A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation
– Saki, from ‘The Square Egg’ (1924).
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“The science is settled”
“40 million are uninsured”
“Bush lied”
Yup. Sure seems to work on a lot of folks.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation
It also often leads to all kinds of difficulties and complications later, and as a consequence is generally a bad idea.
Pi being a good example.
Some would argue its necessary for a succesful marriage.
Truth and clarity are complementary.
– Niels Bohr
Perhaps that’s the rationale used by an IPCC author who wrote, “still considered inappropriate to show recent section of Briffa et al. series”.
@Rob Fisher
An interesting quote, but your link did not work out right.
I did find this blog post though, and the plot thickens.
http://www.climateaudit.org/?m=20070626
It may be useful for readers if you could re-post your link.
And for every complex problem there is a simple solution, which is usually completely wrong.
Some would argue its necessary for a succesful marriage.
I wonder if a marriage wherein the partners must be dishonest with each other in order for their lives to run smoothly can be called successful, or merely quiet.
Penelope Trunk would agree.
Terry Colon,
And for every complex problem there is a simple solution
The converse is also true, at least to NuLab.
Simon Gibbs: apologies; don’t know what happened there. Here is the URL:
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1792
(I think there is more I need to understand to know what it means; I’m working on it.)
Nils Bohr- awful programme on the BBC last night where some guy tried to demonstrate what a bunch of ‘lads’ the theoretical physicists were a hundred years ago; however, one interesting thought was that the Nils Bohr Institute was funded by Carlsberg Breweries.
Most encouraging.
An example of which is “Cannabis use causes psychosis” which is not what the research paper the media are referring to says at all.
pietr,
I have read your comments with interest since you pitched up. They very often come down to beer.
I shall promise to have a Carlsberg tomorrow in honour of Niels Bohr.
The quantum of beer being, naturally an Imperial pint.
In the bad old days of usenet, there was a saying that every thread posted by Americans would degenerate to being about guns, and every thread posted by the British would degenerate to being about Monty Python.
So does that mean Pietr is Australian?
The ironic thing is that Saki famously died in 1916 – see Wikipedia – but I suppose this is just a *little* inaccuracy.
It was published in 1924, alecm