Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. One of the interesting things about YouTube is that items come and go. Thus, if one occasionally revisits searches for favourite works that were not previously available, one occasionally finds that they have become now available. And so it is that tonight, for your delectation, here are Praful performing one of my favourite works: Sigh, from their One Day Deep album, in 2002 (6:07).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. John Williams performing Asturias ¤ (6:00), the fifth movement of Isaac Albéniz i Pascual‘s 1886 collection: Suite Española, Op. 47. Those who like this style of music may also wish to revisit Maria del Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza Rasten’s performance of Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea’s Recuerdos de la Alhambra, on our 2008-10-24 SDA LNR Show.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
Peter Lilley, one of several senior members of Britain’s ruling Tory party who are questioning whether the science of AGW is settled, and whether a political consensus on AGW actually exists, is quoted in today’s Independent as saying that the “effects (of global warming) tend to be exaggerated.”
In the ongoing debate over AGW, this important question of whether we actually know that a one or two degree increase would lead to environmental Armageddon has been pushed off the proverbial radar screen. Well, never mind a degree or two, let’s up the ante: in tonight’s musical selection, flamboyant Australian songwriter/entertainer Peter Allen is practically on fire as he commences to perform his signature song I Go To Rio, and when he does burst into flames at around the 2:25 mark, he simply grabs a hand fan and uses it to fan the flames! What panache!
Feel free to grab your own maracas and bunny hop your Reader Tips into the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week’s SDA distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposium. This week, for your delectation, here is the great Richard Phillips Feynman presenting his excellent thoughts on The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, II, III, IV, and V, from his interview on the Horizon television programme in 1981.

Richard touches on many aspects of science and discovery that I think are important for us to occasionally revisit, especially during trying times like this when there is the danger from some that the immeasurable good that we have obtained via science over the millennia is threatened by those who would trash science per se solely for their own personal gain or simply out of anger that some people fraudulently claimed to be doing science when they were not.

While we’re on the topic of the SDA DLDI Symposia, you may wish to note that many of our previous symposia are directly relevant to the malfeasance we have now seen perpetrated by the climate- change industry, including Why We Think It’s OK to Cheat & Steal (Sometimes), by Dan Ariely, Celebrating the Scientific Experiment, by Kary Mullis, Why Doesn’t the Public Trust Scientists?, by Onora O’Neill, and A New Way to Explain Explanation, by David Deutsch.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Bob Shane, John
Stewart, and Nick Reynolds, as the Kingston Trio, performing
Scotch & Soda, ca. 1967 (2:44).

As y’all know, for many years now there has been an ongoing debate between those who think that recent abnormal changes in the temperature of the earth’s biosphere have been caused by side-effects from the behaviour of homo sapiens, and those who do not think they have been so caused. It turns out that in practice they are both wrong: there have not actually been any abnormal changes in said temperature. As a result of the exposure of The CRU Papers, we now know that claims of such changes were fraudulently fabricated and perpetrated by the priests and believers of the fear-mongering climate-change faith system.

And, just as fraudulent claims by the false priests of any other fear-mongering religion claiming to be saving your soul in some non-confirmable way say nothing about the metaphysics of theology, so too the protection-racket extortions being perpetrated by the false priests of abnormal climate change say nothing about the epistemology of science.

What we have here is not science, folks, it is neither more nor less than yet another example of the never-ending phenomena of human mob behaviour so well illustrated in Charles Mackay’s 1852 classic, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds. Like other frauds and bubbles documented therein, this one is now bursting due to the inadequacies of its own undergirding. Because of the degree of deployment in this case, the terminal phase of this bubble will take some time, but eventually The CRU Papers and Climategate will become known as the beginning of the end of the current Climate Change Bubble.

Meanwhile, homo sapiens will merrily continue on: first chasing and then bursting whatever other fraudulent bubbles happen to capture our mob fancy from time to time, such as various instantiations of collectivism and godism and dowsing and other mystical and paranormal beliefs. If it weren’t that somehow we seem to continue to incrementally improve our temporo-normative situation, three steps forward and two steps back, one might as well be a pessimist, but since we do, one might as well be an optimist (besides, as Heinlein pointed out: it’s more fun).

So, to be clear, my additional Reader Tip for you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, is: try to avoid saying that these recent results tell us something about science. They only tell us something about some people who were lying to us about doing science: they said they were and they were not. Don’t let their malfeasance reflect badly upon you by dint of your mischaracterizing it.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. In tonight’s musical selection Texas native George Strait warns of interpersonal climate change, in his performance of Carter Wood’s ridiculously catchy Don’t Make Me Come Over There And Love You.
The comment thread is open for any interesting/timely tips you’d like to pass along to your fellow SDA readers.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight, under the aegis of SDA’s ongoing Cultural Outreach Program, which was hopelessly designed to further awareness and understanding between disparate communities, we present a Queen’s English translation of a volubly heated freestyle Rap Battle. The debate format is as follows: practitioner Hydrogen asserts his thesis, Boost is given the opportunity to provide his counterargument, and then the floor is opened to questions and comments.
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