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UK Flooding Events and Fake Science
UK Flooding Events and Fake Science Blöschl et al (2017, ref 1) published a paper in Sciencethat purports to show flooding in S England occurs every year but only ever in January and that flooding is disconnected in time from extreme rainfall events via water storage in soils. The changing pattern with time is ascribed […]
Split personalities: We like some science, but not all of it
Split personalities: We like some science, but not all of it We modern folk are in a bind. We embrace what the sciences and the technology that flows from them have to offer, but we refuse to believe that we live in the world described by those very sciences. Here I’m not merely talking about […]
Why Mainstream Science is a Religion
Why Mainstream Science is a Religion Mainstream science — despite all its claims of objectivity, and despite the fact it attempts to lay claim to the truth — is itself a religion. Science places itself on a pedestal and assures everyone it has dispassionately arrived at its conclusions. Meanwhile, however, it is full of assumptions, denials and limitations, and […]
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity While we’re discussing education, the theme of the current series of posts here on The Archdruid Report, it’s necessary to point out that there are downsides as well as upsides to take into account. The savant so saturated in abstractions that he’s hopelessly inept at the business of […]
Toxic Wheat, GMOs and the Precautionary Principle
Toxic Wheat, GMOs and the Precautionary Principle Ben Shahn Daughter of Virgil Thaxton, farmer, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio 1938Recently, I posted a two-tear old article on facebook.com/TheAutomaticEarth that was shared so many times it seems to make sense to use it for an Automatic Earth article as well. The article asks how toxic the wheat we eat is […]
Why you can’t argue with a “modern”
Why you can’t argue with a “modern” The modern world is filled with things many of us regard as antiquated and old-fashioned. Modern people often say that ancient rituals are mere superstition, that science tells us what is real and what is not, and that we are now free from ideas including untestable ideas from […]
Factual Science and Maybe Science
Factual Science and Maybe Science I am not against genetic modification but only against the way that herbicide manufacturers are using it to justify patenting any plant in nature that interests them and then, in my opinion, trying to use the patents to gain unfair monopolies in the food and farm economy. So whenever I […]
Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate?
Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate? On Monday this week, and rather late in the day, Dr Colin Summerhayes from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left this lengthy comment at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen’s post called Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science. I wanted to respond to some of the […]
Nuclear Radiation, Kierkegaard, and the Philosophy of Denial
Nuclear Radiation, Kierkegaard, and the Philosophy of Denial It used to be, and indeed children are still taught in schools, that the advances that have been made in the last five hundred years (antibiotics, electricity, computers etc) resulted from the application of Science and its overthrow of dogmatic belief. All ideas are put to the […]
Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism
Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism Faith in an ideology based on a desire for power over others and the need to feel personally superior without any legitimate accomplishment is perhaps the most dangerous state of being an individual or society can adopt. I would refer to such a mindset as “zealotry,” an […]
Duality in climate science
Duality in climate science A commentary published in Nature Geoscience (online Oct. 2015) Brief Abstract: The commentary demonstrates the endemic bias prevalent amongst many of those developing emission scenarios to severely underplay the scale of the 2°C mitigation challenge. In several important respects the modelling community is self-censoring its research to conform to the dominant political and economic […]
The Age of Finance Capital—and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics
The Age of Finance Capital—and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly […]
Economists vs. Economics
Economists vs. Economics Ever since the late nineteenth century, when economics, increasingly embracing mathematics and statistics, developed scientific pretensions, its practitioners have been accused of a variety of sins. The charges – including hubris, neglect of social goals beyond incomes, excessive attention to formal techniques, and failure to predict major economic developments such as financial […]
