Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth GOOD NEWS! The malign influence of the Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Global Warming meme (CAGW) (1) that more than 40 years ago escaped to infect the world – like a virus from a Wuhan Lab – is finally beginning to collapse. The evidence is clear. Despite […]
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There is No Wisdom in Crowds The present system of science publishing is broken. Abuse and fraud are common and increasing. Ways of overcoming this are suggested. ************* In 2023, the New Scientist Magazine reported that chemist Jose Manual Lorenzo, an Associate Professor at a regional […]
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.” Albert Einstein, 1953 Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of uncertainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none […]
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The fashion for fact checking “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods”. – Albert Einstein, 1953 “If we are not able to ask sceptical questions, to interrogate those who tell […]
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THE UNRAVELLING OF SCIENCE “Facts no longer made contact with the theory, which had risen above the facts on clouds of nonsense, rather like in a theological system. The point was not to believe the theory but to repeat it ritualistically and in such a way that […]
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FEAR OF FAT Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds; while they only recover their senses one by one. Charles Mackay, 1841 In 1841, Scottish journalist Charles Mackay wrote a book called Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the […]
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