Re: Something for Slowman

Dec 11, 2008 1 Replies

Not wishing to comment on the global climate change here, I just noted that all the links mainly refer to the opinion of the Nobelist Ivar Giaever. It is dangerous to substitute critical argumentation on the actual subject by reliance on opinions of Nobel prize winners. For instance, Giaever's Nobel co-winner Brian Josephson has for years been a strong proponent of parapsychology, and is nowadays not considered very credible within the physics community.



Its good that there are sceptics about the GCC, because the dialog between the opposing views is what makes the scientific progress. But existence of the sceptics is only a starting point, not the proof of validity of the anti-GCC.



Regards, Mikko



You left out his enthusiasm for the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. When he used to trot around Cambridge asking stupid question in linguistics seminars (much to my wife's annoyance) he wore red clothes, as the Maharishi prescribed.

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This episode seems to have been edited out of the Wikipedia biography

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so he may have finally acquired a little common sense.

Perhaps. It is less good that we have a small industry devoted to finding and promoting sceptics without reference to the basis or credibility of their scepticism.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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