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Comment Re: There are three types of people (Score 1) 197

How about the track record of science, like respectable doctors in Garfield's time dismissing the idea of handwashing before surgery, because "what you can't see can't hurt you"?

Remember the parg in Cargo Cult Science about students replicating Millikan's error in his oil drop experiment because they wanted their data to agree with his?

How much of that is going on today?

Comment Re: Why not mention plate tectonics? (Score 1) 197

Did you forget that inertia creates the far side bulge, and that differences in ocean depth and coastlines etc. dwarf the kind of gravitational effect you're trying to make the dominant factor, so in reality, you cannot claim that the bulges are unequal within the margin of error?

Comment Re: Obviously (Score 1) 197

What about oxygen released by "batteries in rock" that we never knew about before isn't relevant to climate change models? What inputs are there that you have not modeled and what effect do they have that you are missing in your current models? How cherry-picked are your celebrations of observations matching predictions by happenstance, for the wrong reasons, like epicycle's predictions?

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