Marcott et al recant the blade of their Hockey stick This is a huge change, in that previously, when warmists lied, and got caught doing so, every scientific institution, every science journal, every prestigious academy, and every organized group of scientists would piously swear holy fealty to the lie. Now, instead, they quietly twist the liar’s arms behind closed doors.Â
Category: science
The latest PC
It used to be mandatory to believe that evolution was a mere creation myth, something that happened long, long ago, and far far away, but had not happened in the last hundred thousand years or so, so that it was impossible for there to be differences between races, or indeed between men and woman. But, in that case, we would still be shaped for eating meat and fat, and not …
Did Hormonal Contraception cause the destruction of the family?
The sexual revolution happened when the pill happened, that is, when Hormonal Birth Control happened. In the comments Spandrell provides compelling evidence that the effect of hormonal birth control on the sexual revolution was not very large.
Why Darwinism is more controversial than ever
Darwin not only tells us that one individual is not equal to another, he also tells us that races are the origin of species, which means that in general races will be unequal in major and important ways. Darwinism also tells us that men and women are genetically predisposed to different and unequal social roles, which implies that attempts to make their roles legally equal will not work very well. …
Teleology and Darwinism
Darwin freely used teleology as a metaphor for natural selection, that natural selection works as if an intelligent breeder was consciously pursuing a goal, as if aiming at horses, to take advantage of the grasslands, or as if aiming at men, to create a creature capable of planning and cooperating to defeat any creature less capable of planning and cooperation. And by an interesting coincidence, whosoever hates the metaphor, hates …
Postmortem on Warmism
We are always moving leftwards, but not every leftwards program succeeds. Should one fail, they try something different. I have not published much on warmism lately, because they were defeated by Climategate, even though every academic institution, every government institution, and every group of organized scientists swore fealty to Warmism, officially proclaimed that Climategate was no big deal, and have been trying to carry on as if Climategate was no …
The left singularity versus the technological singularity
Lately this blog has largely been about the left singularity:Â That leftism leads to more leftism, which leads to even more leftism even faster, until everything goes to hell. The best known singularity, however is the information technology singularity, the rapture of the nerds What of the theory that information technology leads to more information technology? Well, in a sense, in the long run, looking back over the last several …
Dude, where is my flying car?
The first man on the moon has died, and pretty soon the last men on the moon will be dead also. where are the space settlements? By the year 2000, we were supposed to have flying cars, space settlements, and cities that looked like this:
A tell revealing central authority over the official line
The most useful tells are short and sweet – you twit someone with something, and their response reveal their real beliefs and real motivations. This tell is, unfortunately, long, tedious and complex, but it not only reveals an elite that believes or pretends to believe in official truth absolutely regardless of evidence, but reveals that there is an official line, and the politically correct know it – reveals that they do …
Conservatives distrust official science
Lately leftists have been moaning that conservatives have lost faith in the scientific community. Conservatives distrust official science, because official scientist do not practice actual science, instead manufacturing official truth.