The Great Academies Of Science Said That Continents Can’t Move

4 Responses to The Great Academies Of Science Said That Continents Can’t Move

1. Mike Davis says:

   August 21, 2011 at 3:34 pm

   The so called great academies of science are the group promoting the current fad. They are political bodies composed of scientists defending their position from radical thought that would advance knowledge if explored!

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2. Gator says:

   August 21, 2011 at 4:23 pm

   “The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
   Stephen Jay Gould

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3. papertiger says:

   August 21, 2011 at 4:28 pm

   Steve,

   You suppose PNAS has been expunged of past bullshit consensus positions?
   If not, a direct quote from the Great Academies would be a nice cherry.

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4. Jim Cole says:

   August 21, 2011 at 4:30 pm

   I just read James L. Powell – “Night Comes to the Cretaceous” (1998).

   It’s an interesting story in its own right about the search for the cause of dinosaur extinction.

   It’s also about the reaction of establishment geology to an “outsider’s” hypothesis that an ET impact (comet, asteroid) caused such environmental calamity that it wiped out 70% of all species.

   Also a great story/lesson on how the scientific method really works and how disputes are properly addressed.

   Steve McIntyre may be remembered as the “Luis and Walter Alvarez” once sanity returns to climate science.

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