The CEI is still at it -- fighting reason
Category: climate
It's important to call out the CEI whenever they engage in such mendacious behavior.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Island of Doubt
An irregular exploration of the struggle between the power of rational discourse and the scientific method on one hand, and the forces of superstition and dogma on the other. Mostly regarding climate change, though.
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James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
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- Record high and low temps: An interesting trend
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- The link between the climate denial and anti-vaccine crowds
- Climate control in Canada: And now the good news
- Another nail in the Superfreakonomics coffin
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Inspiration
The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle
in the Dark,
by Carl Sagan
(A
review)
The Doubter's Companion:
by John Ralston Saul (Excerpts)
Skeptic Magazine: www.skeptic.com
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: www.csicop.org
A poem by Yehuda Amichai:
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The Meaning of the
Island of Doubt
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--- H. L. Mencken
By doubting we come to inquiry; and through inquiry we perceive truth.
--- Peter Abelard
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
-- Richard Dawkins
As for evolution, it happened. Deal with it.
-- Michael Shermer.
"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things
which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.
Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving, and
tiny blasts of tinny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may
he be ours, he may be us."
--Walt Kelly
March 31, 2008
I am not a number! I am free man!
Category: humor
A little April Foolishness now. Please help me fill in the blanks. Correct entries must come from television or film....
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:56 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2008
Al Gore is part of the problem -- new survey
Category: climate
It cannot be comforting to the researchers in the scientific community that the more trust people have in them as scientists, the less concerned they are about their findings
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:30 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2008
The Expelled! fiasco: What's wrong with telling it like it is?
Category: evolution
All hell is breaking loose as our little corner of blogosphere tries to come to grips with the wisdom of telling it like it is.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:03 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2008
A Skeptic's Theme Song!
Category: humor
Bob Carroll of The Skeptic's Dictionary, has produced a theme song for skeptics. Well, OK. He stole the music from Leonard Cohen. "The Tower of Song" becomes "The Tower of Woo." Actually, I think he's drawing on Bob Dylan at...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2008
Childhood's End: Arthur C. Clarke is dead
Category: Sci-culture
Arthur C. Clarke, proposer of the geosynchronous communications satellite, author of more than 100 books and third member of the ABCs of science fiction, is dead this day at 90. My favorite of his novels was The Fountains of Paradise,...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 6:32 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 17, 2008
What science ain't
Category: evolution
What do you expect when you read of the "four most powerful and profound scientific theories" since the 17th century, but come across no mention of evolution by natural selection?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:59 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2008
They're either liars or...
Category: climate
It is simply not credible to argue that the CEI team did not know about the discrepancy between their ad's claim and the truth.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2008
Cell phone idiocy
Category: technology
I also know most people, especially younger types, like to believe they are perfectly capable of multi-tasking. These people include some of my best friends and members of my family. I love them, but that's doesn't mean they're right.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:06 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Want to be a Scienceblogs Super Reader?
Category: misc
If you'd like to join a sort of Scienceblogs elite reader club, you've got two days to send me an email. Each blog here can nominate two readers for access to one massive club account on del.icio.us. You'll be asked...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:42 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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