Earlier, Matthew Bailes and collaborators discovered a planet mass, carbon rich crystalline object orbiting a pulsar.
It was a very nice discovery, published in Science, and received a lot of attention, mostly all positive.
Matthew has now written a very interesting OpEd at The Conversation:
Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method
It is a very perceptive piece and make some very important points.
Please read it and join The Conversation.
"The scientific method is universal. If we selectively ignore it in certain disciplines, we do so at our peril."
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Really we need the data on babies born 30 years ago, but this is still pretty stunning:
Every once in a while Chris Matthews does a good deed. On last night's edition of Hardball he had conservative radio talk show host Kevin James on his show. James was keen to pontificate on the nature of appeasement. Matthews' other guest was Mark Green.
A collection of tweets showing things #Matthew related
Back in July, I sat down for an hour long interview with the new TED-like social media site Big Think.
Unfortunately, climate science is not the only field where the scientific method is selectively ignored. My wife, and a great many otherwise seemingly intelligent people, are cult-like believers in alternative medical systems such as homeopathy, in spite of clear scientific evidence against them. And there are also the creationists with their well known issues.
Heh. And economics. I will posit that the entire Republican party seems ignorant of some basic, well-proven economic principles.