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Comment There maybe something to it ... (Score 1) 112

As I understand it some of the value of a scientific theory lies in the testable predictions it makes that differ from those of others (as an aside I wonder if the authors have considered competition between scientific theories) so it would be interesting to see some for this theory. There's some discussion about what may or may not be going on in Titan's atmosphere but that doesn't really hit the spot, what we need are some predictions in one of the domains this theory covers that differ from what current explanations offer. Maybe that's something the authors are working on for the next paper. No predictions and it's just stamp-collecting.

Comment Foreigners (Score 3, Interesting) 262

I go to a lot of EU meetings in Brussels on behalf of the UK Govt. Like many English speakers I can order beer in a number of other European languages but usually a stronger grasp of the language is needed to understand the technical and policy comments made by my Austrian, French, German, Italian and Spanish colleagues (all of whom are under instruction to speak only in their native languages) - so it's on with the headphones to get the translation. It's my ambition to provide a contribution to the discussion in one of the other EU languages before I'm done - to see the momentarily baffled looks on my colleagues' faces and watch them scrabble to get their headphones on before I've finished.

Comment Re:Betteridge is actually wrong this time (Score 2) 159

I'm not sure a tip can be described as useful when it's wrong. Keynesianism (we could spend some time distinguishing what we mean by Keynesianism - are we using it to mean what Keynes discussed and proposed or what the political-economic consensus subsequently made it into) did not cause the Great Depression, it was the reliance on policies derived from reliance on neoclassical economics, as any fule kno.

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