Negative Space: scientific method
- Climate priests cry wolf one more time?
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In science, if your theory’s predictions don’t happen, you need a new theory. In religion, if your beliefs predict something that doesn’t happen, you just keep moving that prediction further into the future.
- Global warming vs. oiled dolphins
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Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming critics are more dangerous than oil execs who kill dolphins, and need to be buried deeper than two million year old bones. But this makes CAGW a non-science. Science requires criticism or it isn’t science. Science-oriented media outlets are doing CAGW scientists a disservice by protecting them from competing theories.
- The gullible media and the chocolate factory
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Journalists, because of their background and temperament, are specially unsuited to report on science.
- Our Cybernetic Future 1954: Entropy and Anti-Entropy
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In 1954, Norbert Wiener warned us about Twitter and other forms of social media, about the breakdown of the scientific method, and about the government funding capture of scientific progress.
- The scientific creed
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If science is your religion, you have chosen the hardest religion of all. If science is your religion, you don’t prove yourself right. You prove yourself wrong.
