Here are Judith’s questions (?):
JC comment [?]: So am I to infer from this [Naomi’s op-ed (?)] that the only way to support the IPCC consensus is to close your mind? And trust the ‘experts’? (like those we saw in the CRU emails)?
We notice the title: “JC comment”. We also notice the modality of the first question (?): “the only way”, which is kinda strong when one asks a question.
(Source: judithcurry.com)
[Vaughan Pratt responds to yet another ringtone by Girma.]
Only to the extent that 1909 was a terrible year for noted physcist Robert W. Wood, whose career peaked in 1904 when he shot down Prosper-René Blondlot’s N-ray theory. Every paper Wood wrote in 1909 was shot down in the same year by one or another physicist. Yet 70 years later people started quoting Wood’s February 1909 paper in Phil Mag while ignoring the follow-up papers from the same year in the same journal shooting him down.
(Source: judithcurry.com)
[Joshua refines his approach and comes up with an amusing satire.]
Recent reports on experiments with mice have given wide publicity to a theory that cigarette smoking is in some way linked with lung cancer in human beings.
Although conducted by doctors of professional standing, these experiments are not regarded as conclusive in the field of cancer research. However, we do not believe that any serious medical research, even though its results are inconclusive should be disregarded or lightly dismissed.
(Source: judithcurry.com)
[A reply to Nullius in Verba, who refuses to concede that “If they’ll lie about this, what else will they lie about?” was not a rhetorical question.]
First life is kept in check. I could have posted this comment yesterday, but I only had the energy for punctual comments. So I prefered to wait another day to pick a main theme.
My main theme will be Good Science.
Talking about Good Science often leads to moral superiority.
Most appeals to Feynman are moralistic.
(Source: collide-a-scape.com)
[Revisiting NA’s archives to rename the tags, we got the idea of starting an episodic serie entitled PhilosophyForBloggers. We’ll start with Popper. The tag “popper” should be populated soon.]
Popper is quite popular in climate blogland. Way more than it can be in philosophy. Why is that so?
Markus Reugels makes worlds appear in water droplets. He uses high-speed photography to capture the exact moment a droplet frames a planetary backdrop. He places images of the planets in the background and then lets the drop fall, triggering his camera at the correct split-second moment.
