plus phasing out alcohol company sponsorship of sport.
Sounds good.
WA set a good example recently in being the first state to ban Kronic and similar synthetic-cannabis products. The other states are starting to do the same.
Let’s hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSIRO NEW CLIMATE CHANGE WEBSITE: Presenting unbiased data (in a slightly biased fashion)</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/csiro-new-climate-change-website-presenting-unbiased-data-in-a-slightly-biased-fashion</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/csiro-new-climate-change-website-presenting-unbiased-data-in-a-slightly-biased-fashion#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) launched a new website yesterday.
Professor Paul Fraser says the site will publish data from the Cape Grim (Tasmania) Baseline Air Pollution Station displaying monthly atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
“No strings attached, no outside interpretation,” he says.
* * *
* OK. Let’s visit the site.
Heading, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KRONIC AND OTHER SYNTHETIC CANNIBIS PRODUCTS NOW ILLEGAL: Is this ban justified?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/kronic-and-other-synthetic-cannibis-products-now-illegal-is-such-a-ban-justified</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/kronic-and-other-synthetic-cannibis-products-now-illegal-is-such-a-ban-justified#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synthetic cannabis is increasingly used by the party-going/drug-using category of our species, worldwide – including Australia.
In Australia, one such product, called “Kronic”, has been turning up in a number of shops.
But hopefully not for much longer (see below . . . .)
These products have been promoted as “herbal incense” &#8212; supposedly a combination of certain [...]]]></description>
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