It's Not Round!

[onefixedstar]

A friend told me a few months ago that I'd really like Skeptic; I begin to think he's right.

The IR theory

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[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

Skeptic is a wonderful magazine (and hard to get hold of over here!). Except...

A lot of modern "skeptics" are very cruel, morally supperior, intellectually vain and sometimes just plain wrong. In this catorgory I place such lumminaries of the "movement" such as James "the Amazing" Randi, Richard Dawkins and Dr James Alcock (who just seems to have a paranoid fear of Religion in all it's forms). These people ethier mis-understand science as much as there opponents do (the most pointless fist fight in the world? Flat earthers V Hollow earthers!), patronise or fail to understand that just because someone is religious it dosn't mean they are unaware of science. Well they seem that way to me.

My idea of a good skeptic is the late Carl Sagan. His book The Demon Haunted World is to my mind the most wonderful tome ever written on popular science, what science is and is not and (importantly) it's limits. He had a degree of compassion, patience and tolerance his rather fanatical colleagues seemed to lack.

I stop myself here because I'll rant. It's just one of those areas I feel strongly about.