Category Archives: Pseudoscience

FAIL Better

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Willard

Recently AT reminded us of FLICC, a taxonomy of contrarian tactics introduced in 2007 by MarkH. His bro’s Deck still shines. As a first post of a science blog, it does the job. As a permanent classifier, it deserves some … Continue reading →

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Decoding the Gurus

Posted on December 10, 2021 by ...and Then There's Physics

Since I haven’t had much to write about, I thought I would briefly highlight a podcast that I’ve really enjoyed listening to. It’s called Decoding the Gurus, and is run by Chris Kavanagh, an anthropologist, and Matt Browne, a psychologist. … Continue reading →

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Science communication

Posted on October 12, 2021 by ...and Then There's Physics

I listened to one of Andy Revkin’s Twitter broadcasts with Randy Olson which discussed if science communication was worse now than it was 100 years ago. I’ve actually read most of Randy Olson’s book, where he introduces his 3-step model … Continue reading →

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Mind Your Units

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Willard

With both sadness and joy I must report that the Sky Dragons {1} invaded Roy’s. Joy, because I’m having fun. As an editor friend observed (pers. corr.): this place looks like the perfect Thunderdome for you. She’s not wrong. To … Continue reading →

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Anti-Virus

Posted on January 30, 2021 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s a new site called Anti-Virus: The Covid-19 FAQ. It’s a little like Skeptical Science, with articles that respond to common arguments made by Covid Sceptics (what Skeptical Science would call Climate Myths). On a related note, I have been … Continue reading →

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Propagation of nonsense

Posted on September 8, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

A couple of years ago, I had a guest post about Pat Frank’s suggestion that the propagation of errors invalidate climate model projections.. The guest post was mainy highlighting a very nice video that Patrick Brown had produced so as … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Pseudoscience, The philosophy of science, Watts Up With That | Tagged , , , , , | 51 Comments

A little knowledge

Posted on August 7, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

There is apparently a paper from a couple of years ago that is currently doing the rounds and that argues that the Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law Points to a Very Low Climate Sensitivity. The suggestion is … Continue reading →

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Nature Scientific Reports

Posted on July 7, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

Correction – 07/07/2019: I’ve been informed that the journal title is actually Scientific Reports, not Nature Scientific Reports. I’ve edited the text, but not the title. Michael Brown made me aware of a new paper in Scientific Reports by Valentina … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Pseudoscience, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , | 274 Comments

If it seems obvious, it probably isn’t

Posted on May 13, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s an interesting paper that someone (I forget who) highlighted on Twitter. It’a about when science becomes too easy. The basic idea is that there are pitfalls to popularising scientific information. Compared to experts, laypeople have not undergone any specialized … Continue reading →

Posted in Pseudoscience, Research, Science, Scientists, Sound Science (tm), The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , | 44 Comments

Early 20th century warming

Posted on January 26, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

I’ve noticed that Judith Curry is discussing the early twentieth century warming. The idea is that there was a period of warming during the early twentieth century that was similar to the warming we’ve experienced since the second half of … Continue reading →

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