Comments on: The Debunking Handbook http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/ The official Derren Brown Blog Mon, 07 May 2012 09:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Starspangledalien http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-99317 Starspangledalien Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:52:10 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-99317 Oh how I love these egotistical rows and closed minds. I havent seen this yet .. am doing some sort of a Derren Brown catch up if you will.... however why are each of us so opinionated so argumentative (rhetorical question if I can)?. I am sure Derren will explore that one day if he hasnt already. Pure pig ignorance on by behalf because I havent read the link however I have had extremist one view situations before and I just think nobody here actually really knows all the views so hey there you go there is my view :=) Anyway would love to see the 2012 Svengali tour.. are there tickets available.!!? Signed the one who did not want to label herself to anything. Oh how I love these egotistical rows and closed minds. I havent seen this yet .. am doing some sort of a Derren Brown catch up if you will…. however why are each of us so opinionated so argumentative (rhetorical question if I can)?. I am sure Derren will explore that one day if he hasnt already. Pure pig ignorance on by behalf because I havent read the link however I have had extremist one view situations before and I just think nobody here actually really knows all the views so hey there you go there is my view :=)

Anyway would love to see the 2012 Svengali tour.. are there tickets available.!!? Signed the one who did not want to label herself to anything.

]]> By: John http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-99290 John Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:56:24 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-99290 Marcus - both the articles you cite are just waffle. They don't even come close to discrediting the claim that warming is happening on Mars and Pluto. The articles are just a knee-jerk reaction by the climatist movement to any facts that underminhe their viewpoint. They are excercises in political debate and propoganda, and do not reveal any new data or give any cause to doubt the claims they are trying to counter. The schepticalscience article reads like a condescending teacher telling a child about the tooth fairy; the new scientist article actually admits that these planets are warming, then tries to move the goalposts by saying that *all* the planets would have to warm (wrong: we only need one example of a planet that can warm without human involvement), and then changes the subject. Marcus – both the articles you cite are just waffle. They don’t even come close to discrediting the claim that warming is happening on Mars and Pluto. The articles are just a knee-jerk reaction by the climatist movement to any facts that underminhe their viewpoint. They are excercises in political debate and propoganda, and do not reveal any new data or give any cause to doubt the claims they are trying to counter. The schepticalscience article reads like a condescending teacher telling a child about the tooth fairy; the new scientist article actually admits that these planets are warming, then tries to move the goalposts by saying that *all* the planets would have to warm (wrong: we only need one example of a planet that can warm without human involvement), and then changes the subject.

]]> By: Marcus http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-98991 Marcus Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:27:16 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-98991 Richard Pinder, even your high IQ (that you for some reason felt like flaunting) didn't stop you from falling prey to the myth of Mars temperatures http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11642-climate-myths-mars-and-pluto-are-warming-too.html http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-on-mars-basic.htm Richard Pinder, even your high IQ (that you for some reason felt like flaunting) didn’t stop you from falling prey to the myth of Mars temperatures

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11642-climate-myths-mars-and-pluto-are-warming-too.html

http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-on-mars-basic.htm

]]> By: alan http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-98975 alan Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:24:45 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-98975 Debunking the debunking handbook Science and religion. Finding the flaws in religion is most difficult when attempted from within the ideology itself. Since the parameters used to create and delineate it, are the same ones that protect it. When challenged from within the confines of a similar creed, the flaws in that belief system temper the effectiveness of its attack on another. However a challenge presented from the outside of all such notions, finds their defences to have no strength. Debunking the debunking handbook
Science and religion.
Finding the flaws in religion is most difficult when attempted from within the ideology itself. Since the parameters used to create and delineate it, are the same ones that protect it. When challenged from within the confines of a similar creed, the flaws in that belief system temper the effectiveness of its attack on another. However a challenge presented from the outside of all such notions, finds their defences to have no strength.

]]> By: alan http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-98973 alan Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:59:29 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-98973 global warming. Query: If manmade and real. Why doesn’t the discipline that gifted humans the power to create it, band together? To pressure governments into doing what’s necessary, to ensure the survival of our kind. Plus about a billion other inconvenient questions. global warming.
Query: If manmade and real. Why doesn’t the discipline that gifted humans the power to create it, band together? To pressure governments into doing what’s necessary, to ensure the survival of our kind. Plus about a billion other inconvenient questions.

]]> By: Richard Pinder http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-98950 Richard Pinder Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:00:52 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-98950 When it comes to the so called climate change consensus, the assumptions are more important than the facts and computer models are more important than the observations. With an IQ of 164, this has made me turn into a climate change skeptic. And finding that the best way to calibrate CO2 warming in the Earths Atmosphere is to use the CO2 Atmosphere of Mars as a proxy. Then you discover that Astronomy has all the answers in facts rather than the IPCC’s ASSUMPTIONS, because the answer is in Cosmic Rays, Cloud Albedo and the length of the solar cycle not the 0.01 Kelvin man made CO2 warming. When it comes to the so called climate change consensus, the assumptions are more important than the facts and computer models are more important than the observations. With an IQ of 164, this has made me turn into a climate change skeptic. And finding that the best way to calibrate CO2 warming in the Earths Atmosphere is to use the CO2 Atmosphere of Mars as a proxy. Then you discover that Astronomy has all the answers in facts rather than the IPCC’s ASSUMPTIONS, because the answer is in Cosmic Rays, Cloud Albedo and the length of the solar cycle not the 0.01 Kelvin man made CO2 warming.

]]> By: Mark Stevens http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-98923 Mark Stevens Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:25:20 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-98923 An interesting and thoughtful response from Martin. Follow the link to read his debunk of the debunking. An interesting and thoughtful response from Martin. Follow the link to read his debunk of the debunking.

]]> By: Martin http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-98902 Martin Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:43:31 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-98902 It's certainly a good guide to communicating, insofar as it describes ways of being persuasive. But it says little, if anything, about falsifying, let alone debunking: http://t.co/cLtglWSt It’s certainly a good guide to communicating, insofar as it describes ways of being persuasive. But it says little, if anything, about falsifying, let alone debunking: http://t.co/cLtglWSt

]]> By: Nick http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-98901 Nick Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:06:22 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-98901 Giving facts a fighting chance. Think back to a fond childhood memory. Alternatively choose any fond memory. You feel warm, full of life, caring and open. We eat animals :(. LOL trojan spiritualist on the rampage. trololol. Giving facts a fighting chance. Think back to a fond childhood memory. Alternatively choose any fond memory. You feel warm, full of life, caring and open.

We eat animals :( .

LOL trojan spiritualist on the rampage. trololol.

]]> By: spiderabc1 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2012/01/debunking-handbook/#comment-98900 spiderabc1 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:47 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17605#comment-98900 Thank you DG and Dupin. Off for a butchers. May let you know after : ) Thank you DG and Dupin. Off for a butchers. May let you know after : )

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