Random Unfinished Thoughts http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:02:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 quote of the day http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20100204-2001/quote-of-the-day-38 http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20100204-2001/quote-of-the-day-38#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:01:54 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1304 “If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. … Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.” – James Madison1

  1. Mr. James Madison, quoted in “Rethinking Power We Give Government: Part 2 of 2″, National Catholic Register Blogs. Viewed 2010-02-04. http://www.ncregister.com/blog/rethinking_the_power_we_give_government_part_2_of_2 ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20100204-2001/quote-of-the-day-38/feed 0 Political Spectrum Quiz http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090829-1709/political-spectrum-quiz http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090829-1709/political-spectrum-quiz#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:09:48 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1300 Political Spectrum Quiz ]]> My Political Views I am a right social moderate. Right: 4.07, Libertarian: 0.03 <br/> Political Spectrum Quiz

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090829-1709/political-spectrum-quiz/feed 0 Obamacare quote of the day http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090730-0727/obamacare-quote-of-the-day http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090730-0727/obamacare-quote-of-the-day#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:27:30 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1297 “Twenty percent of the Netherlands annual deaths are due to doctor intervention.”1

  1. Mr. George J. Marlin. “Obamacare: Will Seniors Have a Duty to Die?” The Catholic Thing. 2009-07-29 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1965&Itemid=2 ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090730-0727/obamacare-quote-of-the-day/feed 0 Quote of the day http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090724-0819/quote-of-the-day-37 http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090724-0819/quote-of-the-day-37#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:19:48 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1294 “Catholic teaching on subsidiarity and the American tradition of federalism – to say nothing of simple realism about what happens when large state bureaucracies get extensive power – should here join hands in proper wariness about the unintended consequences of efforts to do good.” – Robert Royal1

  1. Mr. Robert Royal. “The U.S. Bishops on Health Care” The Catholic Thing. 2009-07-23 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1946&Itemid=2 ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090724-0819/quote-of-the-day-37/feed 0 Harry Potter (SPOILERS) http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090718-2142/harry-potter-spoilers http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090718-2142/harry-potter-spoilers#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:42:12 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1292 The most recent movie, #6, was mostly decent I think, though I would have included the battle at the end rather than the triumphant march out of the castle, and burning the Burrow was rather unnecessary.

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090718-2142/harry-potter-spoilers/feed 0 WebWord! http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090714-0812/webword http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090714-0812/webword#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:12:40 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1290 I read yesterday that Microsoft is planning (releasing?) a web based version of MicroSoft Office. While I neglected to save the link, it really is not important, since this is clearly the latest both in MicroSoft’s ongoing feud with Google, and in their end-goal of subscription based software.

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090714-0812/webword/feed 0 I love fireworks <eom> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090705-0024/i-love-fireworks http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090705-0024/i-love-fireworks#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:24:12 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1286 http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090705-0024/i-love-fireworks/feed 0 Quote of the day http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090529-2156/quote-of-the-day-36 http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090529-2156/quote-of-the-day-36#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 01:56:28 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1281 “Given his selfish nature, man must internalize some reason to behave in pro-social ways. That fact that he falls short of these values does not mean he is a hypocrite. The one who does not even believe what he says is the hypocrite. The one who believes what he says and falls short is merely human.” – Dr. Mike Adams1

  1. Dr. Mike Adams. “The Nature of Conservatism” Townhall.com 2009-05-18 viewed 2009-05-31. http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2009/05/18/the_nature_of_conservatism ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090529-2156/quote-of-the-day-36/feed 0 Confusion http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090503-1705/confusion http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090503-1705/confusion#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 21:05:44 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1029 The Church teaches that life begins at conception. Why then does it surprise good, orthodox priests that a miscarried baby should get a funeral? It bothers me greatly.

