Comments on: See you in Stillwater?

By: website

website — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:33:23 +0000

He was one of the football coaches, and a known comedian in class. HD209458b, an exosolar planet in this constellation, has shown evidence of atmospheric water vapour on spectroscopic analysis.

By: Brittney Shilson

Brittney Shilson — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:37:39 +0000

Greg,
Being one of your students, I would never think of discrediting your knowledge or questioning the validity of it, because you know much more than I, and I thoroughly enjoyed your class. This is just a good example of the types of things I could face going into an anthropologists world, as well as the social sciences and liberal arts. Hope your holiday was wonderful!

By: Lowell Gilbert

Lowell Gilbert — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:42:31 +0000

The phrase “global warming” certainly does mislead many people (“if the globe is warming, why is it so cold out”), but I still think it’s important. To anyone who’s studied basic mechanics, pumping energy into a complicated system with numerous second-order (and higher) effects is exciting activity. Large oscillations and less-predictable behaviour in general are simply what you expect.

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:38:31 +0000

From the indispensable Crackpot Index:

36. 40 points for claiming that when your theory is finally appreciated, present-day science will be seen for the sham it truly is. (30 more points for fantasizing about show trials in which scientists who mocked your theories will be forced to recant.)

Since Baez gives everybody -5 points to start, that means that poster #1 has a crackpot score of at least +65, based on that post alone. That doesn't rule out his being a "real scientist" as he claims (far too many scientists have "gone emeritus" one way or another), but I wouldn't bet that he is.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:42:06 +0000

Geoff, I usually do delete comments like this. At present, though, there is an ongoing conversation on what climate science denialism looks like, and is a good example of one of its many manifestations. I may even use it in the talk I’m giving.

By: Geoff Harris

Geoff Harris — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:14:40 +0000

Greg, what is gained by leaving such posts up (#1)? Just delete it.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 04:47:00 +0000

Lars, for starters, I’m a palaeoanthropologist. I assume you don’t know what that means, but since I am one I can tell you that I am a “real scientist”

Second, I regard your comment as utterly inappropriate, verging on death threat; henceforth you will be silent.

By: Lars Andersen

Lars Andersen — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 03:28:03 +0000

Good grief. Now we got anthropologists and sociologists getting on the global warming bandwagon–as if they know what they are talking about. Its bad enough to have pseudoscientists putting forth their irreproducible ‘science’ as fact without these clowns also seeking attention. There should be Nuremberg style trials for all these poseurs. What a joke. Copernicus and Galileo were right and we have learned nothing to continue entertaining these fools!!!

From a real scientist, not an “anthropologist”