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Climate Change and Confirmation Bias
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| July 12, 2011
| Ronald Bailey
Posted on 07/16/2011 12:47:20 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: trebb
That isn’t what that sentence actually says.
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posted on
07/16/2011 7:43:24 PM PDT
by
Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
(Using profanity gives people who don't want information from you an excuse not to listen.)
To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
I know what the sentence said and I decided to have some ironic fun with it. Since they brough into question whether scientists were thinking with the rational parts of their brains or with the parts considered their "hearts" (once again, not literal excerpts but easy enough to derive as meaningful inference), it seemed that they were saying that there are "scientists" out there who decide to bypass scientific methodology and who will create results to match their "feelings".
I'm curious - do you believe we need to take serious measures to stop man-caused global climate change?
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posted on
07/17/2011 3:51:33 AM PDT
by
trebb
("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
To: SunkenCiv; Alamo-Girl; Amityschild; AngieGal; AnimalLover; Ann de IL; aposiopetic; aragorn; ...
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posted on
07/17/2011 4:27:21 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: SunkenCiv; geologist; Lazamataz; Alamo-Girl; Amityschild; AngieGal; AnimalLover; Ann de IL; ...
Hmmmmmmmmm
He’s linking a lot of things together . . . plausibly.
Some new puzzle pieces, . . .
Some interesting contentions re Scripture, science, Egyption and other cultures’ records about
Ark of the Covenant
‘monoatomic gold’ etc.
resonating frequencies with DNA . . .
Controlled study . . . fed such monoatomic substances . . . effects immediate and cumulative . . . left and right brains functioned more equally and more in synchrony.
Interesting contentions.
For those with a particular interest in such—it could be a fascinating video.
Actually, the one thing, so far, that I’m certain he’s wrong about—is the bit about us purportedly using a fraction of our brain power. fMRI etc. imaging has shown that’s basically false.
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posted on
07/17/2011 4:56:28 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: SunkenCiv; geologist; Lazamataz; Alamo-Girl; Amityschild; AngieGal; AnimalLover; Ann de IL; ...
Hmmmmmmmmm
He’s linking a lot of things together . . . plausibly.
Some new puzzle pieces, . . .
Some interesting contentions re Scripture, science, Egyption and other cultures’ records about
Ark of the Covenant
‘monoatomic gold’ etc.
resonating frequencies with DNA . . .
Controlled study . . . fed such monoatomic substances . . . effects immediate and cumulative . . . left and right brains functioned more equally and more in synchrony.
Interesting contentions.
At about the mid-point . . . gets into a cotton farmer’s discovery . . . from their poor soils . . . and resulting experimental measures get really interesting with a variety of scientific labs . . .
Some interesting stuff when they came to applying for a patent . . .
For those with a particular interest in such—it could be a fascinating video.
Actually, the one thing, so far, that I’m certain he’s wrong about—is the bit about us purportedly using a fraction of our brain power. fMRI etc. imaging has shown that’s basically false.
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posted on
07/17/2011 5:12:55 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Alamo-Girl; Amityschild; AngieGal; AnimalLover; Ann de IL; aposiopetic; aragorn; auggy; ...
Somehow, posting efforts are not behaving as predicted . . .
The video gets really interesting and very scientific at about the mid-point.
Very very fascinating.
One of the more interesting videos I’ve seen in the last 10-20 years.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2129165010048711403#
Resonances become a very fascinating issue.
Implications for a long list of things including causing the DNA to cure cancer cells.
46
posted on
07/17/2011 5:25:54 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
Laurence Gardner
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark
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posted on
07/17/2011 6:03:44 AM PDT
by
Joya
(Jesus is coming back. Something to look forward to, it is more than enough.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I teach physics at a prep school and tell my kids...
“your local weatherperson can’t predit what’s going to happen 10 miles from here, 10 minutes from now...
and yet using exactly the same instruments and programs, GW “experts” are making predictions for the entire planet decades from now?!?”
They get it.
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posted on
07/17/2011 6:17:22 AM PDT
by
Mrs.Z
To: betty boop
49
posted on
07/17/2011 7:02:01 AM PDT
by
Joya
(Jesus is coming back. Something to look forward to, it is more than enough.)
To: Quix
Actually, the one thing, so far, that Im certain hes wrong aboutis the bit about us purportedly using a fraction of our brain power. fMRI etc. imaging has shown thats basically false. Given most of the contributors to DU, that has some *really* frightening implications.
Cheers!
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:48:55 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Sherman Logan
The whole point of the scientific method is to provide a method whereby confirmation bias can be bypassed and the truth be constantly approximated more closely. Unfortunately, the current peer review process accomplishes almost exactly the opposite.
Cheers!
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:50:49 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Wonder Warthog
The ONLY reason that the "anti-GW" side of the equation has gotten any exposure at all has been due to the availability of the internet and the ability to bypass the people who have foresaken their guardianship, and become "gatekeepers" instead. Or perhaps the informational equivalent of "Maxwell's demon". FREEPMAIL COMING, PLEASE ANSWER.
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posted on
07/17/2011 8:57:48 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Quix
53
posted on
07/17/2011 1:04:05 PM PDT
by
marbren
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
07/17/2011 2:14:12 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: grey_whiskers
Unfortunately, the current peer review process accomplishes almost exactly the opposite.
Absolutely, indeed.
As does, sadly, tenure.
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posted on
07/17/2011 2:15:41 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: marbren
Thanks for your kind reply.
Looks like my prediction that the END TIMES will be demonstrating even the nature of reality turning inside out and upside down . . . is really going to be truer than even I thought.
Interesting.
For those who haven’t watched the video, yet, you can pretty much skip the first half—it’s mostly documenting how such substances were documented to have been known about in several ancient cultures.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2129165010048711403#
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posted on
07/17/2011 2:25:44 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Quix
I did a google search on monatomic gold. Wow. It could even be a cia black ops, ufo, reptilian, mind control, alchemy, even psyc op scam, FBI misinformation or what ever. No way to vett it out. Of interest to you Quix is a spiritualist native American shaman or some such said to beware of it. The speaker in the video died about a year ago.
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posted on
07/17/2011 3:17:05 PM PDT
by
marbren
To: marbren
Sounds to me like there’s plenty to be
WARY OF
AND AWARE OF
in the whole ball park.
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posted on
07/17/2011 3:49:49 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Quix
Orbitally Rearranged Monatomic Elements ORMUS. Farmer David Hudson of Phoenix AZ started this alchemy in the 70’s? Is this just a mind game by the PTB? No google search makes any sense. Now I am finding connections to Free Energy and 911? even ties to the illuminati and Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone.
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posted on
07/17/2011 4:31:10 PM PDT
by
marbren
To: marbren
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posted on
07/17/2011 5:14:31 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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