"The probably can't get funding from anywhere else because it's accepted beyond any reasonabe [sic] doubt that human activity is causing climate change."
I won't deny human activity has a material effect but I will contest the impact it has on any warming or cooling that might already naturally occur and I definitely don't think the lack of funding has anything to do with science deciding to abandon academic inquiries into the validity of the above theory.
Science and to a larger extent academia have been highly politicized over the last 60 years, ergo we see certain areas of interest abandoned via monetary pressure.
0 votedAugust 9, 20170The scientific community point their gaze where the funding tells them to; in other words science is thoroughly politicized. Unfortunately scientists who decide to question the legitimacy of global warming, find their efforts eventually stunted due to the lack of financial backing and some even face the threat of losing their job.
I thought Mann's Hockey Stick theory had been debunked as pseudoscience but if anything, his narrative seems to be gaining momentum. Global Warming appears to me to be just another tool from the marxist toolbox to weaken western influence. I might be wrong but that's what I think.
0 votedAugust 9, 20170Well I know you stipulated classical but I'm going to punt with a bit of baroque and go with Bach's six cello suites, as they're always a pleasure to listen to.
That said, and I'm jumping around the periods here, Shostakovich's string quartet 8 (Dresden) is probably one of my most favourite pieces.
0 votedJuly 25, 20170Trying not to play devil's advocate but imagine if we standardized William Barnes' poetry, it'd lose the sauce of its brilliance. Some people still think to this day that Johnson's dictionary delivered a coup de grâce to local dialects and their written form.
I don't know enough about this subject myself but I can see how not everyone agrees with a rigid standard due to its detrimental effect on local dialects and changes that occur naturally in languages.
0 votedJuly 16, 20170The Double Slit Experiment, without a doubt. An old clever sausage once told another old clever sausage that "God doesn't play dice" to which the other replied "Stop telling God what to do". I don't think I'll ever understand the basics of quantum mechanics but just getting to grips with the fact that particles can also be waves, according to quanta, is enough for me.
Ah, by the way if anyone on here does have the answer to the Double Slit Experiment, please do tell as there's a nobel prize waiting for you with your name written on it, ha!
0 votedJuly 15, 20170
