Well, yes, it's correlation, not a clear pathway for causation... but the findings are intriguing. Maybe people who produce fat sons just happen to like smoking when they are pre-pubescent? Chances are there are some epigenetic effects though...

There is evidence that adolescent boys who smoke, have epigenetic effects that change their sperm for the rest of their life, they produce children that are obese. http://www.reuters.com/article...

Big letters here kids: "PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE". That is, designed to fail. Nothing new to industry.

What you're getting at is, provide them access, and the problem will reduce substantially... the idea of geoblocking certain content on the internet is totally against the idea of the internet.. which is global access.

This is not new.... you can get yourself sued for writing a (honest but) negative review.... http://www.forbes.com/sites/in...

I think it has very little to do with the bible, and a lot more to do with who funds their campaigns. This is clearly less about public policy and response to observations of reality and more to do with who has the most to gain out of a lack of action... hint: it's businesses whose prosperity depends on a lack of good public policy.. it's a simple business case, lobbying costs less than having to bear the consequences of good public policy.

Note you are being moderated "interesting", not "insightful". Your statement is a matter of opinion, and demonstrably not backed up by the numbers. Also, you fail to point out that the Coalitions alternative to a Carbon Tax/ETS, of giving away tax payer money to polluters rather than levying them for their emissions is demonstrably a step backwards, and also you are ignoring the fact that the "Carbon Tax" was due to transition to a ETS in 2015.

You are right, but do you think that Australian voters are not swayed by advertising and media.. or that Australia voters are well informed politically or otherwise? As some other commenters have already pointed out, really the previous government got themselves voted out for so much ridiculous infighting, it was painful to watch.. not so much that the current conservative government was voted in.

Never underestimate the power of advertising and lobbyists.

I (BSc) was assisting a PhD student on a project, a project the student was having difficulty with and became very demotivated. Although his supervisor was doing all he could to keep the research going (including bringing me onboard to help), eventually the PhD candidate pulled out. The end result, a paper has been published with my name and his supervisor's name on it, because we ended up finishing the study. So yeah, I can see how his supervisor having yet another paper with his name on it published might seem like the 1%, but reality is, the supervisor had the work ethic to finish off the study and have it published when the student did not.

And this is worse than the current system how?

http://news.sciencemag.org/env...

Because it keeps you sharp! Of course, taking a note out of Captain Janeway's playbook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If I was a woman, I'd have his babies! In the spirit of open source, here, here's my wife!