Sadly, she is no more, PC

Yes, I know, and I agree that it is extremely sad — though she might have said that the extra years she had after the crocodile episode were all gravy anyway. I meant ‘is’ in the sense that her work endures, as in ‘Shakespeare is Teh Bomb’.

Sadly, she is no more, PC

No your lying.

EVIDENCE!!!

Not advocatin’; not denyin’; just sayin’. Some of it is persuasive, some of it is a stretch too far, all of it is thought-provoking. The Australian Val Plumwood is a particularly impressive theorist and writer in this field.

It is, to use what I think was Mark’s phrase, an exploration of ideas and as such susceptible neither of proof nor of disproof, calls for either of which are merely evidence of a very basic act of category confusion.

All JG wants is attention of course, and I’ve gone and fallen into his trap again.

Hey everyone! Did you hear the one about the thing which had nothing to do with John Greenfield? How interesting and worth everyone’s time was that?

Yarr, hound’s harbles they be.

I urge you all to do the same.

You would do well to avoid discussion of Camille Paglia. You are WAY out your depth.

We unreservedly embrace a more “feminised” and “nurturing” approach. So repeat:

1. There is no such thing as society

2. Aboriginal welfare payments must be quarantined.

3. The Lady is not for turning.

3. For a certain kind of person (e.g. Peter Walsh) acceptance of the reality of climate change means accepting that a group of people who one deeply dislikes and disapproves of are right and have been right for a long about something important which one has been wrong about for a long time. It means eating crow – uncooked, feathers, feet, beak, gizzards and all.

A little like Marxist-Leninists and the market economy, the apparatus of liberal (bourgeois) democracy et al.

I’d have thought that Phillip Adams would have had a black Ferrari. Would that still make him a blokey bloke, or do they have to be red?

What is it about red fucking Ferraris. Every grand prix week-end every well to do Italianaustralian has to park his or her Ferrari on Lygon St. The whole street is one long red Ferrari. Except the rugged individualist with the yellow one (they’re keeping an eye on that one).
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Any one of you guys ever think about getting a Maserati? That’s class. And make it midnight blue!
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And Philip Adams needs to shut-up now, for ever.

That petition is a joke. They let anyone with even a mere bachelor of science degree sign it, and they don’t require that the signer has even worked as a scientist. Do you know how many Americans qualify? According the National Science Foundation, 15.7 million Americans have at least one degree in a science and engineering field, which puts those 31000 in perspective: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind06/c3/c3h.htm

If I were an American, I could sign it — I’ve got an MSc (and have never had a paid job as a scientist). But I wouldn’t. Which proves nothing either way, because science doesn’t work by signing petitions.

See also http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/oregon-institute-of-science-and-malarkey/