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090503-1705/confusion/feed 0 Condom programs increase AIDS http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090416-0646/condom-programs-increase-aids http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090416-0646/condom-programs-increase-aids#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:46:45 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090416-0646/condom-programs-increase-aids The National Catholic Register provides the scientific facts behind the Pope’s recent statement that there is a risk of increasing the problem of AIDS in Africa by distributing condoms.1 This article provides documentation to some of the things I had considered myself when I have found myself defending the Church’s position, as well as bringing up a few things I had not thought of. The long and short of it is, unsurprisingly, that the available empirical research demonstrates that, for one reason or another, you simply cannot remove the risk from “casual sex.” Only “partner reduction” or better yet “abstinence or being mutually faithful with an uninfected partner are the most effective ways of avoiding infection.”2

  1. Ms. Susan E. Wills. “AIDS and Condoms: The Science” The National Catholic Register. April 19-25, 2009 Issue. Viewed 2009-04-16 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/17834/ ↩

  2. Mr.(Dr.?) Daniel Halperin et al. as quoted in “AIDS and Condoms: The Science” by Ms. Susan E. Wills. The National Catholic Register. April 19-25, 2009 Issue. Viewed 2009-04-16 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/17834/ ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090416-0646/condom-programs-increase-aids/feed 0 President Obama and the banks http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090404-1936/president-obama-and-the-banks http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090404-1936/president-obama-and-the-banks#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:36:25 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090404-1936/president-obama-and-the-banks The Wall Street Journal’s Mr. Stuart Varney presents a chilling thought in an alleging that the current administration is refusing to allow an unnamed bank to return funds loaned to it.1 The creditability of the article is reduced by the failure to name the bank or the source. Still, his logic is hard to deny; President Obama is certainly a socialist. It is a very scary thought, and I can but pray that it is not true.

  1. Mr. Stuart Varney. “Barack Obama Maintains Control Over Banks By Refusing to Accept Repayment of TARP Money” WSJ.com Viewed 2009-04-04. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879833094588163.html ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090404-1936/president-obama-and-the-banks/feed 0 Coincidence? http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090331-1954/coincidence http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090331-1954/coincidence#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:54:13 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1018 This1 comes only a week or so after I finished the book, Lord of the World2 that it compares President Obama to. The author writes reflecting much the same line of thought that I had as I wrote it.

Other than the fact that the “planes” in the book flap wings, and the references to esperanto, the book is rather eerie when you think about it having been written in 1906 or so.

  1. Mr. Joseph Wood. “Lord of the World” The Catholic Thing. Viewed 2009-03-31. http://www.thecatholicthing.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1382&Itemid=2 ↩

  2. Mr. Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World. Baronius Press Ltd; 1st Edition edition (September 1, 2006). ISBN-10: 1905574185 http://www.amazon.com/Lord-World-Robert-Hugh-Benson/dp/1905574185/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238546637&sr=8-1 ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090331-1954/coincidence/feed 0 Global Warming “Paused” http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090303-0825/global-warming-paused http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090303-0825/global-warming-paused#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:25:29 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1016 While 2005-2007 were years of record warmth, the overall trend since 2001 averages out to a nice flat line.1 But while we could see this flat line continue, or even drop down into a period of cooling, you should not doubt that global warming is real, and is caused by us. It might take 30 years to show up again, but when it does, even though we do not know why things are cooling now, we are sure the warming will be “explosive.”2

Or, we could accept that what we really had was not “global warming” but “solar warming,” which affected Mars and Jupiter as well, and that as the sun’s activity level has dropped, so too has our temperature. Or we could accept that we really do not have all that much ability to influence our planet’s climate yet, and that the correlation of green house gases the last few decades did not equal causation. We could be honest and admit that we do not know all that much about climatology, not much more than we know about the weather next week.

But then we would have to admit that all this hype and all this worry, and all of the billions of dollars going into trying to stave off what is, under global warming theory, irreversible, is wrong headed.

