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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts

Nobel prize winning physicist Richard P. Feynman famously said that “science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” That might seem like an extraordinary, even borderline insane thing to say. Science is many...

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White privilege and “the music of my race”

The idea of “white privilege” is apparently a key concept in these racially charged times. Much of the credit—or blame—for that goes to Peggy McIntosh, the author of “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”....

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Predictions beyond 2100 are fiction

In my Quilllete article on climate change, I briefly discussed the usefulness—or rather, uselessness—of trying to discover what might happen in hundreds or thousands of years. Those time scales literally do not belong to...

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Wikipedia bites Oreskes in the ***

Naomi Oreskes has an interesting and troubled relationship to the D word (climate change denial). She is known to have claimed that anyone who doesn’t believe “renewable sources can’t meet our energy needs” is...