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Sharp rise in Arctic temperatures now inevitable – UN

Surface Detail said:
It is true that, on occasion, self-educated amateurs have made findings that, after further investigation, have transpired to be important discoveries. However, this is very much the exception, and it would be a logical fallacy to deduce from this that every crackpot theory made by people with no expertise in a field should be taken seriously!
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“Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously these are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
 
longview said:
You cannot even complete the sentence.
On 6 January 1912 he publicized his first thoughts about continental drift in a lecture at a session of the Geologischen Vereinigung at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main and in three articles in the journal Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen"
not thoughts but lectures and publications.
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He's not good at this. He made an uninformed hash of a discussion of Einstein's education too.
 
longview said:
You cannot even complete the sentence.
On 6 January 1912 he publicized his first thoughts about continental drift in a lecture at a session of the Geologischen Vereinigung at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main and in three articles in the journal Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen"
not thoughts but lectures and publications.
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So what research did he do to prove this?

The answer is... he didn’t.

But I do understand why you guys like to champion people who come up with ideas that are contrary to established science but don’t put my work into showing their hypothesis is true, and don’t have solid evidence for it.

It’s what you do every day here.
 
Threegoofs said:
So what research did he do to prove this?

The answer is... he didn’t.

But I do understand why you guys like to champion people who come up with ideas that are contrary to established science but don’t put my work into showing their hypothesis is true, and don’t have solid evidence for it.

It’s what you do every day here.
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I think you need to rewrite that.
 
Jack Hays said:
“Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously these are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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If you think Thomas Kuhn was saying that we should take every crackpot, unevidenced theory seriously, then you have seriously misunderstood his work.
 
Threegoofs said:
So what research did he do to prove this?

The answer is... he didn’t.

But I do understand why you guys like to champion people who come up with ideas that are contrary to established science but don’t put my work into showing their hypothesis is true, and don’t have solid evidence for it.

It’s what you do every day here.
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What research did you do to prove he is wrong?
 
Threegoofs said:
Who?

What?

Was this not clear?
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But I do understand why you guys like to champion people who come up with ideas that are contrary to established science but don’t put my work into showing their hypothesis is true, and don’t have solid evidence for it.
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You have never done any work in science.
 
Tim the plumber said:
You have never done any work in science.
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Typo. Should be *any*.

And I’ll let my employer know you don’t think I do any work in science. They’ll be quite surprised, but they may need some faucets replaced in one of the UK labs.
 
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