We cannot do that. Why, some people make careers out of scaring the rest of us with how evil we are, and how much we are hurting the planet! They would be out of a job!

  1. Mr. Michael Reilly “Global Warming: On Hold?” Discovery Channel. Viewed 2009-03-03. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/02/global-warming-pause.html ↩

  2. Ibid. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/02/global-warming-pause-02.html ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090303-0825/global-warming-paused/feed 0 Dawkins stumbles http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090301-0936/dawkins-stumbles http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090301-0936/dawkins-stumbles#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:36:31 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1014 Periodically when I follow the RSS link to Dr. Mike Adams’ articles, I end up somewhere else. This time, I read the entire article before I realized it.

It seems that Dr. Dawkins has again accepted an invitation to debate a theist. This time, it further appears that he tried to rig the debate, and deny his opponent a real opportunity to refute his theory. Picking a columnist with this hope proves to be foolish. Mr. Dinesh D’Souza shows how Dr. Dawkins stumbled in thinking that Mr. D’Souza would not have a chance to refute his (Dr. Dawkins’) poor logic.1 Dr. Dawkins excuse is probably that as this happened on Al-Jazeera, and not a more reputable news source, his slip will be missed.

PS: Judging from the datestamp in the URL, I would say that Dr. Dawkins was correcting in assuming his slip would be missed by most people.

  1. Mr. Dinesh D’Souza. “Countering Richard Dawkins on Al-Jazeera” Townhall.com Viewed 2009-03-01 http://townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2008/07/28/countering_richard_dawkins_on_al-jazeera ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090301-0936/dawkins-stumbles/feed 0 Surviving the Singularity http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090222-0951/surviving-the-singularity http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090222-0951/surviving-the-singularity#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:51:55 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1012 Your result for “Surviving The Singularity” Test…

The Prepared Post-Human

44/60 Acquired Aptitude, 44/60 Active Adaptability and 39/60 Affirmative Attitude!

You’re a true Techno-Tight flier, you’re the top Tech-trier, Hip to the Hotwire, Flash memory and Firewire, impatient in places where wi-fi is slow, hey, under 100mbps, you gotta go! But this tech that you take, only some do you make; Tux the Penguin’s no fake; perl script? piece o’cake! So you’re macro’s and modemed and moused and migod, where’s milife?

You’re Approaching the Event Horizon at 44/60 Aptitude, Turning Towards Transition at 44/60 Adaptability and Mentally Merging with the Multiverse at 39/60 Attitude! You’re veritably virtual, a psyched-up cybernaut and, on The Net, your screen name is legion, your avatar all-present in all avenues and venues, beyond Mediocre Mentalities of the Meat World.

You are so wired you’re half-way to cyborg status, You Multi-task with Mac-like memorability: a task-juggling Jaguar; You Live Lustily like Linux: Learning to Love to the Limit!

YOU WILL BE THE FUTURE!

Take “Surviving The Singularity” Test at HelloQuizzy

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090222-0951/surviving-the-singularity/feed 0 The Measure of a Man http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090222-0936/the-measure-of-a-man http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090222-0936/the-measure-of-a-man#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:36:48 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1010 Your result for What is the Measure of a Man? The Gentleman’s Test…

The Scholar

Learning is your passion!

Marvelous! You epitomize the gentlemanly tradition of ongoing education and self-improvement! Your sparkling tongue is the stuff of legend, and the wide breadth of your knowledge has saved others countless hours of pained research!

Women hang on your every word!

