Consensus, as Crichton pointed out, and more people would have read had he not been banned from making statements, worked against scientific progress for centuries and sometimes millenia. Dr. Crichton:
"In addition, let me remind you that the track record of the consensus is nothing to be proud of. Let's review a few cases.
In past centuries, the greatest killer of women was fever following childbirth . One woman in six died of this fever. In 1795, Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen suggested that the fevers were infectious processes, and he was able to cure them. The consensus said no. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed puerperal fever was contagious, and presented compelling evidence. The consensus said no. In 1849, Semmelweiss demonstrated that sanitary techniques virtually eliminated puerperal fever in hospitals under his management. The consensus said he was a Jew, ignored him, and dismissed him from his post. There was in fact no agreement on puerperal fever until the start of the twentieth century. Thus the consensus took one hundred and twenty five years to arrive at the right conclusion despite the efforts of the prominent "skeptics" around the world, skeptics who were demeaned and ignored. And despite the constant ongoing deaths of women."
Thats right, millions died because of scientific consensus that later turns out to be wrong. Galileo had no earthly idea just how good government would get at forcing people into ignorance.
Yes, all greens should be screeching about how we need to ban that giant hydrogen fusion reactor in the sky, larger than all the planets put together! I have found that greens follow one mindless hysterical fad after another. Their unscientific emotions always trump scientific fact.
Good thing Germans got hysterical and started screeching about nuclear plants that had harmed no one at all. Its not like Germans believe in Global Warming or anything. Oh, wait, yes they do. But hysteria wins out every time over good science. Good thing no reporter told the hysterics that more people died in car crashes in Germany than died at Fukishima. Then they might have a sense of proportion, or maybe even a sense of scale and not reacted that way.
Good thing no one told them that the Fukishima reactor was an older pressurized design that had it been a Thorium reactor would have had no accident whatsoever. Hysteria really works wonders.
If liberals would simply allow carbon free nuclear to be built we could have had carbon free energy 40 years ago and so could the rest of the world. Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, or anyone with an anti-alarmist view has never been against nuclear power. In fact they have promoted it as a pollution free way to cheap and abundant power since breeder reactors make their own fuel and burn their own waste! But the liberal left sure has done everything they could to try to get it stopped and for about 35 years now! I do not believe the alarmists WANT a solution. They want a boogeyman to point to and tell you to give the govt. more of your money and rights or it will get you.
Well just like our good buddy Hansen here, they were not crowing about extremely cold temperatures winter before last when it got into single digits in the south and snowed in Birmingham. That was just weather, see. Weather. Weather and climate are different we are told, when global warming is failing to warm. "Don't mistake weather for climate" is a stock phrase of alarmists. Over and over we are told that. We could say it in our sleep. UNTIL it gets really HOT: "Ohhhh, there is no doubt whatsover that its definitely CLIMATE!" Cue the muted trumpet.
The problem with federal loans is the same as the problem with Pell Grants: too much, too fast, too easy, too loose. There is too much fraud in both of them. Since no school wants to turn away tuition because that means their overpaid president must go out and find a real job, they take it. I have seen people who should have not been admitted do nothing but flunk out. There absolutely has to be higher standards for getting in. 18 ought to be the minimum ACT score, but it isn't because colleges would have to turn away too many people. 60% of students admitted to state schools need remediation. About 60% never graduate with a degree of any kind. So some of the areas with the biggest enrollments are remedial reading, basic writing, and basic math courses. If they can actually pass those with a C they get into the school and then flunk out completely (if its a half decent school). If its not they graduate without learning much and their degree isn't worth the paper its written on. We also have the problem where better than 70% of jobs don't really need a degree to work it but they require it anyway.
