Posted by Kromey at 4:12pm Dec 4 '09Further attacks since have made it clear what is going on. [Bjorn] Lomborg[, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist,] is charged with heresy. That's why none of his critics needs to substantiate their attacks in any detail. That's why the facts don't matter. That's why they can attack him in the most vicious personal terms. He's a heretic.
Of course, any scientist can be charged as Galileo was charged. I just never thought I'd see the Scientific American in the role of mother church.
Michael Crichton was a great, brilliant man. His death was a real blow the entire world, not just to the fans of his books. I've read some of his speeches before (although somehow missed this one), and he always cuts right to the bone of the matter, backed up with solid research, a brilliant mind, and a level of articulation that I can only dream about.
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.
Of course, any scientist can be charged as Galileo was charged. I just never thought I'd see the Scientific American in the role of mother church.
Michael Crichton was a great, brilliant man. His death was a real blow the entire world, not just to the fans of his books. I've read some of his speeches before (although somehow missed this one), and he always cuts right to the bone of the matter, backed up with solid research, a brilliant mind, and a level of articulation that I can only dream about.
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.
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