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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 153559 Gender:	Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS Reply #30 - Sep 22^nd, 2020 at 11:55am
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AiA Gold Member Offline Posts: 18405 Gender:	Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS Reply #31 - Sep 25^th, 2020 at 9:43am
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Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS
Reply #32 - Sep 25^th, 2020 at 11:23am

AiA wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 9:43am:

Amusing. But science doesn't know as much and with as much certainty as its political exploiters pretend.

Look back at the COVID predictions around Feb/March. Almost all were wildly exaggerated.
Climate catastrophizing ditto. Nothing ever comes to pass of those wild prognostications. They just frighten the Greta Thunbergs
2KY?
Medical science history is awash with blunders and about-faces. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders invents illnesses every few years and makes others simply disappear, often as a result of changes in the political wind.

What is common to these cases? Modeling (ie lots of assumptions) and statistics (ie creative classifications and accounting). Not a lot of people argue with solid experimental scientific evidence. All the most heated arguments are about modelling and stats: covid and climate (and now, how to classify terrorism and what the difference between left, right and unaffiliated, peaceful, largely peaceful and violent, organosed or just loosely organised and so on).

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Ajax Gold Member Offline CO2 has never controlled temperature on Earth Posts: 11067 Australia Gender:	Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS Reply #33 - Sep 25^th, 2020 at 1:21pm Science and politics don't mix. When you do mix them you end up with an abomination. A science magazine that commentates on politics is no longer a science magazine.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS Reply #34 - Sep 25^th, 2020 at 4:24pm If Trump didn’t talk 100% bovine excrement SA would not have had to.
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21058 Gender:	Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS Reply #35 - Sep 25^th, 2020 at 6:30pm Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 4:24pm: If Trump didn’t talk 100% bovine excrement SA would not have had to. So you admit SA is writing crap.
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Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS
Reply #36 - Sep 25^th, 2020 at 9:40pm

Frank wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 11:23am:

AiA wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 9:43am:

Amusing. But science doesn't know as much and with as much certainty as its political exploiters pretend.

Look back at the COVID predictions around Feb/March. Almost all were wildly exaggerated.
Climate catastrophizing ditto. Nothing ever comes to pass of those wild prognostications. They just frighten the Greta Thunbergs
2KY?
Medical science history is awash with blunders and about-faces. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders invents illnesses every few years and makes others simply disappear, often as a result of changes in the political wind.

What is common to these cases? Modeling (ie lots of assumptions) and statistics (ie creative classifications and accounting). Not a lot of people argue with solid experimental scientific evidence. All the most heated arguments are about modelling and stats: covid and climate (and now, how to classify terrorism and what the difference between left, right and unaffiliated, peaceful, largely peaceful and violent, organosed or just loosely organised and so on).

Another twat who confuses religion and science ^^^

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21058 Gender:	Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS Reply #37 - Sep 25^th, 2020 at 10:29pm AiA wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 9:40pm: Another twat who confuses religion and science ^^^ Nope. That's the CAGW'ers.
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Grappler Racist Filth Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 90331 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS Reply #38 - Sep 27^th, 2020 at 6:59pm
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Re: Scientific American Magazine: A FIRST IN 175 YEARS
Reply #39 - Sep 27^th, 2020 at 7:50pm

8AiA wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 9:40pm:

Frank wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 11:23am:

AiA wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 9:43am:

Amusing. But science doesn't know as much and with as much certainty as its political exploiters pretend.

Look back at the COVID predictions around Feb/March. Almost all were wildly exaggerated.
Climate catastrophizing ditto. Nothing ever comes to pass of those wild prognostications. They just frighten the Greta Thunbergs
2KY?
Medical science history is awash with blunders and about-faces. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders invents illnesses every few years and makes others simply disappear, often as a result of changes in the political wind.

What is common to these cases? Modeling (ie lots of assumptions) and statistics (ie creative classifications and accounting). Not a lot of people argue with solid experimental scientific evidence. All the most heated arguments are about modelling and stats: covid and climate (and now, how to classify terrorism and what the difference between left, right and unaffiliated, peaceful, largely peaceful and violent, organosed or just loosely organised and so on).

Another twat who confuses religion and science ^^^

How so?

In your own words.

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