Are you enjoying our ongoing series (here and here) of sneak-peek leaks from this year’s academic überconvention, the Vienna Circle Institute’s 2018 Konferenz für die Kommunikation des Konsenses der Wissenschaft des Wissenschaftliches Konsenses, which is German for VienCircSciConCommConCon2018, which is English for BiMonSciFiCon, which is German for WienerSchaft ’18?* Here are some more highlights … Continue reading
A certain Pope once said that “the proper study of mankind is man.” When I first heard this, in my late teens, it made more sense to me than all the other Papal bull combined into a malodorous pyramid. Now I knew what I had to enrol in at university: the science of the … Continue reading
It’s a question worth asking today, with the sad news of Stephen Hawking’s death. The celebrated cosmologist was only 76, which suggests his life was cut short by complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS]. By all accounts, Hawking was a climate alarmist—which is hardly a crime, let alone if you’re too busy doing real science … Continue reading
Time to excavate your SkepticalScience.com bookmark! An exciting new ‘guest debunk’ by the Harvard scholar Naomi Oreskes examines the popular misconception that “[s]cientists in the 1990s and 2000s said the global atmosphere would heat up.” Spoiler alert: her analysis concludes that the myth is not, in fact, true. On the contrary—it’s flawed. We caught up with … Continue reading
I’m sure you’ve heard of Poe’s Law. And if you’re anything like me, you’ve got a little pedant inside you who waggles an index finger every time, like clockwork, and tuts: teeeeechnically, Brad, it’s more of a proverb than a law… sure, it’s an attractive enough little aphorism, adage or apophthegm, nobody’s disputing … Continue reading
When you think of the world’s premier upcoming symposium for groupscience and the Climate and Consensual Sciences, you probably think of VienCircSciConCommConSciCon2018. Those in the know-who may even think of WienerSchaft18. Whatever you prefer to call it, here are a few more highlights from this year’s program. (Remember, the one I illegally stole / serendipitously … Continue reading
You know the guilty pleasure you get from reading an email that obviously wasn’t meant for you? One of my seemingly-multiple female friends copied me in on one today, and it was very interesting. See, my friend is the Viral Marketing Director for a prominent player in Europe’s educational-tourism industry. Die Deutsche Gruppengedankgruppe GmbH, or … Continue reading
