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Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Mockery of Evidence-based Science

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Brilliant article here by John Gibbons in The Times making the same point that I have been making, linking climate change denial with Quackery and other types of pseudoscience. When science is reduced to a game, anyone can play. Scientists say the arctic ice sheet is disappearing; I say they are stuffy old sausages; and [...]

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Oats Update

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

A number of us gathered on the Sheep’s head peninsular last week to visit the oats that have been sown there by local farmers asd part of the Bantry Community  Supported Agriculture project, initiated by John Dolan. The field of  oats looked great and certainly have a great spot overlooking the south coast on the [...]

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At last a Scientific Analysis of Self-help Methods

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Self-help books are big business and the self-help section in many bookstores attract more traffic than any other section. But how much of it really works? All those books from “experts” telling you “this book will change your life” still keep selling even though there is very little evidence any of the advice offered is [...]

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Faith in Transition

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Update: 16/07/09 See Dan Dennett on “Belief in belief” here Updates: I’ve just put a couple of updates for clarification and a couple more links. I’ve marked them in the text. I also want to say, whatever about my concerns regarding the ideology behind Transition, there is heaps of great work being done in the [...]

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Orlov: Only Aliens Can Save us from Collapse

Sunday, July 5, 2009

The view expressed in recently reviewed books like Holmgren’s Energy Scenarios and Chamberlin’s The Transition Timeline is that peak oil will be followed by a long, slow decline- Energy Descent- rather than an abrupt collapse. For an alternative view, Dmitri Orlov, author of the acclaimed Reinventing Collapse puts the case for sudden collapse very well [...]

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