Hardly any of my undergraduate or graduate degrees did a thing for me other than get me a credential. No one pays me to know American History, World History, William Butler Yeats, calculus, health, volleyball, skating, bowling, or anything else I had to pay for as a requirement for my degree. How about American Judicial Politics? Not a chance! Physics? Nobody. Chemistry? Nope. Biology? Naw. Women in Fiction? No way. When I finally started teaching college courses it dawned on me that I could have taught myself just using the textbooks since I had never had any courses in what I taught anyway and had to learn it ahead of the class. Administrators are way overpaid for what they do, which isn't very much, and they now outnumber instructors. One at California State does nothing but go around and talk about diversity for $300,000 a year. No classes to teach, and they live off the students' overpriced tuition. The fact that the richest people on earth are college dropouts got me to wondering if college was just some kind of big rip-off not worth the overpriced tuition they keep raising every year. Oh, and if they don't stop letting people in on conditional entrance who can barely read or write all education will eventually collapse into one big money making machine and nothing else.
No amount of science trumps the power of unscientific liberal emotions. You must understand that they are very emotional about nuclear power, so therefore no amount of scientific fact will sway them. Next you will tell them that flying saucers and Bigfoot are not real.
All of the safety flaws could easily be fixed with a minimal amount of investment. Seawalls could be raised several feet, backup could be relocated farther away, and they could all be made walk-away safe with a pebble bed reactor. Nuclear is still one of the safest forms of power generation. It is safer than crossing the street.
Agreed. I thought most IT depts. understood that management knew very little if any of what they did on a day to day basis even if they don't read Dilbert.
What I would like to see in JAVA is a good textbook that uses Netbeans IDE. They are not all over the place like they are for VB.net. I teach intro and students who found.NET easy and fun find JAVA clunky and cumbersome.
Sure they do. I just deny there is this all encompassing conspiracy that makes girls feminine and boys masculine. And there is plenty of research for that, regardless of what you would prefer to believe about nature.
Right. And the refusal of liberals to accept safe and cheap carbon free power via nuclear is a choice that liberals made. They really don't want the problem solved because then they would have to find another scare tactic/ alarmist hysteria to grow big government.
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element and found from pole to pole, even on the ocean floor. It would be impossible to even try to eliminate a tiny part of that. But you could stop nearly all manmade carbon emissions by simply using nuclear. Nuclear is the solution, that is, if you actually WANT a solution and not another way for government to oppress people.
If you could stop yourself from trying to find ways to control and manipulate people and just use a proven scientific solution then the argument about whether it is or is not happening or manmade would be beside the point. All one needs to do is start using more nuclear power. Problem solved. Wait a second. You don't want the problem solved because then you could not use police state tactics against people. Never mind. Science never meant much to liberals anyway.
There would be no carbon based electrical generation by now if it were not for the unscientific emotions of liberals about nuclear power. Nuclear power is clean and requires no burning. Safety: it is safer that crossing the street, riding in a car, or air travel. But forget that because liberal emotions don't yield to science. The solution is already there, has been for decades now. But no, lets talk about who accepts AGW or not. Then talk about raising electricity bills 4x the current amount and other nonscientific civilization ending non-solutions.
Right. They can possess no natural desires of their own. They must possess only what we find to be politically correct because we say so. And if they do desire things not recommended by the PC police, we will deny the science of genetics exist and proclaim conspiracy.
It's less so natural tendencies, and rather a "conspiracy" of culture. Children are subjected to more gender-stereotype influence than just what they get from their parents. Nearly everything about the western culture kind of discourages women and girls from being techies, and geeks. (Any girl interested in such things would likely readily be labeled a "tomboy", I know I was...)
Oh so its a western thing. Women and girls are very much encouraged to be IT managers, computer geeks in Middle Eastern countries where they can be arrested for driving!
No matter how hard a parent fights against that trend, children naturally want to conform to the rest of their gender peers...
Good gosh I guess the parents of the woman head of IT at my company fought and won and every other parent must have lost
so while the actual positions themselves are less so natural, the "conspiracy" that girls want to conform to other girls, and boys want to conform to other boys, results in them all picking up certain common interests which make it difficult to distinguish from "nature".
