For what it's worth, the word "kalamata" is Greek for "reed" as in "weak reed arguments", and can also be read to sound like "good eyes" as in "refuses to use his good eyes to see what is".
As for which branch of science is his expertise, I think I can guess, based on his posts here, he must have advanced training, degrees and long experience in the sciences of propaganda and denial.
It could also be "Biblical Science"...
It's also a kind of olive that I'm not too fond off though my sister loves them and insists on serving them at family get-togethers.
As for which branch of science is his expertise, I think I can guess, based on his posts here, he must have advanced training, degrees and long experience in the sciences of propaganda and denial.
He has a talent for cut-and-past though I don't think that's a science.
Joey doesn't understand science, but he can fool the non-scientist with his slick, Lincoln-like rhetoric.
A scientist is obliged to follow the data where ever it leads him. Ideologues, like those in the Evolutionism Orthodoxy that have hijacked science education, reject anything that doesn't fit their ideology. For example, this is the Evolutionary Biologist and devout Marxist, Richard Lewontin of Harvard University:
"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." [Lewontin, Richard C., "Billions and Billions of Demons: Review of Sagan's 'The Demon Haunted World'." New York Review of Books, 1997]
The first highlighted sentence should read,
"We take the side of EVOLUTION in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs."
That is anti-science. Scientists do not take sides; pseudo-scientists do. Scientists simply follow the data.
Mr. Kalamata