Dr. Stephan Lewandowsy’s recent claim that because skeptics and lukewarmers alike ask to see emails, it amounts to conspiracy theory …
So now there’s a conspiracy theory going around that I didn’t contact them.
…has inspired Josh yet again.
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Simon at Australian Climate Madness notes:
You can sense the contempt Lewandowsky holds for those who dare question his methods in the tone employed here. I guess he thought he could brand all sceptics as conspiratorial nut-nut jobs and we’d just quietly slink away and say, “Yeah, you’re right, we are nut-jobs”. And his defence mechanism to this criticism is to resort to childish sarcasm in his responses – as one commenter puts it, how “professorial” is that, professor?
It rather begs the question, what does UWA stand for ?
Particularly when stamped on every sheet of this paper.
On the whole it seems Lewandowski would (as would we all) be well told to read the preface to the Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boye, (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22914/22914-h/22914-h.htm) …
“And indeed, I am not sorry to have this Opportunity of giving an example how to manage even Disputes with Civility; whence perhaps some Readers will be assisted to discern a Difference betwixt Bluntness of speech and Strength of reason, and find that a man may be a Champion for Truth, without being an Enemy to Civility; and may confute an Opinion without railing at Them that hold it; To whom he that desires to convince and not to provoke them, must make some amends by his Civility to their Persons, for his severity to their mistakes; and must say as little else as he can, to displease them, when he says that they are in an error.”
Yoshi Sheva says:
September 8, 2012 at 9:46 pm
The moon landings may have been faked, I don’t know, I have not looked into it. I assume that they were not, but it is not my expertise. Does that make me Skeptical? Or just that I am smart enough to not state categorically that “the moon landings were not faked” when I don’t know anything about it? Does NASA want me to make a religious statement affirming my belief in the moon landings to prove that I am not crazy? Am I disallowed to talk about anything just because I have not researched the moon landings and am ready to state that it happened?
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In case you were serious about the moon landings being faked, here’s a pretty good an simple look at some of the ideas put forth by those who think they were faked. Their ideas don’t hold up.
http://mythbustersresults.com/nasa-moon-landing
oops That’s Robert Boyle, duhh
Seriously – climate alarmists have done enormous damage to the standing of the academic award of PhD – in fact the standing of science in the public perception.
How do some of these people get their PhD’s ? Certainly not for respect for individual, original research.
What’s slipping under the radar while this non-event is up-front?
DaveE.