Yes, Nigel, we know you really don't want to go with the rest of the lads and smash glass bottles in the dump with the rest of the boys. That is just a cultural conspiracy your parents are trying to fight against. You want to stay home and play with dolls! According to you women are TOLD by their peers not to do something and then they readily give up their dreams for this all-powerful group standing over them, brainwashing them so easily into their way of thinking. Gee, women sure cannot make decisions for themselves, they have to consult this group. Does it ever dawn on you that according to survey women prefer professions that deal with people more such as medicine and law instead of objects like electronics, mechanics, computers? Do you think that is wrong of them to be that way? I don't get any of this. You should be howling about the complete lack of women welders. Obviously there are hoards of teeming millions of women who want to weld but can't because they are so easily influenced by this sexist cadre that don't want women to weld. And the complete dearth of male nail technicians is an absolute crime. We know that all people are exactly alike no matter what reality says and they all have the exact desires in the exact proportional representation to the general populace.
Because of the constant PC brainwashing of modern society today, you can easily assert a statistically verifiable fact and start a fight about it because one gender does not like the sound of it. First, science has to be put through a PC machine so that it comes out sounding nice to the politically favored classes. If you state the fact that men are raped more than women a riot will break out. When you explain that it happens in prisons all the time they get a dumb look on their faces and state "Oh". In the "women are as good as men" and gender supremacy psychosis of feminism, the female must be the victim at all the times while proclaiming how superior they are to the man in every way. If you upset them then the superior gender will then find a male to come explain why she is right.
No feminism isn't biased at all. Some of the leading lights of feminism come out with fair statements like this. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle".
Indeed, NONE of them flirt at work, get involved in office romances, cheat on their spouses with a coworker, or even think about any of those things. They just want to do their jobs. I have known nurses who cheated on their spouses in the linen closet of the hospital with coworkers. But remember, they just want to do their jobs.
Diesel in America is now sulfur free. It also has added chemicals from urea to reduce other particulates. It is a far superior technology to gasoline and always has been. The sluggishness of the 80s diesels is easily eliminated by turbo charging and inter cooling, which nearly ALL of them are now. I believe there is a concerted effort to keep the U.S. from using diesel. What say we bet that Chevrolet CANCELS the diesel Cruz scheduled for next year? They have already done it once, I am willing to bet they do it again and then deep six it permanently. Using 100 million gallons less fuel a week would really ding the oil companies bottom.
Oh yeah, by ALL of them, I really mean the VW Jetta TDI, since the only other diesel cars sold here are high end luxury cars out of the price range of most people.
Yes, this denialist says that Florida is NOT under water no matter what you prefer to believe. Its a scientific fact. This denialist shows the lies that so called scientists have been touting for decades as bogus. This denialist shows last winter breaking record cold temps. With 100% of the predictions of AGW alarmists being proven false, this denialist says global warming is nothing but hot air.
Your guess is so wrong. How about using clean, scientifically proven carbon free technology like conservatives have been saying all along: Nuclear. Safety? It is scientifically safer than flying, riding in a car, or crossing the street. NONE of this science reaches the brains of liberals who hate nuclear because they have emotions. Their emotions tell them Nuclear is all bad, so no nuclear. This, and the top 100 other non-scientific emotional beliefs that liberals hold prevent our society from moving forward. Every coal plant in the country could have been replaced LONG ago if it were not for the unscientific emotions of liberals. But no nuclear so we are stuck with coal. Natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel, but its still a fossil fuel so they don't want that to go anywhere. Diesel engines are far more efficient than gasoline and therefore use less fuel and pollute less, but they don't want diesels to move forward as an intermediate step either because they have emotions about them too. Conservatism would move society forward EONS. Liberalism wants to pretend the world has not changed since the 1930s and pretty much keep it like that.
Science is not political, scientists are and they can be bought. When evidence clearly shows we are not going into a broiler like they said they hunt down that scientist and do everything they can to ruin him.
