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Is too much pounding the table the problem with science today?

4 August 2024 / 12 Comments

“Science requires open debate. It does not advance by consensus or political pressure”.

What is science

“The scientific method requires scientists to test all theories. Science progresses not by claiming a theory is true but by proving a theory is false”.

I will start this essay by clarifying what science is not.

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A case study in folly #1 – bushfire management in karri country

3 June 2022 / 3 Comments

After a recent tour of the south-west forests during our travels around Australia, I saw karri forests chocked with fuels and I wanted to write about fire management, or lack of. I struggled, however, to conjure the words that would convey the essence of the problem. I realised that no matter how much I tried, I didn’t have “the sap of karri trees running through my veins”.… Read more