December 2010
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Some Dots
You, Judith, have agreed that, at least, it is only a hypothesis. It’s not certain. So it’s uncertain. So it contains uncertainties. Uncertainty. Some dots. Hoax. What kind of knowledge is only based on certainties, again?
Dec 31st
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Some Dots
You, Judith, have agreed that, at least, it is only a hypothesis. It’s not certain. So it’s uncertain. So it contains uncertainties. Uncertainty. Some dots. Hoax. What kind of knowledge is only based on certainties, again?
Dec 31st
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Study Finds That Fear Won't Don't Do It: Why Most... →
[D]ire messages warning of the severity of global warming and its presumed dangers can backfire […]
Dec 31st
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Study Finds That Fear Won't Don't Do It: Why Most... →
[D]ire messages warning of the severity of global warming and its presumed dangers can backfire […]
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Lomborg-Like Dilemma
Ruddiman was not gullible: At times, he [Lomborg] does undercut his credibility by recycling disingenuous arguments from global warming skeptics. Here is Ruddiman’s wording of Lomborg’s pet argument: Lomborg asks whether it makes more sense committing a relatively large amount of money to try to reduce future global warming by suppressing carbon emissions or spending a...
Dec 29th
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Lomborg-Like Dilemma
Ruddiman was not gullible: At times, he [Lomborg] does undercut his credibility by recycling disingenuous arguments from global warming skeptics. Here is Ruddiman’s wording of Lomborg’s pet argument: Lomborg asks whether it makes more sense committing a relatively large amount of money to try to reduce future global warming by suppressing carbon emissions or spending a...
Dec 29th
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IPCC Success Words
This is where the IPPCs authority – and authoritarianism – crested, and the oft repeated claims of “scientific consensus” about CAGW veer into uncritisizable (save for the ‘saintly “climate science” contributing scientists) propaganda claims. Lots of success-words there: authoritarianism, crested, saintly, propaganda. Here is an example of claims the IPCC made: ...
Dec 29th
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Lomborg Errors →
The web site Lomborg-errors has been established to document this claim. It gathers and publishes errors found in Bjørn Lomborg´s books, especially “The Skeptical Environmentalist” (2001) and Cool it! (2007).
Dec 28th
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Too Much Uncheerfulness
Keith, I believe the accusation is clearly formulated by Monbiot: I fear you are running the most insidious and subtle exercise in corporate propaganda I have yet encountered. To reach that conclusion, Monbiot does two things. First, he shows that Brandt has been promoting claims that are untrue. Second, he shows that Brandt has been promoting claims that have been made by corporations’...
Dec 28th
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Too Much Uncheerfulness
Keith, I believe the accusation is clearly formulated by Monbiot: I fear you are running the most insidious and subtle exercise in corporate propaganda I have yet encountered. To reach that conclusion, Monbiot does two things. First, he shows that Brandt has been promoting claims that are untrue. Second, he shows that Brandt has been promoting claims that have been made by corporations’...
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“I am intriqued by Willard’s blog, what is a nice young rocker like you doing...”
– Rafe Champion, enigmatically.
Dec 27th
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“I am intriqued by Willard’s blog, what is a nice young rocker like you doing...”
– Rafe Champion, enigmatically.
Dec 27th
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Processing Fragments
Raving, I’m glad that each fragment of your awareness captures the way-of-going-about-process. Here is a more mundane matter: Bart’s disprovable amounts to claiming that it is better to say nothing in public and outwardly go with the flow. Notwithstanding what disprovable this sentence is referring to, it is important to remind that Bart is arguing that Judith tries to “build bridges”...
Dec 26th
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Processing Fragments
Raving, I’m glad that each fragment of your awareness captures the way-of-going-about-process. Here is a more mundane matter: Bart’s disprovable amounts to claiming that it is better to say nothing in public and outwardly go with the flow. Notwithstanding what disprovable this sentence is referring to, it is important to remind that Bart is arguing that Judith tries to “build bridges”...
