Category Archives: Science

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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Hermes delivery on time – DHL late

Posted on 12/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

I saw the planet Mercury for the first time in my life yesterday. Missing it for nearly 6 decades is really sheer laziness, as it’s in plain sight, close to the sun, if you look at the right time, as the ancients well knew.

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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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How the seal got his genes

Posted on 01/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

The atlantic grey seal is the commoner of Britain’s two seal species: we have 40% of the world population. Not only is it a wonderful animal, but something of a conservation success story, the population having escalated after protective legislation in 1914 from just 500 to 120,000.

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Woke awareness solves environmental crisis at a stroke

Posted on 29/10/2019 by Jon Garvey
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Daytrippers, demons or dolphins?

Posted on 25/10/2019 by Jon Garvey

Back in 2015 I confessed to an unhealthy obsession with UFOs in my early years. I regaled my friends with the exploits of George Adamski, and even persuaded my Latin teacher to have the class translate an allegedly mediaeval UFO report. Even now I still remember the Dewey Decimal code for the relevant section of our public library (629.1388).

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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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The population prediction bombs out

Posted on 07/10/2019 by Jon Garvey

One of the earliest of the continuous stream of apocalyptic “scientific” prophecies that has culminated in 2030 and All That was Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb of 1968.

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Scientific consensus

Posted on 30/09/2019 by Jon Garvey

From Sir Robert Ball, A Primer of Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1912:

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