Comment Re:What is science? (Score 1) 355
What are observations if not data? What is the result of your experiments if not data?
Science: systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
For observations you need data. You will also need something to test your experiments against... Data. You can either collect it yourself or purchase it if it is already available. Are the republicans offering to purchase the data or are they rent seekers?
I RTFA and don't get the controversy.
Are these same republicans also providing additional funds for the EPA to purchase privately held data sets or are they defunding the EPA? Or do the republicans want to use the coercive power of the state to force other people to provide the EPA, gratis, the fruits of their labor?
for instance, as a scientist I may want to purchase a data set for my study. I am not entitled to provide that data set to others. I can document my methods and others can purchase that data set or an equivalent one and run the same or similar methods on it. There is no secrecy here but there is a private company with an asset that they are charging for. Should the science based on the asset be disqualified? Should the state purchase the data, and if so are the republicans willing to fund that? Should the state use force to commandeer the asset?
not have to worry about if he thinks that I think, etc.
I think he's wrong on this. A computer would still need to consider what his opponent thinks he holds and raise accordingly.
the greatest authoritarian government, run by the most fascist, megalomaniacal, sadistic person who has ever lived, would find no better tool of absolute control than mandatory hard drug use like meth,
Why not? He took them himself: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Coal bed methane, that is in the cracks and pores of coals, is old, old and well known thing.
Yeah. It's even mentioned in TFA:
This indicates the methane emissions should not be attributed to fracking but instead to leaks in natural gas production and processing equipment in New Mexico's San Juan Basin, which is the most active coalbed methane production area in the country.
'The results are indicative that emissions from established fossil fuel harvesting techniques are greater than inventoried,' Kort said.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
