Science Triumphalism is a Dead Letter Now

Those men particularly, but certainly not only, โ€˜in the third box,โ€™ only capable of primary-schooler, mechanical or constructivist ideation due to earlier trauma or developmental delay, incapable of conceptual, macro-scaled critical analysis..

Science is in trouble on every continent affected by corporation-, investor-, financier-, grey-market (derivatives, cryptocurrency, neighborhood level ‘vice,’ drugs and crime)-, and black market (gangsters, drug importation, captive workers, trafficking, child exploitation, military/ regime death camps) -DRIVEN INFLATION with everyone who is angry about wasted public funds and lavishly publicly subsidised and Internal Revenue or national Taxation Office exempted, rebated and rewarded projects that do nothing for economies but nominally deploy tens of thousands of people on commonly tedious, repetitive, regimented if not INANE tasks (more suited to the fast and clever young) – in essentially counting living things, or in the case illustrated below, poisoned moribund things, and uploading terabytes of frankly junk data of no service to the human project but only to the billionaire cabal whereby it persists with an aspirationally ENDLESS FISCAL GROWTH AND ENRICHMENT TRIUMPHALIST IRRELEVANT SCIENCE1 VENTURE FOR ITS ACOLYTES AND SUCK-HOLES in its nefarious business of erasing economy, languages, LIVING culture – or faith and society – for the fun and profit of itself while all around it millions are fraught, injured and killed by ‘want, squalor, disease,’ and my final two of William Beveridge’s 1942 socio-economic catastrophes, idleness and ignorance – these being the unmistakable PRIMARILY-INTENDED SOCIALLY ENGINEERED OUTCOMES of what we ALL glibly and erroneously call artificial intelligence – the genocidal assault by ideologically fascist, ‘totalist,’ ‘Aryan,’ unregulated and dysregulated neoliberal regimes against ALL non Anglo Celtic peoples, all non Christian and non Judaic religious practitioners or adherents – or just those like BILLIONS of us WHO ONCE TOOK SOLACE IN ANCIENT SCRIPTURE, OBSERVATION OR CEREMONY – ALL traditional and First Nations peoples, AND, as we come full circle back to the global economic crisis: SYSTEMATIC ATTACK ON THE INCOME, HOUSING and FOOD SECURITY of ALL MIDDLE-INCOME WORKING householders – manifestly and obviously to any skilled and capable economic planner INTENDED to reach right into the UPPER MIDDLE INCOME households and smash their savings each year ahead..

“Here, we present a AI-based model for predicting chemical toxicity. The model uses transformers to capture toxicity-specific features directly from the chemical structures and deep neural networks to predict effect concentrations. The model showed high predictive performance for all tested organism groupsโ€”algae, aquatic invertebrates and fishโ€”and has, in comparison to commonly used QSAR methods, a larger applicability domain and a considerably lower error. When the model was trained on data with multiple effect concentrations (EC50/EC10), the performance was further improved. We conclude that deep learning and transformers have the potential to markedly advance computational prediction of chemical toxicity.”

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.17.537138v1

John

Energy Neurolinguistics Quantum Relations Health Philosophy of Science Australia๐Ÿฆ˜๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

1 I do not include rockets and satellite telemetry in this discussion – by expenditure alone let alone pollution and the generation of millions more tonnes of carbon and other disastrous global heating gases, it steals from the wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon 1961 French Algeria specifically) AND EVERY YOUNG FAMILY OTHER THAN THE CHILDREN OF THE RICH – who will inevitably as the world stands this day pay a lethal personal price in any case.

The Guttering Candle: How Free Trade “Economists” Trashed Science

1) First a @Nature presentation

Sarcasm Alert ..this conceivably yet another New Word Order/ Mission Accomplished document to be used as an educational tool for as-yet undecided United States of America and other voters.. In this case it would appear that the company Colossal will be able to complement George Walker Bush’s 2004 saving of the site of the Garden of Eden – the junction of the Tigris and Euprates rivers – with the help of the genocidal Basra assault led by an Australian – for his, Blackwater’s, Haliburton’s et cetera’s children, their children’s children and their children’s children’s children and assist with the loading of a pair of these creatures – or at least a companionable couple in modern-era identity politics terms – and notwithstanding climatic reslience questions activists claim may affect animals from Far East Russia in southern Iraq – so it’s been hot, OK, we get you – onto any ark that hoves into view should the need arise.

“Colossalโ€™s landmark de-extinction project will be the resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth – or more specifically a cold-resistant elephant with all of the core biological traits of the Woolly Mammoth. It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the Mammothโ€™s extinction.

