Observationally-sacrificed science by consensus, Peter Woit and Sean Carroll as archetypes, those willing to operate past some observationless threshold, which is why resistance from Woit-types can do no more than lead a horse to a different watering hole

In Nielsen-Ninomiya and the arXiv, archetype Peter Woit is waging war against all those crackpots. Well, not quite. He always shows respect for Sean Carroll.
Not that I’m calling Sean a crackpot. I don’t call anyone a crackpot. I’m thinking about Woit’s inconsistencies. With Woit, with the right credentials and right status, typically of more combined [...]

Evolutionist’s need to show definitive evidence of what supposedly has definitively already been shown to be true by science

The link: Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution (news.sky.com)
A quote:
Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years – but it was presented to the world today at [...]

One physicist surprisingly wonders how other physicists can claim that present research can recreate the big bang, an extrapolated event of the long past

In his post Physics Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Peter Woit shows that major establishment players exist who don’t accept the current, loose, establishment definition of science, or, who at least have a tighter personal definition of science, even though their personal definition may still be too loose.
Speaking of the phyics Nobel Laureate Martinus J. G. [...]

The speculative idea that the reason physicists can be made to look like idiots is because they are idiots

In Shouldn’t Something Be Done? and Science and Science Fiction, Peter Woit is displeased with the History Channel’s program Parallel Universes, and so he says,
I don’t really see how an intelligent person can watch this thing and not come away with the impression that theoretical physicists are a bunch of idiots.
In this post, I would [...]

Sean confusing the the past versus the present, confusing the general versus the specific

Sean’s logically-extended-science demands “science never proves anything,” because his “science” is primarily about the past, in comparison to Galileo’s science, which was all about the present.
In arxiv Find: A Realistic Cosmological Model…, Sean links to a past argument of his (the link is in the second paragraph of the quote below) that supposedly should convince [...]

The evolutionists’ rescue of the the collapse of science, in their dreams

Ed Darrell, Dave’s antagonist, Dave, the great admirer of the cuckold, but Ed comes to the rescue of science, in particular biology, lest it collapse as a consequence of the disbelief of evolution.
In the comments to Lysenko’s Legacy, Ed says,
Immediately we notice the Lysenkoist tactic of trying to separate genetics from biology, genetics from evolution, [...]

Institute for Creation Research moved to Dallas from Santee, California

The link: Creation college seeks state’s OK to train teachers
The institute was created in 1970 by the late Henry M. Morris, a Dallas native known as the father of “creation science,” the view that science – not just religion – indicates that a divine being created the Earth and all living things.

Sean’s experimental science in a space he can’t access

Well, okay, obviously Sean Carroll can’t conduct experiments in a space that he can’t access, but hold that thought.
Let’s get to the meat of what I want to highlight. In Arrow of Time FAQ, Sean says,
The arrow of time is hot, baby. I talk about it incessantly, of course, but the buzz is growing…
So, notwithstanding [...]

Shifting the problem down below “theory”

The link: Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law
 Creationists and intelligent-design boosters have a guerrilla tactic to undermine textbooks that don’t jibe with their beliefs. They slap a sticker on the cover that reads, EVOLUTION IS A THEORY, NOT A FACT, REGARDING THE ORIGIN OF LIVING THINGS.
This is the central argument of evolution [...]

Woit’s non-old-school definition of science requires hostility to philosophical extensions of science

In Peter Woit’s This Week’s Hype, there are links to subjects such as multiple universes and observations shortening the life of the universe.
And then Woit says,
A lot of this nonsense seems to be originating in Britain. Tomorrow at Cambridge University there will be a series of talks on God or Multiverse? that one can [...]