RGK Research

This website is a growing collection of articles on key issues shaping today’s world, with new additions appearing from time to time. Some are backed by authoritative sources, cited to support factual analysis and critical perspectives. Others are essays born of human–AI collaboration, fusing insight, empathy, and expansive research into cohesive, thought-provoking commentaries. Browse the collection by scrolling down the page and clicking title links to start reading. After reading an article, return to this page by clicking at the top left of the screen, on the green-head icon, or by clicking the ... "<< BACK TO MAIN PAGE" ... link at the end of each article.

Mindless Extermination to Combat Avian Influenza
Instead of paying higher prices to improve production practices, consumers pay higher prices to promote mass killing.

CDC COVID-19 Face Mask Guidelines Never Should Have Been Trusted
Conflicts of interest and violations of established government standards rendered CDC face mask guidelines untrustworthy.

Were There Justifiable Reasons to Require Face Masks for COVID-19?
A true reason to require face masks and true evidence to support requiring face masks for COVID-19 NEVER existed.

Rampant Fraud and Misconduct Reinforced COVID-19 Fear
Many people have no idea about how much fraudulent medical research gets put into widespread practice, or how this subpar research is enabled by considerable conflicts of interest.

A Conceptual Interlude: Untangling the Greenhouse Narrative

Enhanced Intelligence Shatters the Greenhouse Theory
Reframing emissions one photon at a time.

Earth’s Energy Budget as a Modern Myth

Visual rhetoric, scientific culture, and the authority of diagrams sustain falsehoods in climate science.

From Molecule to Monster

There are consequences to being captured by the fallacy of CO₂ pollution.

Arithmetic Illusion

Energy flux diagrams used in discussions about Earth's climate compromise scientific fundamentals by ignoring the most basic axioms of mathematics and physics.

The Scaffolding of Faulty Reasoning Linked to Surface Confusion Within Radiative Modeling

In the radiative modeling of planet Earth, a convincing teaching method has been built on ontological and metaphorical misassignments that translate into faulty directives for making and mandating public policy.

The Fallacy of Averaging Sunshine on a Flat Disc by Spreading it Over a Spherical Earth

Introductory courses in climate physics still paint light where it never shines on the planet.

The Stefan-Boltzmann Hat Trick

Mainstream climate-science educators and scientists sustain the greenhouse theory through conceptual magic. One definition of "magic" is "mysterious tricks, such as making things disappear and reappear, performed as entertainment". In this case, the mysterious tricks are changing the definition of Sunlight to Earthlight and making the proper S-B reference surface disappear while applying the S-B equation to justify the state of a surface translocated to a depth in the original blackbody where the proper (now disappeared) reference surface first existed. "Performed as entertainment"? Not literally. But performed as entertaining the idea that this is proper science.

Seeing Earth As It Is In Climate Science

Joseph Fourier started with a warming-centric bias that Svante Arrhenius' later amplified by misrepresenting Fourier as the person who compared Earth with a glass house. Even today, outputs from modern computerized climate models continue to be interpreted in a way that perpetuates this bias to stoke anxiety about climate change.