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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.

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me-fergus.jpg 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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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:
The Place
Where We Are Right


The Meaning of the
Island of Doubt


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Add to Technorati Favorites! Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.
--- 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.

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July 29, 2008

What do y'all think of THIS?

Category: climate

The man himself has been reduced to a footnote in the last advertisement from his new "we" campaign. The ad is scheduled to appear in the usual suspect media "to make sure Al Gore's clean electricity challenge stays on the...

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Exploring the climate whiplash

Category: climate

Many of the editors I've had to deal with, including one just last week, aren't up to the task of handling a story that deals with climate science.

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July 25, 2008

Latest no-no for climateers: tropical vacations

Category: climate

Jet flights near the equator do more damage than at high latitudes.

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July 23, 2008

No, no, no, no, no no!

Category: climate

When the journals stop running papers that highlight ocean-atmosphere mysteries, then and only then will be time to start thinking about geo and marine engineering schemes.

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July 22, 2008

Experts and intellectuals

Category: philosophy

Very few of those who aren't at least somewhat concerned about the consequences of business as usual on the climate front are climatologists.

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July 19, 2008

50,000 physicists can't be wrong! (Who said they were?)

Category: climate

Some people just jump to conclusions, I guess.

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July 17, 2008

100% clean electricity in 10 years?

Category: climate

I don't have time today to comment on Al Gore's latest challenge to America — "to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years" — except to say that such a plan...

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July 15, 2008

Sizzle: A review

Category: climate

I wanted to like Sizzle. I really did. I like Randy Olson's contributions here on ScienceBlogs to Shifting Baselines. Randy is a former marine biologist and I have a degree in marine biology. He thinks the climate crisis is one...

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July 11, 2008

The coming coral catastrophe

Category: climate

While no one would argue that the fate of hundreds of millions of humans who live in low-lying coastal regions is not a good enough reason to put the brakes on global warming, I'd like to see more attention paid to what's happening beneath the ocean surface at its current level.

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July 10, 2008

Everything you wanted to know about clean energy revolution

Category: climate

Not everyone here at ScienceBlogs is happy about a new project appearing here, under the auspices of SEED, and underwritten by none other than Shell. Yes, that's right, the big bad petro products transnational. "The Next Generation of Energy Ideas"...

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More cartoon madness

Category: humor

It's time for the Union of Concerned Scientists' annual scientific integrity editorial cartoon contest. See the candidates and vote for your favorite here. My favorite:...

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July 9, 2008

Hawai'i: doing the right thing

Category: climate

Installing solar water heaters in Hawai'i is picking the low-hanging fruit of climate change mitigation.

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July 7, 2008

Climate cartoons

Category: climate

Some guy named Ken Sprague had a thousand pounds of British currency to throw around each year so he decided, for the second year in a row, to hold a competition for editorial cartoons dealing with "climate change and other...

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