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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.
James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist and communications consultant based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
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
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
January 30, 2010
Category: climate
James Delingpole continues to enjoy the privileges of blogging on the Daily Telegraph's imprimatur, despite his repeated misstatements on climatology. His latest affront to journalistic norms comes in the form of another alleged failure of a team of IPCC authors...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 5:09 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2010
Category: climate
There's a bunch of Americans out who believe in the science of anthropogenic global warming even though they don't think scientists share their view.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:27 PM • 48 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2010
Category: climate
By now, every climate pseudoskeptic on the net is cheering this latest pseudoscandal thanks to journalistic and scientific laziness.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:10 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 22, 2010
Category: politics
"The conceit that corporations must be treated identically to natural persons in the political sphere is not only inaccurate but also inadequate to justify the Court's disposition of this case."
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:24 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2010
Category: climate
By ruling that corporations are entitled to exercise unrestricted political speech, the U.S. Supreme Court has just made it much more difficult for Americans to make the transition from a fossil-fuel-based economy to a clean-energy economy. Most democracies, including, until...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 2:09 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 20, 2010
Category: politics
I awoke this morning in a universe with a quantum signature that differs from that of the universe in which I fell asleep. I know this because it's the only way I can explain last night's Republican victory in the...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 1:39 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 19, 2010
Category: climate
Dear Massachusetts voters: If for some reason you haven't yet decided who should get your vote in today's Senate election, consider this little piece of information about Republican candidate Scott Brown, courtesy of the Boston Globe: Brown typically skips climate...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:18 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2010
Category: climate
One could argue that the IPCC authors were specifically expected not to rely on the grey literature.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:12 PM • 89 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 15, 2010
Category: climate
Thanks to the dogged determination of über climate blogger Joe Romm, here's what Mojib Latif wants us all to understand about his previous references to a short-term cooling trend: Given all the warnings about and plans to forestall global warming,...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:50 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 12, 2010
Category: climate
We need a veritable avalanche of experts willing to take part in an organized assault on the public sphere.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:54 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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