Marc Morano writes:
CBS This Morning featured a futurist who promotes paranormal phenomena like ‘telepathy, telekinesis and mind reading’ as climate expert during its February 13 broadcast. CBS only identified physicist Michio Kaku as a New York City College professor, with no mention of his special abilities. See: CBS Blames Global Warming for Harsh Winter Weather: Prof. Michio Kaku: ‘Excess heat generated by all this warm water is destabilizing this gigantic bucket of cold air….So that’s the irony, that heating could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions’
Kaku’s website (http://mkaku.org/home/) promotes his book: “THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: The scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind.” And his quest to promote: “Telepathy. Telekinesis. Mind reading. Photographing a dream. Uploading memories. Mentally controlled robots.”
Kaku claims all of “these feats” have already been achieved. “These feats, once considered science fiction, have now been achieved in the laboratory, as documented in THE FUTURE OF THE MIND,” Kaku’s website declares.
Kaku notes that his “book goes even further, analyzing when one day we might have a complete map of the brain, or a back up Brain 2.0, which may allow scientists to send consciousness throughout the universe.”
Kaku’s global warming comments were not well received by the scientific community:
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue of Weather Bell tweeted on Kaku: He’s ‘like a festering wound on field of meteorology, Michio Kaku says ‘we think’ harsh winter is due to global warming,” Maue wrote.
“Kaku has no effing clue what he is talking about – ‘unstable jet stream’ — huh? How could someone supposedly so learned sound so doltish?,” Maue asked on Feburary 13, 2014.
“Must apologize to Bill Nye — he is now number 2 most egregious butcher of meteorology and climate science. New rankings come out weekly,” Maue quipped.
Houston Chronicle climate reporter Eric Berger joined in the Kaku bashing, noting Kaku is “a physicist (and not a well-regarded one among his peers) not an atmospheric scientist.”
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This is just one of many research projects by accredited institutions into powers of the mind.
You cant just discount a phenomena because you dont understand the mechanism. The human brain has quantum tunneling features that can possibly use entanglement to communicate over distances. People are doing real science in this field even though you may not agree with the premise..
That is different than Kaku is koookoo..
“At Princeton university Dr Robert G. Jahn, now retired, spent 25 years amassing an enormous database of empirical data on psychokinesis that clearly suggests the phenomena is very much a reality. He founded the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) group which undertook countless experiments under controlled, scientific conditions to measure the effect of the power of the human mind using a range of instruments. “
Well I have tried to listen to the “String” theories from all of the protagonists of same. The idea that vibrating “strings” are fundamental just grips me. Something that “wiggles, must be built from smaller moveable parts; so just WHAT are they ? So for me, it is nyet on strings.
And I believe that anything and everything that is observable, by any means; no matter how weird or strange, is part of THE UNIVERSE. And anything that is NOT observable, by ANY MEANS real or imagined, is NOT a part of SCIENCE.
So nyet on parallel universes too.
But then I don’t have time for everything.
I actually have been ready Kaku’s mind. To quote his thinking “…$,$$$,$$$,$$$.$$ …”
…reading his mind… silly fingers.
“The issue is that he is a great THEORETICIAN, not meteorologist or geologist.”
No, the issue is that a major network provided a platform for a lunatic to spout gibberish, thereby giving false information to hundreds of thousands of people on an important issue of the day.
He’s a regular on Ancient Aliens on the History Channel. You KNOW they are desperate when they have to pretend he’s a climate scientist or expert on climate.
CBS always puts on the most bizarre people and ideas in relation to AGW. Last year they had a lead story where the simple ice melt in the arctic, which was actually mild compared with most other years, was proof of global warming. CBS needs a new Science chief.