“AND THIS CORE VALUE CANNOT BE OVERSTATED:

“THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH IS A VITAL DEFENDER OF THE EARTH.”

Readers really should also examine the other offerings of the now equally compartmentally atomised deracinated @NewScientist magazine to get at least some intelligent reckoning of what ecocide-by-default #Science under barking-mad money-tree neoliberal and neofascist governments is about. Its topics today are functionally drivel – which would of course be manageable in the micro, at the level of an individual editor or a board of management personned by Bill Nyes, Sheldon Coopers, Elon Musks, Gyro Gearlooses and perhaps a gaggle of Trumpite podcasters snorting white powder in one back corner and intense United Auto Workers (Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Workers of America & sthn Ontario) in the other, just snorting, perhaps, or at least being indignant in a powerfully impressive fashion – although delighted by Joe Biden’s generous support for the continued mass production of oil & gas driven trucks & autos into the late 2040s.

2) So yes, a New Scientist magazine1A article follows..

The world just experienced the hottest February on record

“February was the ninth month in a row to set a global heat record, with global average temperatures 1.77ยฐC above the pre-industrial average for the month ..by James Dinneen 7 March 2024

A bird in branches during a forest fire in Santiago, Chile
Chile experienced a severe wildfire earlier this yearZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy

“The planet just experienced the hottest February on record, with global average temperature rising 1.77ยฐC above the pre-industrial average for the month, according to a bulletin from the European Unionโ€™s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). That makes it the ninth month in a row to set a monthly heat record.

โ€œAs remarkable as this might appear, it is not really surprising as the continuous warming of the climate system inevitably leads to new temperature extremes,โ€ said Carlo Buontempo at C3S in a statement.

“Europe saw particularly anomalous heat in February, with average temperatures rising 3.3ยฐC above the monthly average for 1991 to 2020. High temperatures and dry weather also drove fires in North and South America, including the deadliest wildfire in Chileโ€™s history, and conditions were unusually warm across much of the rest of the worldโ€™s land masses.

“The ocean heat was even more extreme, with average global sea surface temperature in February edging out August 2023 for the hottest month at sea on record. The average sea surface temperature of 21.09ยฐC recorded on a single day at the end of February was the hottest daily record, and sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic was below average.

Richard Allan at the University of Reading in the UK says the record heat both on land and in the oceans is primarily due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, combined with the warming influence of the El Niรฑo climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean. A reduction of reflective aerosols thanks to lower air pollution also contributed to the heat in some places, he says.

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“El Niรฑo, which emerged in June 2023 and helped make last year the hottest on record, is set to weaken and possibly give way to a cooler La Niรฑa by the middle of this year, according to the latest projection by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But that might not bring immediate respite. Historically, the year following El Niรฑoโ€™s emergence bears the brunt of its heating effects.”

My appreciation to Nature and New Scientist, as you’ll ALL no doubt accept that if information particularly concerning confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger Effect celebrity-, demagogue-, podcaster- & grifter Vanity-projects, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Egomania, 3rd Century CE Persian Manicheanism, False Equivalence, seemingly interminable Fallacies of Excluded Middles, erroneous belief in the broad, solopsist ratiocination in isolation of more than two or three others, grunting, Oxford Union debating postures, adoption of the Sid James 1960s Carry On film series Laugh,1 denial of the actual weather, tree-biting psycho-affective disorders categories 1 through 27, and – beginning innocently enough with Freudian parapraxes (minor dissequentia, mental crossovers, blanks, jumbles and occasional seniors’ moments) – racing along to that ever socially-awkward Megalomania, chronic repeat (acute) short-term recall-fail AND THEN to weakening peripheral field vision, bodily imbalance, uncoordination, echolalia, palilalia & echopraxia, and sadly on to slurring, discursive solecism laced with and and strung together by variously colorful, turgid and utterly bereft-of-intelligible meaning #ChatGPT or other regenerative cyborg intelligence Doing Words – transitive, intransitive, what the, nouns mostly Capitalised because let’s face it who can feel personally safe in a community or ecosystem of indefinite objects.. of adjectives phrases, clauses and slogans trawled from the A through F grade literature of the Engish speaking people’s since the Venerable Bede and Geoffrey Chaucere at wildly unsustainable expenditure of #energy and mind-blowing literal desertification of millions of hectares of land per fresh water used to stop the vast sheds full of jibbering, speech fail, long sleep, immobility and loss of consciousness, which is, er.. and helping our readers to discover and expose it is not free to all, and openly discussed in private and public spaces, not just to or by our helplessly angrily panicked and dangerously confused global political class operatives, then human society is for the dump by 2032.

