While we wait for Nick Stokes and David Appell to work up excuses for their embracing the “climate scientists get death threats” fiasco, I thought I’d share this spinoff of this short passage I wrote yesterday:
Likewise, blogger/scientist Nick Stokes, who fancies himself as being cool and methodical, was completely taken in, and like Appell, seems unable to come to terms with his own quik-set epoxy position that seems to be a product of the tribalism he and Appell share.
Inspired, Benjamin D. Hillicoss has coined this new branch of post normal science, with a hat tip to climate science.
Benjamin D. Hillicoss writes:
epoxology: the science of sticking (permanently) to an untenable position
So many applications, so little time. In this case, I think we can say “the science is set”.
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UPDATE: Via slashdot, here is something that Appell and Stokes really should be worried about, as should we all:
quoting Nature: “A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists. A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has claimed responsibility for the non-fatal shooting of a nuclear-engineering executive on 7 May in Genoa. The same group sent a letter bomb to a Swiss pro-nuclear lobby group in 2011; attempted to bomb IBM’s nanotechnology laboratory in Switzerland in 2010; and has ties with a group responsible for at least four bomb attacks on nanotechnology facilities in Mexico. Another branch of the group attacked railway signals in Bristol, UK, last week in an attempt to disrupt employees of nearby defense technology firms (no word on whether anyone noticed the difference between an anarchist attack and a normal Wednesday on the UK’s railways). A report by Swiss intelligence says such loosely affiliated groups are increasingly working together.”
http://www.nature.com/news/anarchists-attack-science-1.10729
Ha ha ha ha! I love it. Epoxology. Heh heh heh
Mirism: Having one’s feet firmly in the mire.
I’m certainly not going to be the one who says that this is a sticky situation for Appell or that Nick Stokes is in a bit of a sticky wicket… or mention the social glue that the warmists and their buddies claim is supposed to bind us together…
or “the science is welded”
The dawn of the ‘Age of Resin’
Stokes is just trying to cement his bonds in the warmista community.
Could be said of Appell and Stokes-
“You are stuck on stupid”.-Lt. Gen. Russel Honore
I have been accused of having a degree in Epoxology. Just because I like to philosophize about odd things and I am not quick to give in…I do believe the (permanently) should have the ( ) removed… 😉
There is a difference between not giving in…and not knowing when to give up.
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Churchill
Epoxology… resinates with me
Revkin boughtt something similar: The Glieck Stick, the permanent bonding agent
“Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front”. That’s a mouthful. I wonder if they have problems getting all of that on Business cards?
Let’s see ‘OCIAFIRF’. Na, not nearly as interesting as “HYDRA”, “COBRA”, or “SMERSH”.
Anarchists of the world are uniting!
Andrew Newberg: Is the Churchill quote from WW I or WW II eras, that is pre-Gallipoli or pre-Battle for Britain? Just wondering because context can be important.
“A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists. A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has claimed responsibility for the non-fatal shooting of a nuclear-engineering executive on 7 May in Genoa. The same group sent a letter bomb to a Swiss pro-nuclear lobby group in 2011; attempted to bomb IBM’s nanotechnology laboratory in Switzerland in 2010; and has ties with a group responsible for at least four bomb attacks on nanotechnology facilities in Mexico. Another branch of the group attacked railway signals in Bristol, UK, last week in an attempt to disrupt employees of nearby defense technology firms “
But — have they sent any threatening e-mails…?
Luther Wu: “Could be said of Appell and Stokes ‘You are stuck on stupid’.”
or…
They’re stuck on bandwagon-aid, ’cause bandwagon-aid’s stuck on them.
Just goes to show you, when you circle the wagons on unstable ground, it’s best to stick them together with a thick coat of epoxology.
Gosh, it’s just a great big ol’ co-inky-dink that they all share exactly the same goals, slogans, & philosophy. Weird how they were all just sitting around thinking exactly the same things and targetting exactly the same groups and people. I mean, it’s not like PETA or Greenpeace would ever knowingly hire criminally convicted, violent terrorists to give speeches in schools.
Where does one study epoxology? At gluniversity.
Epoxology: the study of things that are (hockey) sticky.
[snip – thanks – but I don’t want to provide ideas for such behavior – Anthony]
Nick always shows up to use the most miniscule, minute, often irrelevant detail as a defense for the indefensible. I guess his microsope isn’t powerful to find a nit to pick on this subject.
I would think ‘Epoxology’ would be the science of splicing heterogeneous datasets.
…such as required in making hockey sticks.
To summarize:
New branch of science.
The dawning of the ‘Age of Resinnobleness.
Epoxology: the science of sticking (permanently) to an untenable position – A quik-set epoxy position – a product of the tribalism – Having one’s feet so firmly set in a permanent position
An ideal permanent inflexible un movable position fixer.
Stronger than the strongest Yamal glue or The Glieck Stick,a permanent bonding agent will fix a decline permanently
So many applications, so little time. In this case, I think we can say, “The science is set”.
Available at your local Gluniversity Climate Dept.
LOL
Time to get MI6 involved:
The names Bond… Permanent Bond
A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has claimed responsibility for the non-fatal shooting of a nuclear-engineering executive
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…if they had been a better shot……………..
[snip – better left unsaid here, but thanks – Anthony]