Given this is clearly the Friday humor page:
” … We thought,” he said, “that you were meant to be telling the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth.” “Oh, that,” said Prak. “Yeah. I was. I finished. There’s not nearly as much of it as people imagine. … “I thought of writing some of it down, but first I couldn’t find a pencil, and then I thought, why bother? …” – Douglas Adams
Anthony we can always toss his best quote back his way regarding his allegedly proven “wild” ideas and his silly views on climate:
“No theory is carved in stone. Science is merciless when it comes to testing all theories over and over, at any time, in any place. Unlike religion or politics, science is ultimately decided by experiments, done repeatedly in every form. There are no sacred cows. In science, 100 authorities count for nothing. Experiment counts for everything.” – Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at City College of New York
The question is: which of Michio’s words will Kaku have to eat? This quote? His climate views? His wild allegedly proven ideas?
The only one that makes any sense is this above quote. Start eating Michio Kaku.
Helen and Zoot-
I worry about random people who suddenly show up and use guilt trip or strawman comments in what appears to be thinly veiled attempts to stifle free speech in a public forum.
CBS “tossed the ball” so to speak to this guy on behalf of Team Climate and it’s perfectly reasonable to point out that he’s a really strange choice for a great player in this particular game. It’s also reasonable to point out that your opinion(s) are no more valid than anyone else’s.
KarnakKaku the Great holds an envelope to his forehead…Answer: tell a pathy and tell a kinesis
Question: whom should be told about global warming
I pretty well gave up on Kaku after reading in “Physics of the Impossible” that he believes there problems that can/will be solved by leveraging the power and resources of a galaxy — i.e. he’s a physicist who doesn’t grasp that the energy density of a galaxy makes wind power look like fusion
I only made it through the first chapter of “Physics of the Future” — 20 minutes of my life I will never get back. Fortunately I get them from the library so I wasn’t wasting my money on his “waste of paper” science fiction.
Aphan. I have taken your comment on board. I’ve been posting here over 5 years. I’ve explained many times why i use a nom de plume. My given legal name is Craig Frier.
There is no such thing as free speech on the internet. Not that I object to it. I feel it’s not wise to adopt poor debating tactics when one uses the argument against others that said tactics are poor form.
You seem to misunderstand the meaning of a strawman. Forgive me if I’m wrong.
It’s reasonable to point out that my opinion ( and that of Helen’s but I’m sure she’s a big enough girl to defend herself ) is no less valid than anyone else’s.
And I think it’s also fair to point out that if you came at me with that attitude and argument in person I’d put you on your arse.
Regards
Craig.
From his CBS interview a few years ago…
“WRAGGE: Is this the same weather pattern, though, that’s affecting us that’s affecting other regions around the world? You’ve had problems in Brazil with mud slides, Australia’s going through some weather issues now. Is this the same?
KAKU: Similar. El Nina, cold weather around the equator, is contributing to what’s happening in Australia. And I was in Brazil just two weeks ago, where they had monster mud slides, killed hundreds of people because of flooding. Massive flooding. And it’s summertime now in Brazil.
WRAGGE: In El Nina, what are the patterns here? Is it every couple of years?
KAKU: Yeah, El Nina and the North Atlantic oscillations go back and forth every few years and they last a few months. And so we have both effects helping to bring down cold air from the north, while the Earth itself is heating up, creating more moisture in the Gulf of Mexico. And when the two meet, watch out.”
Yep, climate expert.
Michio Kaku is forever impeached by his stand on the Cassini-Huygens mission RTG’s 238-plutonium fuel. He may not be foolish but his muse certainly is!
Oi, you lot can stop mocking SCIENTISHTS you should be touching your forelock instead ! BBC radio treated us to this on Monday ‘Are We All Scientific Experts Now?’ the new book by Harry Collins (expert in 4 different scientific fields himself) about how the public mistakenly think they can criticise scientists these days
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03trkc1
This dovetails with the administration’s ambitions to use brain scans to determine people’s health, proclivities to violence, supposed “religious centers,” etc. What a coincidence. Is he remote viewing the features of Obamacare that will be claiming to use these technologies? He just happens to be both pushing scientific “frontiers” and amplifying the political objectives of the politicians in neurology and climate science – while also exploiting the anti-rationalist movements and looking like an Einsteinian rock star. Our country has had its share of gurus and this needs to be fully identified and analyzed for what it is. This is manipulative populism, with a political and societal fish hook in the middle of the bait.