We must immediately wind back hard on the burning of fossil fuels and abandon all derivatives market trading for the rich and the corporations designed expressly to excuse the burning of carbonaceous fuels including uranium past the point of global economy collapse, geopolitical chaos, the complete replacement of civil society by gangsterism, unsurviveable ambient heat over week-long periods, repeat ecosystem flooding and eutrophication, vast food crop failure, starvation and slaughters.

Carl Sagan & Anne Druyan

John Blundell

The new Neurolinguistics, 2-5 Set Quantum Relations Logic, Energy & EWEs, Human Health, Philosophy of Science Australia

1 Sarcasm Alert.. Woolly Mammoth and Australian Thylacine or “Tasmanian Devil,’ restoration projects are of course a perfect if heroic fit with the 2004 Basra genocide thus saving the Garden of Eden at the junction of the Tigris & Euprates rivers for George Walker Bush, his children, his children’s children and his children’s children’s children, for Haliburton, Blackwater PMC (Xe Services 2009, Academi 2011), Goldman Sachs, Blackrock and the great American people because with two of each cloned animal there wiil at least be two companionable androgynous or homosexual couples of them able to board a large ark should one be seen to be hoving into view, no? Oh. K-e-v-i-n, I suppose you think that’s Funny! Sorry Mother – stress at work. Bullshit.

1A https://www.newscientist.com

2 ‘Pseudoscience’ was a term presented to humanity (I believe – it does not matter ‘who the flying-fish’ first deployed it in undergraduate neoclassical debate, a PhD thesis or an article in The Atlantic for bored idle sexually-agitated affluent worried well: historicism and archivism are now the deadest of public and budget money-burning dead letters and in the presentation of meticulously ordered Harvard Programmed learnings in the deracinated neoliberal post World War II economic sans childhood sans household sans neighbourhood sans geo-community sans region sans country sans ‘planet’ and patently sans environment – Christ help us & ุงู„ู„ู‡ ุฃูƒุจุฑ – an abomination indeed before God and Mother Nature) in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, a 1995 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan and co-authored by Ann Druyan – his wife. Please catch this interview with her1A if you can.. at least hear Ms Druyan’s morally and emotionally uplifting baseline economic (Blundell, Australia 1995) transactional milieu C2 of the ever sanguine and often joyful collaborative adult couple and household C3 – immediate neighbourhood C4 integration (intergenerational familial) for a mental grasp and common social understanding of the vitality of which we must all thank Australian Englishwoman popular sociology writer and educator Germaine Greer 1970s. Until this, Australian and other literate teenagers were convinced that #Science or medical authorities had proven the old were not only cognitively impaired but socially, politically, economically and ecologically stupid or stupored to boot. – And catastrophically, 50 – 60 years on under rampant neoliberal and gangster Social Darwinist governments, a horrific 90% of all teens think that the only purposes of human life are to feed, fuck, fight, flee if threatened (that is afraid) and flummox (lie, prevaricate, make speeches or rude or silly noises like an ABC comedian, cheat, steal, make stuff up and, would you not know it, dear gentle reader, in the very terms of this essay, bamboozle.

2A https://youtu.be/GANZoWHHLCk?si=zrQGixJ6CHBmQJFj the interview by Farhad Hossein a Bangladeshi, a global heating Climate Science educator.

3 sort-of Wahrk-wahrk wahrk phonetically

https://youtu.be/GANZoWHHLCk?si=M0jVAlRcT723TYxH Farhad Hossein interviewer, a man from Bangladesh and a man-made global heating educator.

Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and should stand up to rigorous questioning.

Themes

Sagan explains that science is not just a body of knowledge, but is a way of thinking. Sagan shows how scientific thinking is both imaginative and disciplined, bringing humans to an understanding of how the universe is, rather than how they wish to perceive it. He says that science works much better than any other system because it has a “built-in error-correcting machine”.[2]:โ€Š27โ€Š Superstition and pseudoscience get in the way of the ability of many laypersons to appreciate the beauty and benefits of science. Skeptical thinking allows people to constructunderstandreason, and recognize valid and invalid arguments. Wherever possible, there must be independent validation of the concepts whose truth should be proved. He states that reason and logic would succeed once the truth were known. Conclusions emerge from premises, and the acceptability of the premises should not be discounted or accepted because of bias.

What caused the death of Carl Sagan?

Pneumonia

Carl Sagan / Cause of death

Carl Sagan - Wikipedia

After developing myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62 on December 20, 1996.