Neverending Audit

[According to my confidential source, this comment by Vaughan Pratt wins the Internet forever.]

I would call it a point made in a different fork and thus not a point made in the response you claimed I ignored a part of.

Brandon, no one (modulo my remark at the bottom) is being “stupid” here as you claim. You’re running into WordPress’s inability to keep two consecutive comments together, which can be moved far apart as comments between them pile up.

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[Vaughan Pratt offers a counterpoint to the usual YesButMike.]

Why? because his paleo argument, as it stands, really contributes very little to our understanding of sensitivity.

If you’re referring to modern sensitivity, Steven, I would agree because it is so strongly influenced by the high rate of global warming, creating a huge gap between theoretical and observed sensitivity. The argument that humankind rode out the MWP without a sweat, so to speak, is invalidated by the point that we weren’t subjected to the rapid change we experienced during the past half-century.

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[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.

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[Vaughan Pratt answers this question.]

Spencer titled the 8/8/05 article I cited above “Faith-based evolution.” I can see all sorts of articles organized in this way. “Faith-based AGW.” “Faith-based vaccination.” “Faith-based nanotechnology.” In general, “Faith-based X” where X is whatever corner of science or technology is currently under attack from some corner of society.

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