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Five characteristics of science denial

21 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmists, conjecture and reputation, cranks, philosophy of science, Quacks

Karl Popper on the role of consensus in science

13 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: argument from authority, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, logical fallacies, philosophy of science, philosophy of the social sciences, sociology of science

The logical fallacy of special pleading

01 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, logical fallacies, philosophy of science

A handy guide to irrational nonsense

28 Sep 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, liberalism Tags: cognitive psychology, logical fallacies, philosophy of science, quackery, rational rationality

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Settled science part 1: Is science ever actually settled?

17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and ref patient, global warming, methodology of economics, philosophy of science, philosophy of social sciences

The Logic of Science

We are constantly told that “everyone has a right to their opinion” and “there are two sides to every story.” Our entire news system is predicated on the notion that we need to give fair time to both sides of every situation. The problem with this type of thinking is that it leads to the misconception that both sides are equally valid, or, at the very least, that there must be some truth to both sides, but in many cases, only one side has any merit. In other words, it’s often not opinion #1 vs. opinion #2, rather, it is fact vs. fiction. One “side” is reality, while the other “side” is a fairy tail. For example, if you want to say that the island of Jamaica is being carried around on the back of giant sea turtle, that’s not your opinion, you’re just wrong. There wouldn’t be two legitimate…

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‘Climate culture’ versus ‘knowing disbelief’

15 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate change, conjecture and refutation, global warming, philosophy of science, political psychology

Climate culture versus knowing disbelief.

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Eight intellectual traits

09 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in liberalism Tags: economics of personality traits, personality psychology, philosophy of science, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science

The structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

07 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in liberalism Tags: economics of science, philosophy of science, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, Thomas Kuhn

Levels of proof

05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science

The evolution of the scientific method in climate science

03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, environmental economics, global warming, rentseeking Tags: academic bias, climate alarmism, global warming, green rent seeking, philosophy of science, publish or perish, scientific fraud

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