Take What is the Measure of a Man? The Gentleman’s Test at HelloQuizzy

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090222-0936/the-measure-of-a-man/feed 0 Lamarck wins http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090216-0910/lamarck-wins http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090216-0910/lamarck-wins#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:10:31 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1005 I need to go back and finish reading this article, but the first page skimmed seems to indicate that there was more to Lamarck’s theory than we have given him credit for.1

  1. Ms. Emily Singer. “A Comeback for Lamarckian Evolution? Two new studies show that the effects of a mother’s early environment can be passed on to the next generation.” Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Viewed 2009-02-16. http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22061/ ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090216-0910/lamarck-wins/feed 0 How typical http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090214-0951/how-typical http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090214-0951/how-typical#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:51:33 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=1002 Boston College’s president has made the executive decision to place a crucifix in each of the classrooms on campus.1 While it is reported that student responses are generally positive, the faculty is apparently deeply divided and upset.2 I suppose the good news is that the younger generation is at least apparently somewhat more open to faith than the older. The bad news is that the older will be teaching the younger.

  1. Catholic News Agency. “Boston College attracts praise and hostility for placing crucifixes in classrooms” http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15079 Viewed 2009-02-14. ↩

  2. Ibid. ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090214-0951/how-typical/feed 0 Converging clues http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090114-0745/converging-clues http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090114-0745/converging-clues#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:45:44 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090114-0745/converging-clues This1 article corresponds well with some of the stuff that Fr. Philip Chavez2 has said. The ideas are not identical, but they fit together. This is good.

  1. Innovative Media, Inc. “7 Things Teenage Boys Most Need” Zenit. http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-24773 ↩

  2. http://frphillipchavez.org/ ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090114-0745/converging-clues/feed 0 Blog conversion project http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090111-1830/blog-conversion-project http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090111-1830/blog-conversion-project#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:30:16 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=996 Google has set up an open source project to help convert between blogging software formats.1 From the press release,2 it supports Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress. Very cool.

  1. Google. “google-blog-converters-appengine” Viewed 2009-01-11. http://code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/ ↩

  2. J.J. Lueck. “Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released” “Open Source at Google”. 2009-01-09. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-blog-converters-10-released.html ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090111-1830/blog-conversion-project/feed 0 Feedback http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090103-1804/feedback http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090103-1804/feedback#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:04:33 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=988 In the last few days, with very little discussion among developers, an implementation of brainstorm was setup on the pidgin.im site. I would like to emphasize that taking this site down is not because we are indifferent to user feedback, nor actively ignoring it. Here, particularly, nothing could be further from the truth.

Our concern is two part. Firstly, the brainstorm site is built on top of drupal, which requires significant resources on the part of the server. We are concerned that under the load we have seen in the past, our servers will be unable to run drupal, and its existence, rather than furthering communication between our users and our developers, will in fact impede it, by bringing our website down entirely.

Secondly, our concern is that, like the forums we used to have on SourceForge, the brainstorm site will become a backwater of sorts, where users submit feedback yes, but also a site where that feedback goes largely unheard.

The brainstorm site, to be useful, will require a very active developer presence. Partly because proposing and voting on features does no good if developers do not see the votes, but for more mundane and fundamental reasons as well.

Already, in the couple days the site is been up, we see some problems. Duplicates here, as in the Trac tickets, are quite common, and quite frequently going unnoticed by the average user. Over time, duplicates like this will mean that the same idea will either have its votes split across so many different items that it will appear, falsely, relatively unpopular, or will be voted up so many times by the same user (once on each instance), that when it is noticed and merged, it will, equally falsely, appear disproportionately popular.

A separate concern of my own is that users seeing the brainstorm site, with its high emphasis on voting, will fail to take head of the note that it does not and will not significantly affect the direction development takes.

Open source developers work best, work at all in many cases, when they are given free reign to work on projects and subprojects that interest them,. If I, or anyone else, tried to tell our developers that they must drop everything and work on the 5 most popular ideas, most of them would quickly find that their free time could be more enjoyably spent on other projects. In an ideal world the ideas that most interest developers would closely mirror the desires of the larger community, but when users fail to step up, develop a trust relationship with others, and join in the development process, reality deviates from the ideal. In such cases, things of great importance to the larger community will languish.

