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Re: [Phys-L] Does anyone doubt that one political party is against science and education?



"... outlawed any mathematical model for sea level rise that isn't linear and based solely upon their prescribed historical data set..."

I guess that's the difference between maths and science, in both areas laws are human constructions of meaning, and in both areas people have biases, but in science, ultimately, we require those human constructions to pass tests against new data whereas mathematicians (and politicians it seems) can have whatever laws they wish.

(tongue-somewhat-in-cheek)

Best wishes

Keith


For what it's worth - the Great Legislators here in North Carolina
> have now outlawed any mathematical model for sea level rise that
isn't linear and based solely upon their prescribed historical data
> set.
.
At 11:35 PM -0400 7/1/12, Jeff Bigler wrote:
If the Texachusylvania Republicratic party had passed a law defining g
to be 9.8000000 m/s^2 everywhere in the universe, that would be different.
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