The Nowcast Fallacy
1 May 2020
This is an opinion piece. That is, it is my opinion. Some of you may feel that I am wrong. If so, you are welcome to disagree. Please feel free to express your own views in the next issue of this magazine.
Articles tagged with "growth"
Women Stranded at Sea for 5 months
5 November 2017
Two women in a yacht were rescued this week, adrift a long way off the coast of Japan. Their story is that they left Honolulu for Tahiti, and immediately hit a storm which damaged their boat. After drifting for 6 months at sea, and being attacked by sharks, they were eventually rescued by the US Navy.
Apocalypse soon: Unwarranted skepticism and the growth fetish
1 February 2010
The dire predictions of the Club of Rome's 1972 report on_ The Limits to Growth _have supposedly been refuted by subsequent studies, but the refutations have serious shortcomings. This article is based on a presentation to the NZ Skeptics 2009 conference in Wellington, 26 September.
The low-down on “mushroom rings”
1 November 1990
The following may interest those who hesitate at the idea of "mushroom rings" being evidence of UFO landings—or of fairy shindigs.