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Saturday, 19 September 2020

Life in the Pandemic XI: Why science can never be enough.

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In the interests of transparency, I should make clear from the outset that I think science is, without doubt, the best way of obtaining soun...

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...

Friday, 28 February 2020

Don’t be duped (or even gooped….)

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I may have invented a new word. As far as I can tell there is currently no verb “to goop”. However, goop does exist as both a common and pro...

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, 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...

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Paul C. Knox: I'm a Christian, in the Biblical as opposed to the ethnic or generic sense, retired academic scientist, and recently minted theology graduate. The way science and faith interact is of interest to me. You can find our more about my science on my web pages. But here I range far and wide.

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