I believe theories such as General Relativity and Evolution through Natural Selection to be valid theories because they make multiple novel predictions which have turned out to be correct. I do not believe current climate "science" to be a valid theory, as it has not demonstrated any predictive power. In this sense it is akin to Astrology; I don't have to understand the theory behind Astrology to know that it is false theory; I just have to note that Astrology is very poor at predicting the future, which is the acid test for truth in science.

wow hes totally right, Climate Science really is exactly like Astrology. in that while i dont necessarily "believe" in it, i do read its daily predictions, subtly alter my decisions based on its esoteric mysteries, and use it to pick up liberal women from bars

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

i don't know much 'bout philosophy of science all i knows is i keep hearing dire warnings from Big Climate and they keep not coming true

http://www.skepticalscience.com/contary-to-contrarians-ipcc-temp-projections-accurate.html

Lessons posted:

admit it IWC, the only reason you're skeptical about global warming is you think they're gonna raise the gas tax, which will really put a damper on your habit of huffing petrol like a scuzzy bogan

please don't be racist

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Squalid posted:

Lol that website outputs pre-crafted refutations in your choice of third or 9th grade english for every argument you can fish out of the cesspit of the the rightwing blogosphere. Handy!

hahaha it has 'models are unreliable' listed as a 'myth'. How fucking far down the rabbit hole are you people if you honestly believe computers can predict the future

go back to reddit

you just posted a comment on the last page claiming that the only REAL science is science that makes predictions about the future

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What is anime?

Keven posted:

Petition to ifap Trig Lessons till such time as he no longer hsa an anime avatar

And you

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

http://blogs.news.com.au/images/uploads/eric_thumb.pngtruly pathetic

i saw that article and immediately thought of you

ilmdge posted:

He came as the Prince of Tennis, but he left...as the King of Tennis.

man they caught that Silk Road guy from a post he made with his real email once 5 years ago. I'm fucked once the revolution starts

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

oh hey it turns out all those apocalyptic warnings were wrong



don't hold your breath waiting for any accountability from these hysterical frauds

That doesn't even say those are unlikely

Science magazine wanted to figure out just how legitimate open-access, peer-reviewed journals are. So, it set out to dupe them with a completely fake study…

More than half of the journals John Bohannon submitted his paper about the fictitious, anticancer properties identified in a lichen compound were accepted for publication.

The first and easiest clue that could have been picked out by the journals was that the study’s author, Ocorrafoo Cobange, does not exist as a real person, nor does his research institute, the Wassee Institute of Medicine.

But beyond that, Bohannon wrote in Science that “any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to understand a basic data plot should have spotted the paper’s short-comings immediately."…

The experiment was testing so-called “open-access” journals — those that are not subscription based…

Of the 304 submissions of the fake study during a 10-month timeframe (only 255 submitted received some sort of response from editors) 157 seemed to miss the study’s “fatal flaws"… Of the 106 submissions that did undergo review, only 36 recognized the scientific problems with the study. Sixteen publications, even with “damning reviews,” still accepted the paper.

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Wow, 'peer review' is garbage? what a surprise /sarcasm

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/04/sting-operation-the-stunning-percentage-of-science-journals-that-accepted-a-completely-bogus-study/

Science magazine wanted to figure out just how legitimate open-access, peer-reviewed journals are. So, it set out to dupe them with a completely fake study…

More than half of the journals John Bohannon submitted his paper about the fictitious, anticancer properties identified in a lichen compound were accepted for publication.

The first and easiest clue that could have been picked out by the journals was that the study’s author, Ocorrafoo Cobange, does not exist as a real person, nor does his research institute, the Wassee Institute of Medicine.

But beyond that, Bohannon wrote in Science that “any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to understand a basic data plot should have spotted the paper’s short-comings immediately."…

The experiment was testing so-called “open-access” journals — those that are not subscription based…

Of the 304 submissions of the fake study during a 10-month timeframe (only 255 submitted received some sort of response from editors) 157 seemed to miss the study’s “fatal flaws"… Of the 106 submissions that did undergo review, only 36 recognized the scientific problems with the study. Sixteen publications, even with “damning reviews,” still accepted the paper.

more like queer review

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Wow, 'peer review' is garbage? what a surprise /sarcasm

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/04/sting-operation-the-stunning-percentage-of-science-journals-that-accepted-a-completely-bogus-study/

Science magazine wanted to figure out just how legitimate open-access, peer-reviewed journals are. So, it set out to dupe them with a completely fake study…

More than half of the journals John Bohannon submitted his paper about the fictitious, anticancer properties identified in a lichen compound were accepted for publication.

The first and easiest clue that could have been picked out by the journals was that the study’s author, Ocorrafoo Cobange, does not exist as a real person, nor does his research institute, the Wassee Institute of Medicine.

But beyond that, Bohannon wrote in Science that “any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to understand a basic data plot should have spotted the paper’s short-comings immediately."…

The experiment was testing so-called “open-access” journals — those that are not subscription based…

Of the 304 submissions of the fake study during a 10-month timeframe (only 255 submitted received some sort of response from editors) 157 seemed to miss the study’s “fatal flaws"… Of the 106 submissions that did undergo review, only 36 recognized the scientific problems with the study. Sixteen publications, even with “damning reviews,” still accepted the paper.

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