The Unscientists 2010 awards



Shamelessly stealing the Festival Of Idiots central theme and with no proper credit given to its originator, The Rugbyologist, the Chatter Box proudly announces

The Unscientists 2010 Awards.


The rules, hereinafter known as 'the rules':

Now be it known that:

Whereas this award, hereinafter known as 'the award' has been announced and,

Whereas awards should be given only to the most deserving persons or groups:

Therefore be it enacted by my awesome powers as a scientific blogger that:

By these rules shall ye nominate candidates, and by none other:

Whereas any journalist, blogger, politician, or other person hereinafter known as a 'presumed sapient life-form' shall have demonstrated to the satisfaction of Patrick Lockerby, hereinafter known as 'the judging panel', that:

    by the use exclusively or mainly, of:

        a) repetition of an already debunked argument, and or,
        b) logical fallacies, and or,
        c) self-aggrandising puerile prosey posturing

    the candidate has demonstrated a belief, hereinafter known as 'an unscientific conclusion',
    that he or (rarely) she is right and scientists are wrong;

Wheretoforatsince: any person may, by posting hereunder such nomination as the judging panel shall decide to be within the remit of the judging panel, nominate any presumed sapient life-form for inclusion in the judging panel's list of candidates for The Unscientists 2010 Awards.

Promulgated by the judging panel this 6th day of April in the year of the holocene 2010.

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1st Grand Nomination Ceremony:

Today, I nominate Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal for his persistent denial of anything and everything to do with climate science.  The grounds for nomination:

Most recently published drivel:
global warming is dead, nailed into its coffin

Pleas in unmitigation:
desmogblog-bret-stephens...