From Bertrand Russell: “The first thing to realize…is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with …
Category: Renewables – Science
Conspiracy Theories
In the spirit of keeping up on conspiracy theories, I present the meme at left. I’m hoping this is a fad that will vanish as mysteriously as it arrived. Can you imagine, 20 years ago, telling people that a certain …
On Being Reasonable
The meme here is a joke, of course, but it points to something very real, and quite important, in this time where so many people reject all evidence they see around them in order to hold on to one or …
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Happy Birthday, John Venn
Set theory and its representation by Venn Diagrams have been around long before I was a boy in 6th grade math class, and we spent probably a month on this discipline that was considered very important at the time. For …
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Trafficking in Bull****
An anti-vaxxer sent me the meme here. In actuality, Australia’s vaccination rate is 84.6%, and it has one of the lowest per capita death rates in the world, at 471/M. The problem with these people seems to be that they …
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Grid Reliability and Renewable Energy — Dispelling a Few Myths
Opponents of clean energy claim that adding more renewable sources to the grid mix makes it unreliable–but is that true? A recent report from Yale 360, published by the Yale School of the Environment, takes on this important question. A great deal …
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No Quick and Easy End to QAnon-Style Conspiracy Theorists
As suggested here, the QAnoners of the world have a handy defense, one that’s going to be hard to beat. They claim that the fact-checkers that expose their ideas as silly and baseless were actually put in place because their …
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Humility and Science
Here’s another good statement on science and the limits of our understanding. Whatever the proportion of known to unknown may be, one thing is certain: it’s always improving.
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Trusting Science
When you think about it, the meme here makes the exact opposite point it’s intended to. In all four cases, business created and marketed a product, only to have science come along and study it, determine it was dangerous, and …
We March According To Our IQ
A few years ago we had the “March for Science,” and it occurred to me that most of the people who participated in it were pretty bright folks. It would be interesting to know their average IQ; I would speculate …
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