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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The luxurious life of an IPCC lead author →
A story of lust, fame, and money. By Eduardo Zorita.
Dec 25th
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“[T]he lone gunman facing the militia […]”
– CB, in the Miracle thread.
Dec 25th
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“[T]he lone gunman facing the militia […]”
– CB, in the Miracle thread.
Dec 25th
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Cargo Cult
AMac, Feynman’s compared what he believed were bad theories (mainly from psychology and pedagogy) to a “cargo cult”: http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm He used this analogy to speak of this: It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty–a kind of leaning over backwards. Feynman’s principle of scientific...
Dec 24th
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Cargo Cult
AMac, Feynman’s compared what he believed were bad theories (mainly from psychology and pedagogy) to a “cargo cult”: http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm He used this analogy to speak of this: It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty–a kind of leaning over backwards. Feynman’s principle of scientific...
Dec 24th
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“prestige!”
– Bart R, wishing to return to the good ol’ days.
Dec 24th
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“I think the discussion is into seriously diminishing returns at this point, and...”
– Ross McCitrick, knowing when to close debate.
Dec 23rd
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“Seven years later, Hughes is still sitting on the “bones” of his manuscript...”
– Steve, empathically.
Dec 23rd
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“Seven years later, Hughes is still sitting on the “bones” of his manuscript...”
– Steve, empathically.
Dec 23rd
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This is Not Science
AMac, I believe it’s not a bug, but a feature of the concept of “science” put forward in Zajko’s post. Saying: This is not science. is not used to express a descriptive judgement, but a normative one. Of course, this normative judgement has to be put into an appropriate network of normative concepts, by which we can judge if some action is elegant or a misconduct. Realizing that it is...
Dec 23rd
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This is Not Science
AMac, I believe it’s not a bug, but a feature of the concept of “science” put forward in Zajko’s post. Saying: This is not science. is not used to express a descriptive judgement, but a normative one. Of course, this normative judgement has to be put into an appropriate network of normative concepts, by which we can judge if some action is elegant or a misconduct. Realizing that it is...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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AGU Climate Science Q&A for Copenhagen →
Dec 22nd
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AGU Climate Science Q&A for Copenhagen →
Dec 22nd
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Is Name Calling an Effective Communication... →
Yes and no.
Dec 21st
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Is Name Calling an Effective Communication... →
Yes and no.
Dec 21st
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WatchWatch
Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“Judy, if in the fiber story, something equivalent to the Climategate emails had...”
– Steve, thought experimenting.
Dec 20th
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“Judy, if in the fiber story, something equivalent to the Climategate emails had...”
– Steve, thought experimenting.
Dec 20th
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“What are you trying to accomplish by writing blog comments? Who is your intended...”
– AMac, rehearsing fundamental questions.
Dec 19th
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“He did not actually say so, but he uses language that can easily be interpreted...”
– Richard Tol, easily interpreting.
Dec 19th
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“He did not actually say so, but he uses language that can easily be interpreted...”
– Richard Tol, easily interpreting.
Dec 19th
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The Tweets →
@nevaudit
Dec 19th
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Reinventing the Wheel
Judith, Would it possible to consider that what you are trying to call a dogma is what Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm, or Imre Lakatos a research programme? It’s not impossible to talk about a paradigm in crisis or a degenerating research programme. Even Ravetz’ misunderstood concept of post-normal science could be invoked. There is no need to reinvent the wheel if what you want to talk about...
Dec 18th
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Reinventing the Wheel
Judith, Would it possible to consider that what you are trying to call a dogma is what Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm, or Imre Lakatos a research programme? It’s not impossible to talk about a paradigm in crisis or a degenerating research programme. Even Ravetz’ misunderstood concept of post-normal science could be invoked. There is no need to reinvent the wheel if what you want to talk about...
Dec 18th
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“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of...”
– Joseph Welsh’s famous line to McCarthy.
Dec 18th