A very short presentation on "epic fights in science" (or is it Science) featuring uncouth Gerrie mama Sabine Hossenfelder.
The most interesting piece of info is that Fred Hoyle was essentially denied the Nobel Prize by some angry committee, although it´s not entirely clear why. But sure, Hoyle was controversial and the Nobel Prize olympians apparently decided to make an example of him.
And no, I didn´t know that Edward Wilson and Richard Dawkins (of all people) had a public feud. Hmmm...
Sabine Hossenfelder calls out the pseudo-scientific scientists...again! But also some religious believers. In the first clip, she points out that the "fine tuning argument" isn´t properly scientific, since we (of course) don´t know the probability of the cosmic constants being what they are.
In the second clip (which I have linked to before), she takes on the speculations about the multiverse, "string theory" and "the many worlds interpretation". And know what? They aren´t scientific either. Hossenfelder also believes that certain scientists (or are they math teachers?) confuse mathematics with reality...
"The many worlds interpretation" is so obviously absurd that it frankly gives science a bad name. Note that Hossenfelder attacks both the religious version of "fine tuning" and the secular attempt to explain away its God-friendly implications by appealing to a multiverse.
Does this hardboiled German mama have any friends at all, I wonder? :D
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Plötsligt bara händer det...
Veckans Strasser är tillbaka. Denna gång går utmärkelsen till Åsa Linderborg. Inte helt oväntat, kanske?
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Kan inte klimataktivisterna attackera modern konst istället? Då hade jag nästan kunnat tänka mig att stödja deras aktioner. Monet är inte tillräckligt modern, era jävla misslyckade konstkritiker!
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Not sure if anyone wants to listen to a two-hour presentation by Irish Traditionalist Keith Woods about why Ted Kaczynski was wrong, but if you do, well, see link above.
The most interesting part of the slide show might actually be that Woods doesn´t sound particularly Traditionalist. But, as somebody else pointed out, Traditionalism is forever new. And forever heterodox...
Based heretic Edward Dutton argues that evolution can happen very fast. Translation: our IQ is going down, and it´s genetic. Solution: Unknown. Eugenics?
An interesting introduction to "UFO religions", here New Religious Movements with a kind-of-traditionally-religious-or-spiritual attitude towards UFOs and space aliens (as defined by American post-war pop culture and ufology).
This kind of UFO religions emerged after World War II. The narrator points out that they were influenced by Theosophy, but I think one could go even further and argue that many of them *were* Theosophists, rather than merely "influenced" by them. That is, Theosophists in the ideological sense, as opposed to card-carrying members of the Adyar society.
As one of the commentators to the first video points out, religions postulating the existence of extraterrestrials certainly existed already before the UFO craze (the Urantia Book), which brings me to the second video.
Would the confirmation of extraterrestrial intelligent life destroy religion? The obvious answers is "no", and this for two reasons. First, religion always adapt to changes in society´s reality-perception, so why not here? This reason is mentioned by the narrator. Second, ETs might fit into traditional religious frameworks, for instance by declaring them to be demons or asuras. Indeed, some Christians and Hare Krishnas are already doing this!
However, there is yet another reason for why an ET-UFO disclosure won´t be as dramatic as many people think. *The idea that there are super-intelligent demigod-like space aliens is part and parcel of the secular-atheist mythology of our time*. It´s the notion that we are alone that would truly shock people...secular people, that is.
Maybe that´s why they are constantly sperging about Christianity collapsing due to evidence of extraterrestrial life...