The idea behind this voting system, as I see it, is to answer the question “What can I do to help?”. When an idea is highly popular, but not yet being worked on, we as a community, if there is to be a community, and not just a clamoring mob of users, need to realize that help is needed to achieve that goal. A highly voted for idea should thus be seen as an open invitation for a patch, or more realistically, a series of patches, from someone who has never before worked with us, or who, having worked with us some in the past, is looking around for what to tackle next.

For this reason, along with my concerns about resources, I feel it to be very important that a voting system be integrated in with the normal development process. While this might somewhat increase the burden of submitting a new idea, most if not all of the ideas submitted so far reflect tickets already submitted in Trac. However, once an idea is submitted, having the voting integrated in with the development process will ensure that it is, in fact, feedback; that it is seen by those working with the Pidgin, Finch and libpurple code base.

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090103-1804/feedback/feed 2 St. Jude http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081219-0822/st-jude http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081219-0822/st-jude#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:22:32 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081219-0822/st-jude Dr. Mike Adams quotes Saint Jude’s Epistle several times in his article, “St. Jude, Don’t Make it Bad”1. I need to read it. I need to read more non-fiction in general.

  1. Dr. Mike Adams. “St. Jude, Don’t Make it Bad” TownHall.com 2008-12-18. http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/12/18/st_jude,_dont_make_it_bad?page=full&comments=true ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081219-0822/st-jude/feed 0 Cute Animal Quiz http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081209-2127/cute-animal-quiz http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081209-2127/cute-animal-quiz#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:27:40 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=979
You Are A: Turtle!

turtleThese reptiles, famous for their hard outer shells, spent their days roaming for food and relaxing in the water. As a turtle you are not very speedy, nor are you soft and cuddly. You tend to hide in your shell and you aren’t much of a sprinter, but you are quite tough. You also happen to be as cute as you are fascinating.

You were almost a: Kitten or a Bear Cub
You are least like a: Duckling or a Chipmunk Cute Animal Quiz!

Sea turtles also help keep down the jelly fish count, and thus make the oceans a safer place to swim.

☺

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081209-2127/cute-animal-quiz/feed 0 Explaining http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-1427/explaining http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-1427/explaining#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:27:54 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=977 The quote1 actually says

  • science != consensus
  • politics == consensus
  • science == ∃ X such that ((X == investigator) && (X == “correct”); where (”correct” == “results are verifiable in reference to the real world”))

The problem is that skepticism does not reign throughout much of science. Rather, dogmatism reigns. Anyone who dissents is silenced. If the environment we have today existed, Einstein would not have been able to publish, he upset too many careers. But back then the science journals were not as tightly controlled as they are now, and it was more possible then for a radical idea to get published.

It is then asked, “what does it mean to say in reference to the real world.”2 A valid question. What is meant here is that results have to bear out, taking relativity for an example again, we can see that the data fits better than Newtonian physics. However, Global Warming doesn’t account for a great deal of the data out there. Relativity fits the real world. Global warming is questionable at best.

  1. Mr. Luke Schierer. “Quote of the Day” Random Unfinished Thoughts. 2008-11-14 http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-0722/quote-of-the-day-35 ↩

  2. “damian792″. “Ramblings” The Clydesdale Chronicles 2008-11-14 http://damian792.livejournal.com/100114.html ↩

]]> http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-1427/explaining/feed 0 Quote of the Day http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-0722/quote-of-the-day-35 http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-0722/quote-of-the-day-35#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:22:56 +0000 Luke Schierer http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/?p=972 “The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.” – Michael Crichton1

  1. Michael Crichton. “Aliens Cause Global Warming” reprinted in Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2008. Quote seen on “Evolution News & Views” blog post “Is There a “Consensus” in Science? Remembering the Late Michael Crichton” by Mr. Casey Luskin http://www.evolutionnews.org/2008/11/is_there_a_consensus_in_scienc.html 2008-11-14. ↩

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