{"id":791,"date":"2012-08-13T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/?p=791"},"modified":"2012-08-13T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:28:55","slug":"the-trouble-with-science-at-the-journal-of-american-hoodoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/everything\/the-trouble-with-science-at-the-journal-of-american-hoodoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Science, at the Journal of American Hoodoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"petroglyph\"\"<\/a>I promise not to cross-post everything I put up at the Journal of American Hoodoo<\/strong><\/a>, but my latest article,\u00c2\u00a0The Trouble with Science<\/strong><\/a>, might appeal to some of my old readers here, or back at Tales from the Third Lobe, or Letters from Heck.<\/p>\n

Here’s a teaser excerpt:<\/p>\n

\"R136<\/a>We look up in the sky and see ten thousand points of light (give or take a few orders of magnitude depending on location and light pollution) and then, because knowing where the stars are in the sky helps us pinpoint where we are in the seasons despite the vagaries of the weather, we draw lines around them and connecting them and give the drawings names. And we make up stories about the drawings so that we can remember them, and remember that the positions of the stars are important, and, if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re clever enough with the stories, why.<\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153why the positions of the stars are important to us\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, not any bigger sort of why, like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153why are stars the things that are important\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Certainly not a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what are stars\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Nor a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, as in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how do the positions of the stars drive the planting and harvest cycles\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not true. The stories can actually address such things. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that when they do, the risk of bullshit is dangerously high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If that strikes your fancy, go check it out<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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PS:<\/p>\n

Also it uses the phrase “nice singularities don’t explode”.<\/p>\n

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