Guest “forty-two” “one-thirty-seven” by David Middleton For those unfamiliar with Douglas Adams, this won’t help… Why the number 137 is one of the greatest mysteries in physics Famous physicists like Richard Feynman…
Tag: Richard Feynman
A view of science worth reflecting upon
After watching the movie “The Challenger Disaster” on the Discovery channel tonight, I thought it would be good for WUWT readers to read Feynman’s famous address. At the end, there…
A question for Oreskes – But what do we mean by consensus?
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Politicians pay for science, but scientists should not be politicians. Consensus is a political concept. Unwisely deployed, it can be damagingly anti-scientific. A…
Monckton: Be skeptical, be very skeptical, of Skeptic magazine’s skepticism of climate skeptics
By Jim Lakely A quarterly magazine called Skeptic published a cover story a few weeks back by Donald Prothero titled “How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human-Caused.” That struck us here…
Friday Funny – expert opinion
While Dr. Richard Feynman famously said: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Josh notes that climatologists do it with crystal balls…
Climate Dogma and the ‘Ignorance of Experts’
Only by embracing skepticism and open discussion can we craft resilient policies – ones that allow the world to flourish without mortgaging the future to a dogmatic march toward energy…