Ryan Byrd’s Ramblings

You know what bugs me? I’ll tell you– bad science. What bugs me even more is when bad scientists trash talk others (let’s make fun of any one who believes in God, Mr Smarty Pants Richard Dawkins!)

Here are two examples:

1- Let’s measure really old stuff by radioactive decay. I’m not saying the earth is 6,000 years old. What I am saying is that it’s ludicrous for a scientist to claim the world is 4 bijillion years old by extrapolating radioactive decay numbers. I am not a scientist, but I do know that any measurements of radioactive decay must have been done in the last, say 150 years, any any numbers worth looking at, in only the last 20 years. I know, you are going to counter with “radioactive decay is CONSTANT, Ryan, didn’t you know?!?” No. I didn’t know and neither do you, ’cause breaking news from the FermiLab indicates that radioactive decay might not be constant at all.

2- The earth is heating up because we have temperature readings from the last 200 years*. Um, no we don’t. For the love people, where did thermometers come from in the 1800s? Edmund Scientific? People had to MAKE THEM themselves. How accurate do you think that process was? We’re claiming 1/2 of one degree increase and you’re going to talk to me about measurements made by homemade, mercury thermometers which likely have a error of measurement of greater than a degree?

And then we have food science/nutritionists who are constantly flip flopping (eat vitamins, no, don’t!, drink wine, drink coffee, caffeine is bad, fat is good, fat is bad, follow the food pyramid, drink gallons of water daily, milk is good, milk is bad, vegans rule!, vegans stink!,…)

UGGGHHHH!

* Dissolved CO2 is another thing