Thursday, July 25, 2013

On "Settled Science"

I prefer to call it non-science. Science is never settled and only a politician like Al Gore would ever say that it was.

5 comments:

BB-Idaho said...

We might consider that scientific laws which are consistently mathematically predictable are more
or less settled; thermodynamics for example. Climate science is still sorting out the data clutter .

Barlowe Bayer, A Very Stable Genius said...

One would think that some science is "settled", for the time being at least. Climate science is one of those that is settled only so far as the Democrats are concerned. Many on the Right recognize it for the fraud it is.

dmarks said...

The data clutter is one thing. The evil intention efforts of frauds masquerading as scientists is another.

Doesn't matter if the data is cluttered or perfectly ordered if you have the guys at East Anglia fabricating their own conclusions without regard to the data.

BB-Idaho said...

Bayer brings up an interesting topic. The Right considers it fraud, the left considers it settled. Neither,of course,are
trained climatologists; one ponders the existence of some sort of political presuppositionalism...

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

In my mind, there are only 2 things that we know for certain; logical truths (2+2=4) and matters of fact (Obama is the President). Everything else is subject to change, including the laws of physics (something else could ultimately be responsible for that apple hitting the ground).