noddy wrote:ignorance is hard work, constant vigilance is required.Simple Minded wrote:
ignorance also needs no sales staff.......
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noddy wrote:ignorance is hard work, constant vigilance is required.Simple Minded wrote:
ignorance also needs no sales staff.......
He no play a da game, he no make a da rules.
Reading some of our shogun's posts is like watching a black and white second rate movie from the '50s. It wasn't any good or funny then, and it is even worse now. But what can you expect from someone who gets all starry-eyed with pictures of Joan Crawford or Rita Hayworth...re: Popes
Earl Butz said it best, in another context, decades ago
He no play a da game, he no make a da rules.
Butz was well named. The referee is never a player.Typhoon wrote:re: Popes
Earl Butz said it best, in another context, decades ago
He no play a da game, he no make a da rules.
Excellent article! Thanks. Very similar to people emotionally herding in the financial markets. What is the fashionable trend du jour?Typhoon wrote:Quadrant - Ridley | The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science
9zzbmbDOhh8Nonc Hilaire wrote:Butz was well named. The referee is never a player.Typhoon wrote:re: Popes
Earl Butz said it best, in another context, decades ago
He no play a da game, he no make a da rules.
I don't quite get your point. Science has obviously been corrupted by the government supported university system and corporate largesse. We have covered this well in other threads about scientism and bad research.Simple Minded wrote:Is it just me, or is it getting harder to discern "Science as Religion" from "Religion as Science?"
The Religion as Science guys are the ones wearing nightshirts and funny hats. right?
And the Science as Religion are the ones who say "If you don't agree with me, you can go to Hell!' rather than If you don't agree with me, you are going to Hell!" right?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eur ... story.html
Luckily, the experts in both camps have impeccable records of accuracy.....
Pick a herd and moooooooove along.....
Very good exposition in the video. Thank you.Yukon Cornelius wrote:“@CTMinBC: On CO2, "most of what you can do has already been done."—physicist William Happer.
http://t.co/j8YSFY0wdd
I agree. I was simply pondering those I know who are firmly biased in the camp of religion as truth, or the camp of science as truth, and who think those who are in the other camp as stupid and/or insane. Are their respective faiths shaken, by the momentary coming together of the opposing camp ground councilors?Nonc Hilaire wrote: I don't quite get your point. Science has obviously been corrupted by the government supported university system and corporate largesse. We have covered this well in other threads about scientism and bad research.
Religion is not as cohesive an entity, and fewer people are religious. Here the media selects which religious ideas to showcase, and 'man bites dog' is news but 'dog bites man' is not interesting. The mainstream get little attention, but in science only the mainstream get tenure and funding.
The pope has a tough row to hoe on this matter. Appeal to the masses using a currently chic topic, which requires he adopt their lexicon, all the while trying to not sound like one of the "science as religion" fanatics/charlatans who claim their data, hypothesizes, and computer models are divine.... and.... " therefore beyond contestation."Nonc Hilaire wrote:Religion is not much use in determining HOW to science, but essential in influencing WHAT to science. Pope Francis is kinda mixed up on AGW, but if you read him at any depth it's obvious he is making a plea for science to prioritize environmentalism and not really getting into the how of AGW.
In hindsight, the Pope probably wishes he had you on his science Advisory board...... or the Papal council on public relations....Typhoon wrote:Have to say that I prefer a tough ho' (typo fixed) to row over a tough row to hoe.
Excellent presentation. Thanks! Good to hear the opinions of a "practical" scientist. I liked his opinions on ethanol.Typhoon wrote:Ivar Giaver (2015) | Global Warming Revisited