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I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an...more

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A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good to...more

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I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. N...more

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Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangero...more

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Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes...more

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But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to ch...more