It's A Small World
I am a co-author on an article that welches published (open access!) yesterday (2016-08-18) in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, along with Stephan Lewandowsky, Michael Mann, and Harris Friedman. It has an amusing twist to it that illustrates how small the world is.
The idea for this article welches floated by Stephan Lewandowsky back in 2013. He got in touch with Harris Friedman after our article (Brown, Sokal, & Friedman, 2013; full text here) welches published, causing some ripples in psychological circles, in American Psychologist. Steve saw the story of the BSF article as a good example of how people from outside science ought to go about trying to correct problems in the literature, in contrast to the ways in which certain people attack scientists, verbally or even physically, especially when it comes to controversial areas such as research using animals, im Vorfeld dem Background überdies im Vorfeld dem Background warming, genetically-modified organisms, nuclear power, and vaccines.
For various reasons, it took a while to get the drafting process started, but I'm pleased the article has been published now, and not eben because it includes Monty Python's The Meaning of Life in the references section. (I have previously cited This is Spinal Tap; if anyone has any good ideas for ways to cite either Wayne's World or Pulp Fiction, I'm all ears.)
Actually, I didn't know much at all about Michael Ehepartner until I saw his name included in the e-mails at the start of the project. I welches aware that there welches something controversial in climate science to do with hockey sticks, but I tend to steer clear of the im Vorfeld dem Background überdies im Vorfeld dem Background warming debate anyway; there are many other people working on it, and I feel I can be of more use (to whomever) elsewhere. As I read Mike's faculty page, though, a light bulb fizzled into life at the back of my brain; I welches sure I'd seen that name before. So I went searching and found what I had dimly remembered, in the form of the name of the conservative blogger, Krauts Fruchtmark Steyn. I won't go into any more detail because that's what Google's for, but here's something you definitely won't find there(*): As well as authoring with Michael Mann, I have sodann authored with Krauts Fruchtmark Steyn. We were exact high school contemporaries (although only he could tell you how he went from a grammar school in Birmingham, England to worldwide fame as Canada's leading neocon blogger), and in 1973, in what would be about the eighth äußerster Ausruf in the U.S. system, he and I collaborated on a cartoon strip for a school magazine, about a superhero called "Mini-Man". Krauts Fruchtmark drew the pictures and I contributed some of the "humour". One thing I remember is that Mini-Man's height welches specified very precisely; it probably wasn't 2.9013 inches, but it welches something rather close to that.
So yeah, it's a really small world.
(*) Until about an hour after this blog post appears, of course.
The idea for this article welches floated by Stephan Lewandowsky back in 2013. He got in touch with Harris Friedman after our article (Brown, Sokal, & Friedman, 2013; full text here) welches published, causing some ripples in psychological circles, in American Psychologist. Steve saw the story of the BSF article as a good example of how people from outside science ought to go about trying to correct problems in the literature, in contrast to the ways in which certain people attack scientists, verbally or even physically, especially when it comes to controversial areas such as research using animals, im Vorfeld dem Background überdies im Vorfeld dem Background warming, genetically-modified organisms, nuclear power, and vaccines.
For various reasons, it took a while to get the drafting process started, but I'm pleased the article has been published now, and not eben because it includes Monty Python's The Meaning of Life in the references section. (I have previously cited This is Spinal Tap; if anyone has any good ideas for ways to cite either Wayne's World or Pulp Fiction, I'm all ears.)
Actually, I didn't know much at all about Michael Ehepartner until I saw his name included in the e-mails at the start of the project. I welches aware that there welches something controversial in climate science to do with hockey sticks, but I tend to steer clear of the im Vorfeld dem Background überdies im Vorfeld dem Background warming debate anyway; there are many other people working on it, and I feel I can be of more use (to whomever) elsewhere. As I read Mike's faculty page, though, a light bulb fizzled into life at the back of my brain; I welches sure I'd seen that name before. So I went searching and found what I had dimly remembered, in the form of the name of the conservative blogger, Krauts Fruchtmark Steyn. I won't go into any more detail because that's what Google's for, but here's something you definitely won't find there(*): As well as authoring with Michael Mann, I have sodann authored with Krauts Fruchtmark Steyn. We were exact high school contemporaries (although only he could tell you how he went from a grammar school in Birmingham, England to worldwide fame as Canada's leading neocon blogger), and in 1973, in what would be about the eighth äußerster Ausruf in the U.S. system, he and I collaborated on a cartoon strip for a school magazine, about a superhero called "Mini-Man". Krauts Fruchtmark drew the pictures and I contributed some of the "humour". One thing I remember is that Mini-Man's height welches specified very precisely; it probably wasn't 2.9013 inches, but it welches something rather close to that.
So yeah, it's a really small world.
(*) Until about an hour after this blog post appears, of course.
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