For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore while I […]
The I-Must-Be-Right-Because-I-Can’t-Think-Of-Another-Reason Fallacy
The I-Must-Be-Right-Because-I-Can’t-Think-Of-Another-Reason—or IMBRBICTOAR, pronounced, in Latin, im-bri-bictor—has always been with us, but its use has latterly accelerated because of our culture’s fascination with self-esteem. Schools and universities in the West are turning […]
Monday Mail
Inbox I’m several hundred emails behind. This weekend, always the slowest of the year, allowed me to catch up some. I appreciate very much all the missives and apologize if everybody doesn’t […]
Curtis’s The Science Of Subjectivity
An unfocused post today; just some notes on a paper. Busy day for me. Andrew Curtis wrote, “The science of subjectivity” in the January 2012 issue of the journal Geology (sent to […]
Journal Editor Still Inserting Politics Into Science: Trevors and Saier Strike Back
The story thus far: Jack Trevors, bigwig at the learned journal Water Air Soil Pollution, and occasionally along with his pal Milton Saier, has been in the habit of abusing his position […]
High Priests Of (Climate) Science
“And thy response shall be: ‘Nothing hear our prayer’,” said the high priest of the Church of Science. “Nothing hear our prayer,” intoned the congregation. “For we shall be a light unto […]
The Economic Fallacy, Greenpeace, David Suzuki, And Global Warming
“You can’t believe what that guy says. He research was funded by Greenpeace!” The person uttering this sentence has committed the economic fallacy, which is the belief that the truth of research […]
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