ourdough Mountain, as the name implies, hosted a mining camp that appears to be a moderately-serious old base-camp or prospect, on a line of recorded claims along a band of mineralization, ca 1930s. It consists of a fairly/partly level little sheltered meadow in the trees, on the ridge-top and tucked in against the west foot …
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Lobotomy a famed battleground of the Better Living Through Chemistry wars
obotomy has become a cautionary tale, and most typical folks view it as an appalling spectre and grave miscarriage of everything right & decent. It’s true, though, that depression too-often leads to suicide, which is fatal; real/serious mental illness is often a living hell, for both the victim and especially the family. Society itself can be …
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Piltdown Man
iltdown Man is not so much a problem for Science, on account of it being a high-profile, historical hoax. Rather, the problem is that it took 41 years for the combined Authority & Accumen of this Institution to acknowledge what was readily within Science’s technical ability to determine, from the outset in 1912. The supposed-fossil …
Lysenkoism
ysenkoism is probably not, is at least partially not a very good fit for the knee-jerk anti-intellectual (science) goof that it’s usually posed as. Mr. Lysenko proposed – and sold – what substantially amounts to Lamarkism, or the transmission of acquired traits. In others words, that grains can be adapted to cold northern climates, simply …
Eugenics
ugenics is scientifically valid & verifiable. The problem with it isn’t in the science. It runs into trouble, in the realm of politics. What science says about eugenics is true; the rejection of it is not a good example of . Science is penalized on the topic of eugenics, because it was an avoidable social …
Science As Self-Correcting
Science as self-correcting is a precept that merits a closer, critical examination. In trivial cases, yes, sure; the strict Hypothesis-Test formalism is internally self-correcting, in theory. had a long run – a full half century, a good couple generations, plus – as a productive but controversial area of scientific inquiry, and the fundamental unacceptibility of …
Validating Scientology
alidating Scientology is the unintended outcome of entertainment projects designed to hold the beliefs of the church up to ridicule. The church can indeed be legitimately criticized and effectively marginalized, by exposing it as a more-or-less criminalized cult. But trying to take them down because their beliefs seem silly, ludicrous or outlandish, is unlikely to …
Lemuria
emuria, like , is held to be a lost land or continent that sank beneath the ocean. Unlike Atlantis, Lemuria is a hypothesis of modern science, proposed in 1864 by zoologist . The fossil record – in this case the Lemurs of Madagascar and India (hence the name) – attests to related animal groups in …