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Quote of the Day: Ivar Giaever

Friday, 16 September 2011 13:11 pm · 3 comments

by Simon

Quote of the Day

From an email exchange following the Nobel prize-winning physicist's resignation from the American Physical Society because of its blind embracing of the global warming faith:

"In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?" 

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Tagged as: integrity of science, QOTD

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Baldrick September 16, 2011 at 1:35 pm

How can anyone seriously use the word ‘incontrovertible’ as a scientific term, as in, “the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible”, by the American Physical Society.

Incontrovertible is a non-scientific term. The very nature of science means that nothing is incontrovertible. Everything should be challenged. To say otherwise is blind acceptance that everything we know is a fact and we would never sail to the end of the Earth for fear of falling off the edge!

bevan pidgeon September 16, 2011 at 3:43 pm

carefull there baldrick ,with falling of the edge of the earth don`t you know it was once concensus that the world was flat?

Baldrick September 16, 2011 at 5:20 pm

So true Bevan and luckily today we still have some scientists, like Ivar Giaever who say no to the incontrovertible.

Just like a fellow scientist said many years ago against the consensus, ‘Hang on a minute, this theory of Phlogiston is bollocks’ and proved it so. Unless of course they worked for the American Physical Society where everything relating to global warming is settled.

Bollocks!

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