"The mass crushes out the insight and reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily leads to doctrinaire and authoritarian tyranny if ever the constitutional State should succumb to a fit of weakness. "Rational … [Read more...] about Open Thread
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Who’s going to be sacked for making-up global warming at Rutherglen? Part 2.
THE Bureau of Meteorology has spent several weeks looking for documentation to support its recent claim that, contrary to what is written in its published station catalogue, the weather station at Rutherglen was once moved. The Bureau hasn’t been … [Read more...] about Who’s going to be sacked for making-up global warming at Rutherglen? Part 2.
Homogenisation of Williamtown temperatures, draws attention to hot Newcastle in 1878
WINSTON Churchill famously said that, democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. Indeed when everyone has the opportunity to have a say it can be difficult to keep everyone marching together in the same direction, at the … [Read more...] about Homogenisation of Williamtown temperatures, draws attention to hot Newcastle in 1878
Bureau Caught in Own Tangled Web of Homogenisation
THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology now acknowledge that they change the temperatures at most, if not all, the weather stations that make-up the official station network from which national temperature trends are calculated. Indeed, earlier in the … [Read more...] about Bureau Caught in Own Tangled Web of Homogenisation
Newspapers as the guardians of hot history
OLD newspapers hold a lot of information, some of it very valuable. I’m not only referring to last week’s The Land, but clippings that date back to editions published one hundred or more years ago. For example, in the Sydney Morning Herald on … [Read more...] about Newspapers as the guardians of hot history
Open Thread
Some things worth remembering … We are persuaded not by truth, but by fidelity to evidence and context. It is important to understand the difference between propaganda and information. Objectivity is a research method, not a philosophy. … [Read more...] about Open Thread
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
