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From: RC Macaulay
Subject: [VO]: Balance vs. Bias
MC: Richard wrote, <snip>.
Carefully read the science comments contained in the link
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13559838/
which describes how weather causes the earth to wobble.The article is
written as a absolute fact because it makes senses and we must not disturb
the ignorant masses with imagination. There will be no other views permitted
because we are the great a terrible wizard of Oz.
Now consider the biased view that the earth may cause the weather to bobble.
No! Never! Silence! You would dare to question the great a terrible Wizard
of Oz? You peons! You ... err.. what are they called?? Vorts? ,, You
Vorts !! Silence, I will hear no more of this "cold Fusion". Silence !
MC: I'm not sure how carefully Richard read the article he is ridiculing.
The stated perturbations are in the range of centimeters, determined by GPS
technology, taken by an institute devoted to measuring the polar position,
in a period when larger known perturbations canceled each other out. The
weather systems and tides are massive and contain lots of energy, ultimately
driven by the Sun and Moon. The earth is oblate, not spherical. Were there
no fluid systems interacting with the rough surface of the planet, it is
unlikely that any perturbations of that short time scale would be seen at
all.
MC: Without seeing the cited journal paper, one can't conclude how the
investigators assigned causation, or merely noted that correlation exsists
and it was the science writer who chose the punchier headline.
Mike Carrell
Richard
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