Posts by DanHarper

Hefty physicist: Global warming is 'pseudoscientific fraud'

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Being a 'Professor Emeritus' is not 'still being on staff', it is the exact opposite in fact. Please ask you friend Google for the latest paper the man published.

Ad hominem' is only a fallacy if it is not relevant. The fact that the man was not an active researcher in *any* field during the time when consensus on global warming was reached is not irrelevant. Consequently, pointing this out is not Ad hominem.

I never said anyone is a religious wackjob, I just demonstrated that your argument can be used to imply the Theory of Evolution is wrong. This is just Ad absurdum.

Calling someone a troll actually *is* Ad hominem. Linking to a list of fallacies is just being a prick

Concpiracy uncovered by retired 87 years old physicist. Now what else is new?

The man is 87 years old. He is not active in any related field or even does research at all right now. In fact, he has nothing to lose - he can't be "fired" as some comments here claim he would be.

Like any other conspiracy theory lovers, the anti-global-warming crowd fails to apply the same critical and suspicious mindset to their own theories.

Has Lewis actually presented any factual evidence for this mega conspiracy that thousands of people take part in? Has he presented any serious criticism of existing peer reviewed papers except for claiming that scientists benefit from being published?

Replace 'Global Warming' with 'Evolution' and his claim will still have the same amount factual evidence to support it. Don't researchers benefit from publishing papers that don't go against evolution? Don't we have whole departments that will be closed if evolution will be found false?

Is Evolution theory really a consensus among all researchers (even those in "christian universities" in the mid west)?

Judas Phone: more Photoshop tomfoolery

Describing people who object current copyright laws as being "freetads" is Manichean

Pointing out how easy it is to get on the wrong side of nonsensical copyright laws hardly is.

And just giving credit won't help you - the image is not a parody of "Left for Dead", and is not related to the game at all. The artist just needed an image of a hand missing a finger and "stole" (as large corporations like to call it) the image from Valve. Nothing protects this kind of use (although it makes sense there should have been)

In reality, Valve don't know you use the image and don't care, so you can and should use it . But the fact that all of this discussion is even necessary shows the sad state of current copyright law.

Google betas Flash-free YouTube sans open codec

Because a standard should be, well.. a standard

A web site cannot depend on you installing codecs in a proprietary format on every platform a browser can run on. The whole point in abandoning flash is you don' need to install other plugins...