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Consensus, as Crichton pointed out, and more people would have read had he not been banned from making statements, worked against scientific progress for centuries and sometimes millenia. Dr. Crichton: "In addition, let me remind you that the track record of the consensus is nothing to be proud of. Let's review a few cases. In past centuries, the greatest killer of women was fever following childbirth . One woman in six died of this fever. In 1795, Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen suggested that the fevers were infectious processes, and he was able to cure them. The consensus said no. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed puerperal fever was contagious, and presented compelling evidence. The consensus said no. In 1849, Semmelweiss demonstrated that sanitary techniques virtually eliminated puerperal fever in hospitals under his management. The consensus said he was a Jew, ignored him, and dismissed him from his post. There was in fact no agreement on puerperal fever until the start of the twentieth century. Thus the consensus took one hundred and twenty five years to arrive at the right conclusion despite the efforts of the prominent "skeptics" around the world, skeptics who were demeaned and ignored. And despite the constant ongoing deaths of women."
Thats right, millions died because of scientific consensus that later turns out to be wrong. Galileo had no earthly idea just how good government would get at forcing people into ignorance.
Yes, all greens should be screeching about how we need to ban that giant hydrogen fusion reactor in the sky, larger than all the planets put together! I have found that greens follow one mindless hysterical fad after another. Their unscientific emotions always trump scientific fact.
Good thing Germans got hysterical and started screeching about nuclear plants that had harmed no one at all. Its not like Germans believe in Global Warming or anything. Oh, wait, yes they do. But hysteria wins out every time over good science. Good thing no reporter told the hysterics that more people died in car crashes in Germany than died at Fukishima. Then they might have a sense of proportion, or maybe even a sense of scale and not reacted that way. Good thing no one told them that the Fukishima reactor was an older pressurized design that had it been a Thorium reactor would have had no accident whatsoever. Hysteria really works wonders.
If liberals would simply allow carbon free nuclear to be built we could have had carbon free energy 40 years ago and so could the rest of the world. Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, or anyone with an anti-alarmist view has never been against nuclear power. In fact they have promoted it as a pollution free way to cheap and abundant power since breeder reactors make their own fuel and burn their own waste! But the liberal left sure has done everything they could to try to get it stopped and for about 35 years now! I do not believe the alarmists WANT a solution. They want a boogeyman to point to and tell you to give the govt. more of your money and rights or it will get you.
Well just like our good buddy Hansen here, they were not crowing about extremely cold temperatures winter before last when it got into single digits in the south and snowed in Birmingham. That was just weather, see. Weather. Weather and climate are different we are told, when global warming is failing to warm. "Don't mistake weather for climate" is a stock phrase of alarmists. Over and over we are told that. We could say it in our sleep. UNTIL it gets really HOT: "Ohhhh, there is no doubt whatsover that its definitely CLIMATE!" Cue the muted trumpet.
The problem with federal loans is the same as the problem with Pell Grants: too much, too fast, too easy, too loose. There is too much fraud in both of them. Since no school wants to turn away tuition because that means their overpaid president must go out and find a real job, they take it. I have seen people who should have not been admitted do nothing but flunk out. There absolutely has to be higher standards for getting in. 18 ought to be the minimum ACT score, but it isn't because colleges would have to turn away too many people. 60% of students admitted to state schools need remediation. About 60% never graduate with a degree of any kind. So some of the areas with the biggest enrollments are remedial reading, basic writing, and basic math courses. If they can actually pass those with a C they get into the school and then flunk out completely (if its a half decent school). If its not they graduate without learning much and their degree isn't worth the paper its written on. We also have the problem where better than 70% of jobs don't really need a degree to work it but they require it anyway.
