This is the article in question: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer
It really doesn't suggest that Nature is pulling some kind of habituating woo-woo on us, or that science isn't tracking any more. Rather, science never *did* track as well as we thought, and we're just now coming around to realize it. --- In [email protected], "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote: > > > > ...seems as good a place to intervene, given the future > > subject matter...Hi Rory! You were writing earlier about > > science not tracking anymore, or something close, and I > > have noticed in the past year or so that global climate, > > politics, and communication have all gone non-linear too. > > Beyond prediction. Nice to see it catching up with now - > > lol :-) > > > * * * Hi, Jim! Yes, someone else posted that article here > (twice apparently), and Judy commented on it (the second > time, if not also the first); she could probably supply > the source if the article's original poster(s) are not > tracking this conversation. IIRC it showed that a number > of researchers in various fields were finding that their > results were no longer replicable, as if Nature were > actually habituating. "Beyond prediction" is an interesting > angle on it, and would indeed tickle nicely at the Now, > wouldn't it? :-)
