The suicide of expertise: Glenn Reynolds

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According to Foreign Affairs magazine, Americans reject the advice of experts so as "to insulate their fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong.” That’s in support of a book by Tom Nichols called The Death of Expertise, which essentially advances that thesis.
Well, it’s certainly true that the “experts” don’t have the kind of authority that they possessed in the decade or two following…

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March 23, 2017 at 01:36AM

Coral Davenport And The New York Times Continue Ramping Up Their Climate Fraud

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Last week Coral Davenport and the fake news New York Times wrote a hit piece attacking Scott Pruitt and myself, where she got almost every piece of information wrong about me. This week she is back with some more spectacular climate idiocy. Arctic sea ice extent has more than tripled since September, not dropped. The […]

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March 23, 2017 at 01:34AM

World’s First State Of The Climate Survey Based on Observations Only

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Compiled by Dr Ole Humlum, Professor of Physical Geography at the University Centre in Svalbard (Norway), the new climate survey is in sharp contrast to the habitual alarmism of other reports that are mainly based on computer modelling and climate predictions.

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March 23, 2017 at 01:27AM

LHC: Five new particles hold clues to sub-atomic glue

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The Large Hadron Collider has discovered new sub-atomic particles that could help to explain how the centres of atoms are held together. The particles are all different forms of the so-called Omega-c baryon, whose existence was confirmed in 1994.
Physicists had always believed the various types existed but had not been able to detect them – until now. The discovery will shed light on the…

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March 23, 2017 at 01:19AM