Hardly any of my undergraduate or graduate degrees did a thing for me other than get me a credential. No one pays me to know American History, World History, William Butler Yeats, calculus, health, volleyball, skating, bowling, or anything else I had to pay for as a requirement for my degree. How about American Judicial Politics? Not a chance! Physics? Nobody. Chemistry? Nope. Biology? Naw. Women in Fiction? No way. When I finally started teaching college courses it dawned on me that I could have taught myself just using the textbooks since I had never had any courses in what I taught anyway and had to learn it ahead of the class. Administrators are way overpaid for what they do, which isn't very much, and they now outnumber instructors. One at California State does nothing but go around and talk about diversity for $300,000 a year. No classes to teach, and they live off the students' overpriced tuition. The fact that the richest people on earth are college dropouts got me to wondering if college was just some kind of big rip-off not worth the overpriced tuition they keep raising every year. Oh, and if they don't stop letting people in on conditional entrance who can barely read or write all education will eventually collapse into one big money making machine and nothing else.
No amount of science trumps the power of unscientific liberal emotions. You must understand that they are very emotional about nuclear power, so therefore no amount of scientific fact will sway them. Next you will tell them that flying saucers and Bigfoot are not real.
All of the safety flaws could easily be fixed with a minimal amount of investment. Seawalls could be raised several feet, backup could be relocated farther away, and they could all be made walk-away safe with a pebble bed reactor. Nuclear is still one of the safest forms of power generation. It is safer than crossing the street.
Agreed. I thought most IT depts. understood that management knew very little if any of what they did on a day to day basis even if they don't read Dilbert.
What I would like to see in JAVA is a good textbook that uses Netbeans IDE. They are not all over the place like they are for VB.net. I teach intro and students who found .NET easy and fun find JAVA clunky and cumbersome.
Sure they do. I just deny there is this all encompassing conspiracy that makes girls feminine and boys masculine. And there is plenty of research for that, regardless of what you would prefer to believe about nature.
Right. And the refusal of liberals to accept safe and cheap carbon free power via nuclear is a choice that liberals made. They really don't want the problem solved because then they would have to find another scare tactic/ alarmist hysteria to grow big government.
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element and found from pole to pole, even on the ocean floor. It would be impossible to even try to eliminate a tiny part of that. But you could stop nearly all manmade carbon emissions by simply using nuclear. Nuclear is the solution, that is, if you actually WANT a solution and not another way for government to oppress people.
If you could stop yourself from trying to find ways to control and manipulate people and just use a proven scientific solution then the argument about whether it is or is not happening or manmade would be beside the point. All one needs to do is start using more nuclear power. Problem solved. Wait a second. You don't want the problem solved because then you could not use police state tactics against people. Never mind. Science never meant much to liberals anyway.
There would be no carbon based electrical generation by now if it were not for the unscientific emotions of liberals about nuclear power. Nuclear power is clean and requires no burning. Safety: it is safer that crossing the street, riding in a car, or air travel. But forget that because liberal emotions don't yield to science. The solution is already there, has been for decades now. But no, lets talk about who accepts AGW or not. Then talk about raising electricity bills 4x the current amount and other nonscientific civilization ending non-solutions.
Right. They can possess no natural desires of their own. They must possess only what we find to be politically correct because we say so. And if they do desire things not recommended by the PC police, we will deny the science of genetics exist and proclaim conspiracy.
It's less so natural tendencies, and rather a "conspiracy" of culture. Children are subjected to more gender-stereotype influence than just what they get from their parents. Nearly everything about the western culture kind of discourages women and girls from being techies, and geeks. (Any girl interested in such things would likely readily be labeled a "tomboy", I know I was...)
Oh so its a western thing. Women and girls are very much encouraged to be IT managers, computer geeks in Middle Eastern countries where they can be arrested for driving!
No matter how hard a parent fights against that trend, children naturally want to conform to the rest of their gender peers...
Good gosh I guess the parents of the woman head of IT at my company fought and won and every other parent must have lost
so while the actual positions themselves are less so natural, the "conspiracy" that girls want to conform to other girls, and boys want to conform to other boys, results in them all picking up certain common interests which make it difficult to distinguish from "nature".
