Category Archives: Academia

Phases of a public scare

Posted on 10 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

1. Discovery Discovering of a believable threat. In 1910 scientists discovered that Halley’s Coment contained significant levels of cyanide. Or they “discover” that bird flu (like all flu) has caused deaths. The millennium bug is “discovered” as a story which … Continue reading →

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Bush & Blair lied about WMD so Lewandowsky lied about skeptics: the motivated lies & attacks intended to discredit honest people.

Posted on 6 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Lewandowsky is notorious within Skeptic circles. Unlike others who naivety end up insulting skeptics, Lewandowsky’s attacks are different. Because unlike others who end up attacking skeptics through ignorance, Lewandowsky’s attacks appear to be directed or motivated in a calculated manner … Continue reading →

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Does internet scrutiny improve academia?

Posted on 23 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

For much of the last decade as the internet allowed people outside universities to not only have access to the same data but to comment on what academia was doing and even propose their own ideas. Personally, that process has … Continue reading →

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The Decline and Fall of the British University

Posted on 21 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I found this at: Here The email given has bounced so I publishing it without permission. The goal of widening access to education is a noble one and very much in line with the motivations of the post-war British governments. … Continue reading →

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Why do academics get involved with policy?

Posted on 8 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I was reading an article and came across this: Sid Richardson College senior Maddie Camp said she thinks it is important to examine skeptics’ viewpoints to make progress on climate policy. Why is this academic getting involved with policy at … Continue reading →

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A view inside the public sector academic mind

Posted on 8 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

For all Tolkein’s good points, he like so many of his generation of public-sector academics shared a hatred of industry. And this is easy to see in his portrayal of “Mordor” above. Compare that to the typical portrayal of the … Continue reading →

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Review of the state of Climate "Science"

Posted on 5 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Even after all these years, the academics who work on climate, still have no idea about natural variation. They are still looking to things that are clearly part of natural vartiation and saying “look its now warmer than it has … Continue reading →

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Scientists and sceptics suspend hostilities? NO!

Posted on 3 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Because scientists and sceptics were never  at war! We just wanted the academics who were not working to the standards of science to either start working to those standards or stop calling what they did science. That wasn’t a big … Continue reading →

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What Now, do we shake hands?

Posted on 3 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

‘these professors at the University of California, San Diego say environmentalists need to stop pitching or trying to persuade people of global warming by focusing on the temperature of the earth, ’cause it isn’t rising.  Temperatures aren’t going up.  They … Continue reading →

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Celtic and Global warming: How can educated people be so stupid?

Posted on 3 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

When I went to University to do Physics I knew that physics was unlikely to be a career in its own right, but instead it was a means of problem analysis that was applicable to many areas of life. It … Continue reading →

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