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Thick deposits of carbon have been discovered in New Zealand and elsewhere associated with the Cretaceous terminal event. Was this carbon from forests being consciously burnt?
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Professor Steven Rose in The Guardian expresses our sympathy for baby Charlotte Wyatt—blind, deaf, scarcely able to respond to the world around her, brain-damaged and in constant pain, but kept alive artificially. For her Christian parents, her life was worth preserving at any cost, even though no miracle could make Charlotte a child able to live without artificial aid. For her doctors, resuscitation could only worsen the child’s pain and misery. A judge was asked to be arbiter, and decided Charlotte should be allowed to die. Could anyone human have done otherwise?
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Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but are drawn tentatively. Hypotheses are framed so that they are capable of being disproved. A succession of alternative hypotheses is confronted by experiment and observation. Science gropes and staggers towards improved understanding. Proprietary feelings are offended when a scientific hypothesis is disproved, but such disproofs are recognized as central to the scientific enterprise. Pseudoscience is just the opposite. Hypotheses are framed so they are invulnerable to any experiment that offers a possibility of disproof, so even in principle, they cannot be invalidated. Practitioners are defensive and wary. Sceptical scrutiny is opposed. When the pseudoscientific hypothesis fails to catch fire with scientists, conspiracies to suppress it are blamed.