The human brain map is a fraud from the outset. While general areas of the brain are used for certain activities, each individual’s brain is organized differently. For example, when a neurosurgeon is performing a craniotomy and removing a tumor from a person’s brain, in order to avoid damaging speech or motor centers, electrical stimulation is used while the patient is conscious. This allows the surgeons to identify those areas in that individual and avoid brain damage. This is necessary because no two people are exactly alike and the brain is highly individualized through upbringing and use. It is well known that an area of the cortex that is not used, such as in the case of a lost hand, is subsumed by other functions. The brain scan science is nothing short of an exercise in modern day phrenology.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=phrenology&FORM=HDRSC2
Famed futurist?
Fame derived from … ??? … self-promotion?
More like devolved from science into fiction and fantasy.
stewgreen says:
February 14, 2014 at 12:42 pm
“BBC radio treated us to this on Monday ‘Are We All Scientific Experts Now?’ the new book by Harry Collins (expert in 4 different scientific fields himself) about how the public mistakenly think they can criticise scientists these days”
Well, after politicians’ and later journalists’ reputation was in the tank, they needed new figures of authority and used scientists – since about “Limits To Growth” where they first had a computer do the talking for them.
Now the reputation of scientists is in the tank as well (so of course the BBC does their bit of protesting). But whom will they use next? Religion again?
(Kaku is a Neo-Sagan; a book selling all round stand in for everything remotely scientific. Can’t stand that type of entrepreneur, to use a polite term. Less vile than Suzuki though.)
Stark Dickflüssig says:
February 14, 2014 at 11:58 am
helen says:
February 14, 2014 at 11:43 am
I too worry at the play the man comments here. Like the other side has been doing for years.
When someone uses their moral/scientific/intellectual credentials to create an air of authority…
When some one uses Argumentum ad Verecundiam (the logical fallacy “Argument from Authority”), it is fair to counter with an ad hominem attack. As the Argument from Authority is essentialy a statment bassed on the person, and attack on the person is a rational counter.
eg. “I am Jeff, therefore I am correct.”..”You may be Jeff, but Jeff is shown to be a lunatic for reason A and B, therefore you may well be wrong”
Kaku just wants to be Carl Sagan and falls short.
This is the comment I posted on Tallbloke’s blog about censorship of the astrophysics journal:
Yes, this was “politically” motivated. Politicians–and most scientists–get their money from taxes. The hope is that alarmism will frighten people into paying more taxes via a new tax called the carbon tax.
The politicians have not benefitted because the public really is tapped out, taxed well beyond the willingness to pay. Wealthy people are leaving high-tax jurisdictions in droves. Worse still, energy sources have been attacked throughout the developed world to a degree that has battered American and European economies. This is why the dollar and Euro are in trouble, and this is why governments are getting so desperate. The solution for the governments is to tell the truth, enhance energy production, reduce tax rates and restore free enterprise.
Science, by which I mean scientist paychecks, however, has profited enormously. America’s National Science Foundation has declared the science settled, and makes it very very very clear in their calls for research that anything alarmist is strongly desired and that alarmist results are far more likely to secure additional funding. Even though the US government is on its knees financially, this nonsense is funded. Alarmism “works” for the “scientific community.”
The actual funding ration is 1000 to 1 in favor of alarmists. “Qui bono?” and “follow the money” are classic ideas when trying to ascertain why something is wrong.
When we can get comprehension of this across to the general public, alarmism will stop and real actual science will be restored.
– See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/14/the-real-motivation-behind-prp-journal-shutdown-exposed-it-challenged-ipcc-science/#comment-918266
I wonder how you can not play the man?
He has a Dr. in front of his name turning science into propaganda thus supporting the Obama policy which will wreck the entire economy.
He’s a snake oil salesman.
You reap what you sow and BS is BS.
There’s none so stupid…
In a post title that asked, “Why does the Seattle Times and other media misinform the public about climate change?” Cliff Mass had a few words about Dr. Kaku and main stream media …
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-does-seattle-times-and-other-media.html