Category Archives: Politics and sociology

I learn how to manipulate the masses (in 1963)

Posted on 10/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I recently recalled the time, in primary school, when I was able to control the behaviour of my entire school.

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Murdering opinions

Posted on 02/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

Between school and university, I spent several months as a lowly scientific assistant in a government Pest Control Laboratory.

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“Alexa, what is the real cost of your switching on my lights?”

Posted on 25/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

Here’s a link to a stunning diagram, and the must-read accompanying long article, called “The Anatomy of an AI system.” I understand it’s won some kind of award for a design as iconic as, perhaps, the London Underground map of Harry Beck; or perhaps closer still, those diagrams of the cell’s biochemical processes that so impressed me with God’s wisdom during my medical training.

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Press credibility

Posted on 21/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

I don’t think I’ve mentioned that I recently rediscovered a book I’d forgotten I’d read back in 2009, Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. It’s very relevant to my current interest in the propaganda-world in which we now seem to live, and move, and have our being.

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On Phillip Johnson

Posted on 15/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

The recent death of the founder of the Intelligent Design Movement (and seriously accomplished legal scholar), Phillip Johnson, put me in mind of the fact that I once met him, but had never read his work.

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Religion ghosts in refrigerated truck

Posted on 09/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

I’m not sure how internationally this news was reported, but last month’s “illegal immigration tragedy” in Britain was the discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated truck recently arrived in Essex from Zeebrugge. It quickly emerged that, apart from the scale of the incident, it was unusual in that the victims, first identified as coming from China, were all actually from Vietnam.

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Well here’s another clue for you all…

Posted on 05/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

… the walrus was Paul. Back in May I transferred an argument I’d made on a long thread on Peaceful Science to The Hump, after being accused of being a “climate denialist.” I had pointed out the misleading story in a David Attenborough documentary about walruses supposedly driven off cliff-tops by climate change, but actually (according to the investigative work of Susan Crockford) chased off by polar bears, and possibly by the drones being used in filming them.

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Model Land and the real world

Posted on 04/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

There’s a very interesting, partly because simply-written, article by Thompson and Smith on the dangers of making predictions from computer models here.

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Woke awareness solves environmental crisis at a stroke

Posted on 29/10/2019 by Jon Garvey
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Scientific Armageddon eschatology

Posted on 23/10/2019 by Jon Garvey

It’s very instructive, for understanding the times, to realise how before climate change became the stuff of our mass-media sandwich-boards, we were subjected to a whole sequence of apocalyptic predictions of the imminent end of the world. This ought to lead us to focus on who wants to keep prophesying doom, and why, without being too distracted by the actual claims, let alone succumbing to fear.

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