tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post115401118859561735..comments2024-02-15T07:19:24.972-05:00Comments on The Daily Doubter: Quote-miningUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-1154306497513758682006-07-30T20:41:00.000-04:002006-07-30T20:41:00.000-04:00You seemed to have missed the admonition I gave pr...You seemed to have missed the admonition I gave previously. What does a debate over whether or not anthropogenic global warming is occurring have to do with the subject of this post?<BR/><BR/>And Dr. Lindzen may disagree with the climate scientists at Real Climate, but in science arguments from authority don't hold much weight. <BR/><BR/>Lindzen disagreeing with RC doesn't change the fact that they do offer answers to the questions you ask. That you don't find the answers compelling, or don't mind that Lindzen's position is not well-supported in the climate literature ... there is nothing I can do about that.Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-1154096893109352902006-07-28T10:28:00.000-04:002006-07-28T10:28:00.000-04:00Everything else aside, you are talking at me, not ...Everything else aside, you are talking at me, not to me. Nothing you just said relates whatsoever to what I wrote.<BR/><BR/>A search at Real Climate would answer any of your questions, however.Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-1154047987995512012006-07-27T20:53:00.000-04:002006-07-27T20:53:00.000-04:00Quote minings is not just an error of methodology....Quote minings is not just an error of methodology. It is an error in moral character.<BR/><BR/>The best we can say of the quote miner is that he is intellectually reckless. Like the person who roars down a road at full speed anxious to get home to watch his television show, he cares nothing about those who might be hurt or killed by his actions. Therefore, he takes no care to prevent the harm that might be done.<BR/><BR/>Those who defend any proposition through "quote mining" are people who do not care about the harms that their fiction may do. They have an objective. They are going to reach it, and they care not who gets hurt.<BR/><BR/>Just as a morally responsible person is a careful driver to prevent doing harm to others, the morally responsible person does not make, and does not repeat, these reckless fictions. Because when people act on fictions, innocent people get hurt -- and some of them die.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-1154020747483293022006-07-27T13:19:00.000-04:002006-07-27T13:19:00.000-04:00And that reminds me of this Fuzzy Memory (excerpte...And that reminds me of this Fuzzy Memory (excerpted)by Jack Handey<BR/><BR/><B>I remember I was hammering on a fence in the backyard when Dad approached. He was carrying a letter or something in his hand, and he looked worried.<BR/><BR/>I continued to hammer as he came toward me. "Son," he said, "why are you hammering on that fence? It already has plenty of nails in it."<BR/><BR/>"Oh, I'm not using nails," I replied. "I'm just hammering." With that, I returned to my hammering.<BR/><BR/>Dad asked me to stop hammering, as he had some news. I did stop hammering, but first I got a couple more hammers in, and this seemed to make Dad mad. <BR/><BR/>"I said, stop hammering!" he yelled.<BR/><BR/>I think he felt bad for yelling at me, especially since it looked like he had bad news. "Look," he said, "you can hammer later, but first--"<BR/><BR/>Well, I didn't even wait to hear the rest. As soon as I heard "You can hammer," that's what I started doing. Hammering away, happy as an old hammer dog.</B>Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-1154015473066091322006-07-27T11:51:00.000-04:002006-07-27T11:51:00.000-04:00Reminds me of that television commercial for Natio...Reminds me of that television commercial for National Insurance where some guy is driving to the instructions of his GPS device. As the device tells him "Turn left.." he immediately turns left, smashing into a restaurant. The device continues to speak "....in 100 feet".gawkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081710140055676484noreply@blogger.com