tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12339127.post122561247744429217..comments2024-01-13T01:17:55.325-06:00Comments on Tom Nelson: More from James Powell, who could find only one dissenting paper last yearTomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08119241500221931600noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12339127.post-69889449741071009932014-01-25T15:23:37.079-06:002014-01-25T15:23:37.079-06:00I find the comments about continental drift astoni...I find the comments about continental drift astonishing. I well remember learning about it in geography at the age of 12 in the UK in the 1950s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12339127.post-73259899352881299972014-01-24T05:51:32.937-06:002014-01-24T05:51:32.937-06:00How would a skeptic get a paper published?
Only ...How would a skeptic get a paper published? <br /><br />Only recently we saw a whole journal shut down because of one paragraph that cast doubt on the orthodox position.<br /><br />I see similarities between AGW and mobilism and continental drift prior to the discovery of plate tectonics. <br /><br />S. J. Gould wrote that at Harvard, the PhD candidates and post-docs could not openly discuss the theory of continental mobility and did so only on the back stairs.<br /><br />For a term paper in the early 1960s I used vertical plate movement to do a geomorphological study of Saudi Arabia. I concealed the source of my inspiration because, although plate movements were known in the 1960's, you could mention them only in connection with vertical tilting of sub-continental blocks, not something as big as Saudi Arabia.<br /><br />Reaction to continental drift in America:<br />http://www.geoscience-environment.com/es767/background.htm<br /><br />References to continental drift in Science Magazine, 1923-1997:<br />http://www.geoscience-environment.com/es767/science.html<br /><br />Mobilism and continenatal drift: <br />http://www.geoscience-environment.com/es767/index_es767.htmlFrank Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17403044995764984391noreply@blogger.com