Tag: Tenure
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Avi does Carver
Avi makes a nice strong Carverian point in this piece. He’s discussing astronomical stuff like gravitational waves and spectral lines. In each case the theoreticians predicted that the signal would never be there, or at best would be ferociously hard to detect among the noise. In each case the signal was perfectly obvious after the […]
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Stacks, not Savannahs
Sharp observation from Gary Smith, discussing the perils of letting stats lead you around by the nose: Our distant ancestors benefitted from noticing that elephants could lead them to water and that wildebeest stampedes might warn them of predators. The best pattern spotters were more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on their pattern-recognition skills […]
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Thinking like an astronomer
Avi is an astronomer, so it’s not shocking that he thinks like an astronomer. The ultimate goal of his project: = = = = = I am often asked why the Galileo Project aims to collect its own data on UAP rather than rely on numerous images taken by cell phone cameras. The reason is […]
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Big news for the renaissance
Avi Loeb has achieved solid crowdfunding for his project to investigate a meteorite. He considers this particular rock found in New Guinea to be a possible UFO. This is a BIG development toward the PROPER functioning of science. Since 1946 (of course) the military has sucked up all potential UFOs and all information about the […]
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Special yup
An article at Brownstone hits all the right points about the “virus”, in the usual overly cautious Brownstone way. I want to single it out for special kudos because FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE a commentator grasped the basic truth about colleges: In some past golden age, we like to think that university […]
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More BIG
Wesley Smith hits hard on two BIG corrections in BIG medical topics. Two longstanding orthodoxies have been PROVED wrong. 1. Depression is caused by biochemistry. Wrong but probably not fraudulent. 2. Alzheimers is caused by plaque. Wrong and deliberate fraud. THIS IS BIG. I already know 1 is wrong, because I’ve figured out non-chemical ways […]
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Possible answer
Convective thought, triggered by the ascendance of Sunak as Boris’s replacement. Fact 1: In the last 10 years, immigrants from India have been filling the elite slots that were formerly held by Anglos and Jews. This is happening in NYC banking, in Silicon Valley tech, and in some parts of academia. Now the new elites […]
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How old?
Earlier I mentioned a 1953 interview with science writer Ruth Moore, who was pushing her book Man, Time and Fossils. I decided to buy the book, mainly as spiritual ‘pay for value’. I opened it, not expecting much of substance, and got a tremendous surprise. This is the best non-fiction book I’ve ever read. Moore […]
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Beyond convergence
Looking for a link, I noticed my earlier discussions of the fake “free university” in Austin. Decided it was time for another peek at their website. The main banner still shows their lack of real purpose. They’re waiting for accreditation instead of going ahead and running some classes. Dammit, rent a suite of offices and […]
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Model of the solution
MindMatters is worrying about hard-to-detect deepfakes in “scientific” research. As with replication, this is not a serious problem, and doesn’t affect real research. The real problem is tenure and federal funding. Quantity, not quality. The vast QUANTITY of low QUALITY papers is a direct result of tenure and grants. These papers don’t matter because real […]
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More rambling on UATX
Most of our institutions are stuck in a Parkinsonian positive feedback loop, often without any real reason. Corporations and universities and media channels keep punching and torturing and strangling their customers, and then they wonder why their customers are running away. Life is negative feedback. If the current path is leading to failure, try something […]
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Reprint on tenure
Looking for a href on tenure to reinforce previous item on UATX bait and switch, found this from 2020. It’s a pretty good general roundup of the problem and the solution. = = = = = START REPRINT: Some people are starting to catch on to a chronic long-standing problem, which has become acute and […]
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Parallax
This author looks at the new allegedly planned Austin “freedom university” from a Catholic perspective. It’s mostly outside of my secular understanding, but her suspicions end up pretty much the same as mine. We’re marking the same target from different angles. The Catholic viewpoint: UATX is strictly within the Enlightenment framework, with no centerpoint of […]
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Analog people
Speaking of professional critics vs reality…. The Harris Poll shows about 2/3 of Americans approve Elon’s takeover of Twitter. Sharp comments by the CEO of Harris: It’s a reminder that the views of Twitter’s blue-checkmarked class, professional pundits, and journalists often diverge from the views of most Americans. Perhaps they should spend less time interacting […]
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Explicit tag
I’ve been using the Entertainment tag on the UFO and Fortean items lately. I should make the connection more explicit. The Forteans were trying to pull science back into the realm of entertainment and mystification and fascination. Their constant theme, starting with Charles Fort himself, was that Big Science is no longer observing Nature with […]
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