Yes, Nigel, we know you really don't want to go with the rest of the lads and smash glass bottles in the dump with the rest of the boys. That is just a cultural conspiracy your parents are trying to fight against. You want to stay home and play with dolls! According to you women are TOLD by their peers not to do something and then they readily give up their dreams for this all-powerful group standing over them, brainwashing them so easily into their way of thinking. Gee, women sure cannot make decisions for themselves, they have to consult this group. Does it ever dawn on you that according to survey women prefer professions that deal with people more such as medicine and law instead of objects like electronics, mechanics, computers? Do you think that is wrong of them to be that way? I don't get any of this. You should be howling about the complete lack of women welders. Obviously there are hoards of teeming millions of women who want to weld but can't because they are so easily influenced by this sexist cadre that don't want women to weld. And the complete dearth of male nail technicians is an absolute crime. We know that all people are exactly alike no matter what reality says and they all have the exact desires in the exact proportional representation to the general populace.
Because of the constant PC brainwashing of modern society today, you can easily assert a statistically verifiable fact and start a fight about it because one gender does not like the sound of it. First, science has to be put through a PC machine so that it comes out sounding nice to the politically favored classes. If you state the fact that men are raped more than women a riot will break out. When you explain that it happens in prisons all the time they get a dumb look on their faces and state "Oh". In the "women are as good as men" and gender supremacy psychosis of feminism, the female must be the victim at all the times while proclaiming how superior they are to the man in every way. If you upset them then the superior gender will then find a male to come explain why she is right.
No feminism isn't biased at all. Some of the leading lights of feminism come out with fair statements like this. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle".
Indeed, NONE of them flirt at work, get involved in office romances, cheat on their spouses with a coworker, or even think about any of those things. They just want to do their jobs. I have known nurses who cheated on their spouses in the linen closet of the hospital with coworkers. But remember, they just want to do their jobs.
Diesel in America is now sulfur free. It also has added chemicals from urea to reduce other particulates. It is a far superior technology to gasoline and always has been. The sluggishness of the 80s diesels is easily eliminated by turbo charging and inter cooling, which nearly ALL of them are now. I believe there is a concerted effort to keep the U.S. from using diesel. What say we bet that Chevrolet CANCELS the diesel Cruz scheduled for next year? They have already done it once, I am willing to bet they do it again and then deep six it permanently. Using 100 million gallons less fuel a week would really ding the oil companies bottom. Oh yeah, by ALL of them, I really mean the VW Jetta TDI, since the only other diesel cars sold here are high end luxury cars out of the price range of most people.
Yes, this denialist says that Florida is NOT under water no matter what you prefer to believe. Its a scientific fact. This denialist shows the lies that so called scientists have been touting for decades as bogus. This denialist shows last winter breaking record cold temps. With 100% of the predictions of AGW alarmists being proven false, this denialist says global warming is nothing but hot air.
Your guess is so wrong. How about using clean, scientifically proven carbon free technology like conservatives have been saying all along: Nuclear. Safety? It is scientifically safer than flying, riding in a car, or crossing the street. NONE of this science reaches the brains of liberals who hate nuclear because they have emotions. Their emotions tell them Nuclear is all bad, so no nuclear. This, and the top 100 other non-scientific emotional beliefs that liberals hold prevent our society from moving forward. Every coal plant in the country could have been replaced LONG ago if it were not for the unscientific emotions of liberals. But no nuclear so we are stuck with coal. Natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel, but its still a fossil fuel so they don't want that to go anywhere. Diesel engines are far more efficient than gasoline and therefore use less fuel and pollute less, but they don't want diesels to move forward as an intermediate step either because they have emotions about them too. Conservatism would move society forward EONS. Liberalism wants to pretend the world has not changed since the 1930s and pretty much keep it like that.
Science is not political, scientists are and they can be bought. When evidence clearly shows we are not going into a broiler like they said they hunt down that scientist and do everything they can to ruin him.