As you doubtless know by now, the Institute of Physics gave a wonderfully politically incorrect report on Global Warming. Predictably the boot came down on them hard. Academia is indeed like a communist country. They don’t shoot dissidents in Academia, but communist thought control seldom found it necessary to shoot people. It mostly worked by quietly blighting the lives of troublesome people.Â
Exegesis on the Institute of Physics report on the CRU emails
The Institute of Physics tells us. The Institute is concerned that, unless the disclosed e-mails are proved to be forgeries or adaptations, worrying implications arise for the integrity of scientific research in this field and for the credibility of the scientific method as practised in this context. In plainer words, climate science lacks credibility. That climate scientists tell us we are doomed unless we repent of our sins against Gaea …
Natural law and natural rights
Doc Zero attributes the modern idea of natural law to Hobbes. This is backwards. Hobbes originated the modern idea of facism. It was John Locke that originated the modern idea of natural rights deriving from natural law.
Physics calls out climate science
The institute of physics is arguably the most prestigious scientific institution. It has told us that climate science is not scientific, that the climategate emails are big deal. … unless the disclosed e-mails are proved to be forgeries or adaptations, worrying implications arise for the integrity of scientific research in this field and for the credibility of the scientific method as practised in this context. The CRU e-mails as published …
socialist medicine
Hot air reviews an interesting report from Britain. Patients were left unwashed in their own filth for up to a month as nurses ignored their requests to use the toilet or change their sheets; … Wards were left filthy with blood, discarded needles and used dressings … … … Food and drink were left out of reach, forcing patients to drink water from flower vases. … The problem is that …
Microsoft the good guys
Google is evil in that they spy on users, and that they censor their services, and politically cook their search results. Microsoft’s Bing has not yet been detected cooking their search results Microsoft reports to law enforcement to what extent they spy on users, the report was leaked, and the interesting fact is that they log less than anyone else. They only log the last ten logins, and when you …
The suicide of the elites
Participatory transexual vomiting as high art. This illustrates Unwin’s “Sex and Culture†– that no civilization long survives the end of the patriarchy and female chastity. Unwin’s suggested explanation for this observation is that civilization is produced by the Freudian energy of sexual repression. I favor the theory that civilization is created by patriarchs for their offspring. Another plausible theory is that civilizations survive by high asabiya, Roissy being a …
The problem with peer review
Peer review is not part of the scientific method. In most fields, for example physics, it is a new thing, and wherever it has become a standard thing, we see stagnation. Peer review keeps out cranks, but it also keeps out the impious. It makes it safe for a science to become a religion, and for scientists to become priests of a state sponsored theocracy. Cranks have never been a …
The bubble in government paper
The US budget proposes that by 2020, debt service on federal debt will be ten percent of GDP. This is politically impossible. The interest will be paid by borrowing more money.
Where the money went
The government has been shuffling the money around to obfuscate who stole it. It lends money, and then announces that there is no problem, the money has been paid back. But after much fiddling, the money has mostly come to rest, in that the government is now the proud owner of about one trillion dollars of mortgage backed securities guaranteed by Fannie, Freddie, and the FHA, plus some Fannie, Freddy, …