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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
February 25, 2010
Category: humor
This has nothing to do with climatology, or science in general, but I can't resist sharing it with you. From the instructions to our new DTV antenna, which until the Great Ice Storm of 2010 damaged its transformer-coaxial connection, brought...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:15 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2010
Category: climate
It sounds so creepy, evoking as it does the allure of the sex trade and fear of communism, and yet implying a degree of scientific precision. What could be more American?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:23 AM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 17, 2010
Category: climate
If ever there was a straw man in climatology circles
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:41 AM • 89 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 16, 2010
Category: journalism
Even if myriad non-journalist bloggers are tempted to pass on unchecked allegations as fact, surely any respectable news outlet's staff should know better, no?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:54 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 12, 2010
Category: climate
David Roberts at Grist, riffing on This American Life's Ira Glass, nails it on the head: "...news reporting is declining in part because of just this phenomenon: reporters do not react like human beings. The audience doesn't see or hear...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:13 AM • 96 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate
Via the ever-vigilant Stoat, I draw your attention to a letter to the Netherlands parliament from by 55 Netherlands scientists. Along with the usual "the science remains sound" defense of our understanding of anthropogenic global warming, it provides some useful...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:43 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 11, 2010
Category: climate
"Fabricated quote used to discredit climate scientist" is the headline in The Independent
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:48 AM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 9, 2010
Category: climate
In case anyone is wondering why I haven't posted anything for the past few days, what with all the fuss over the IPCC and all, it's not because I'm reluctant to comment on it. It's just that my little piece...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:41 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 4, 2010
Category: climate
They've switched from attacking the science to attacking the scientists.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:44 AM • 69 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 2, 2010
Category: climate
We should no more confuse controversies surrounding a single paper with an entire body of science than we should confuse one blustery day in January with 150 years of an inexorably warming planet.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:15 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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