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		<title>Debunking the Debunking Handbook</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/debunking-the-debunking-handbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SkepticalScience has published the Debunking Handbook that is intended to summarise how you show an argument is wrong. Unfortunately&#8230; it&#8217;s wrong in some fairly fundamental ways. The summary at the beginning says: &#8220;Debunking myths is problematic. Unless great care is taken, any effort to debunk misinformation can inadvertently reinforce the very myths one seeks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=951&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aggregating Adversarial Argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reasonably intelligent. I am interested in the topic, and so am reasonably well read and informed on it. The conclusions I come to follow reasoned lines, match presented evidence well, and are rationally the most likely. They are scientific. Many other interested, intelligent people have also come to the same conclusions. You, however, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=947&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visualising the Remote Sensing Satellite data</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/visualising-the-remote-sensing-satellite-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To practice getting back into coding again, I wrote a quick visualiser for the global temperature satellite measurements, and it&#8217;s quite pretty so seems worth presenting. The RSS data is already presented as graphs and outlines here, but I thought it would be interesting to see what happened across the globe over time. The data [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=919&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC&#8217;s (Im)partial Science Reporting</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/bbcs-impartial-science-reporting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bad Journalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is holding another review on its impartiality, this time on how it presents scientific subjects: Science impartiality review &#8211; terms of reference (PDF). It has existing guidelines, and it has held such reviews before on how it reports on subjects such as religion and the middle east. This is all Good Stuff, as the BBC&#8217;s reputation rests [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=832&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not &#8220;Winning the War on&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/not-winning-the-war-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["The War On.." is a poor metaphor for most human missions, even ones involving war<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=818&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Painful Subject of&#8230; Interrogative Torture</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/the-painful-subject-of-interrogative-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, following memos and documents released from the interrogations at Guatamalo and others, some writers argued that torture doesn&#8217;t work: Torture does it work? and Still probably not Torture does it actually work? In &#8216;defence&#8217; of torture The Utility of Torture and a raft of others. In this article, long awaited by both readers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=547&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Scientists do Science</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/most-scientists-do-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the letter in Science magazine, from scientists defending scientists when they should really be defending science, there was this editorial from Brooks Hanson. Brooks makes a few points far more politely than I do about some of the shortcomings in some disciplines, and this one I think is particularly pertinent: &#8220;The scientific community must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=778&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Scientists Fail At Science. Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 13:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite an extraordinary letter (Climate Change and the Integrity of Science) was posted in the May 7th issue of American Science Magazine. The extraordinariness of it lies in its incompetent defence of &#8216;science&#8217;, by people supposedly qualified to do it. I will assume, for the moment, that there is indeed &#8220;compelling, comprehensive, and consistent objective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=770&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not the PR, It&#8217;s the Practice, People</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/its-not-the-pr-its-the-practice-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, news reaches the mainstream media that scientists somewhere have got something wrong, or behaved in not quite the objective and open manner they pretend to. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not. There follows a public huff about scientists not knowing everything, about how they can&#8217;t be trusted. Scientists then discuss how best to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=719&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hydrogen: not as clean as petrol</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/hydrogen-not-as-clean-as-petrol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hydrogen fuel is sometimes given as a clean, sustainable alternative to petrol and other fossil fuels. For background, fossil fuels such as oil, petrol and coal mostly consist of hydrocarbons; they are basically made of hydrogen and carbon. These burn &#8211; combine with oxygen &#8211; to produce water from the hydrogen combining with the oxygen, and carbon dioxide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3850189&amp;post=264&amp;subd=softestpawn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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