Showing posts with label facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facts. Show all posts
Monday, 30 December 2024

The stories we tell….

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My reading project for 2025 is N. T. Wright’s “Christian Origins and the Question of God”. But because I managed to finish my 2024 project (...
Saturday, 15 August 2020

Life in the Pandemic X: Exacerbating uncertainty

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 Many things in life are uncertain (apart from death and taxes obviously). And many things are uncertain in science. Indeed identifying, con...
Sunday, 26 January 2020

Faith in aliens….

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I am not a famous ex-anything.   I’m not an ex-premier league footballer making even more of my millions. I’m not an ex-MP or ex-minister ...
Saturday, 1 June 2019

Frankly Franklin……

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There is a (largely) unspoken rule that insists there are two topics of conversation that are inappropriate for polite after-dinner conver...
Saturday, 31 March 2018

Easter Reflections I

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I came across an article recently that opened with the following statement:   Perhaps the most boring question one can ever direct at a re...
Saturday, 17 March 2018

Death of an expert

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A few days ago, a remarkable human being left this life. Professor Stephen Hawking, one of Newton’s successors as the Lucasian Professor a...
Saturday, 16 December 2017

On understanding pencils…..

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Consider the humble pencil. For those poor souls born in the internet age who may not be familiar with them, the pencil is a wooden cyli...
Saturday, 3 June 2017

Of peacock tears, cows and global warming

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First of all, a potential fake news alert. A story concerning retiring judge Mahesh Chandra Sharma of the Rajasthan State High Court wen...
Saturday, 11 March 2017

Alt-facts, fake news and agnotology for beginners

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I suppose like many “experts” and not a few scientists, I’ve been troubled by the apparently recent rise of alternative facts, fake news and...
Saturday, 18 February 2017

A bit of Trumpian perspective

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Pundits have been having a bad time. They've been badly beaten up by the people. It’s been a bad time for experts too. Ignored and even ...
Sunday, 11 September 2016

When the facts change….

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Over time, people change. Over time their ideas change. There are probably few of us who think the same in our 50’s as we did in our 20’...
Saturday, 2 July 2016

It’s (not just) about the facts, stupid

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James Carville, the architect of Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential run, gets the credit (blame?) for coming up with the phrase...