Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Truth Wears Off

The Truth Wears Off

For many scientists, the effect is especially troubling because of what it exposes about the scientific process. If replication is what separates the rigor of science from the squishiness of pseudoscience, where do we put all these rigorously validated findings that can no longer be proved? Which results should we believe? Francis Bacon, the early-modern philosopher and pioneer of the scientific method, once declared that experiments were essential, because they allowed us to “put nature to the question.” But it appears that nature often gives us different answers. [The Truth Wears Off]

Gore and Canziani Exposed
Gore and Canziani Exposed

I see a direct link from the explosion of junk science that plagues us, and Obama's birth certificate question.   For instance.

Penn State professor Michael Mann is positively shown to have manipulated data to promote a rapid, recent rise in the Earth's temperature [See Climategate], attributable to my use of hairspray.  Much of his scam is believed to have been prepared while employed by the University of Virgina however.  Requests for access to his UVA papers had been refused by the University,  until newly elected not-a-democrat Virginia A/G Ken Cuccinelli took UVA to court - and won!  So, finally, we get to see what Al Gore's brain trust was up to in the erstwhile era.  Who could complain about a little sunshine? 

That's right.

Va. Democrats look to stop climate change probe

Hard left liberals, which today include every democrat in congress, have always fought tooth and nail to prevent sunlight from creeping in.  And, even when the sun prevails, to the point of burning their collective asses, they will still continue the stonewall.  To this very day some refuse to believe Alger Hiss was a commie MoFo.  Refuse to believe the  Rosenbergs were guilty.  Refuse to this day, despite overwhelming evidence. that claims about man cause climate change were manufactured, congressional democrats are still trying to pass climate change legislation.  Even though the Obama administration has proffered not a single piece of authenticated evidence of  his U.S. birthright, people who question it are (in the Soviet style, I might add) deemed crack-pots. They don't care about Obama.  They care about how they will look if the truth outs.  The truth has worn off of everything boss.  Everything.  History is rewritten.  Transcripts are altered.  News goes unreported.  If you and me are schooled in two versions of history, guess what happens?  No, don't guess.  It's happened.

But Rodge, what can we do about it? 

The first step is to understand the enemy. Evan Sayet is a great primer.


The next step is to use a flamethrower on them.

6 comments:

DougM said...

For this kind of thing,
I award the "Trofie."

Rodger the Real King of France said...

[Jack Benny] Well! [\Jack Benny]

Anonymous said...

Bravo ! : )

Anonymous said...

The scientific method is now computer projection. I would like to see one of those well funded CSMFBBBBs feed their data into their models and predict the last 10 or 20 years.

Cosmology and evolution are interesting theories but there are no experiments that can prove or disprove them. Relativity was based on prior unexplained experiments and Einstein was able to make predictions as to how light would behavior in a gravitational field which were then verified during the next solar eclipse. In the days of CRTs, you would never be able to get a focused image without adjusting for electrons traveling near light speeds.

What verifiable predictions have the AGW folks made?

Laurence

Helly said...

Very useful, Rodge.

A friend gave me an adage which I found both useful and puzzling for some years: If you want to know what a Lefty is doing, listen to what he accuses normal people of doing.

Evan provides the psychological foundation for this at 19:20 minutes. I'm grateful.

pdwalker said...

Great explanation.

However, I'm a simple person who likes simple explanations. I'm going to go with one or more of "retarded, insane, stupid, evil"

It's hard to decide which.

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