I have a history with Andy Revkin's DotEarth, which is prone to provide fuel
for sloppy thinking about weather and climate, as well as a hangout for the worst kind of clever - looking phony skeptic arguments.
Assuming both of these work is
just sloppy thinking or emotionalism and has nothing to do with integrative thinking.
Readers can't know to what degree the document's apparent rubber - stamping of the culture of death was intended by its authors, or to what degree it simply follows
from sloppy thinking and careless rhetoric.
As impatient
with sloppy thinking as he was with adulation, Crick «didn't suffer fools gladly,» says researcher Al Seckel.
It may look
like sloppy thinking when we jump to a conclusion or follow a gut feeling, but our mental shortcuts turn out to be astonishingly successful.
Edgy and skeptical, Plait stays true to his mission:
fighting sloppy thinking and tearing fake science to shreds in a fun, informative way.
But the poetry that results from mixing different kinds of language, disappears
into sloppy thinking, when we imagine that these differences can ever be solved harmoniously; or even worse, when we forget that these realities we are mixing are of a beautiful and often cruel indifference towards each other.»
The point is that these limitations seem to create some
real sloppy thought patterns in climatology.
Just to give you an idea of the kind of
inconsistent sloppy thinking you're up against; The other day a winger explained to me that climate change hasn't been «proven» so spending millions of dollars on it is not warranted.
That for - profits aren't all bad, educators aren't all angels, the ability to disagree civilly is a virtue, good intentions are no excuse
for sloppy thinking, transparency is a virtue, jargon should not be mistaken for expertise, healthy markets are a powerful mechanism for channeling human ingenuity, and research rarely offers conclusive answers to the most important questions.
It's
very sloppy thinking to assume that one factor is driving all the changes in behavior of a variable one is trying to study — esp.
Given that
sloppy thinking and a general disregard for the importance of detail and fact are attributes of a non-scientific mindset, I'm somehow not surprised.
Such satire helps expose self - importance and can even help check things such as corrupt or
sloppy thinking.
Mr. Mock accuses me of
sloppy thinking, but doesn't say wherein the sloppiness lies.
It's not news, it's a revelation of
the sloppy thinking of a free - lancer.
Code is Contract proponents consider such arguments a poor excuse for
sloppy thinking and have developed so - called «smart contracts» which make use of the distributed ledger technology behind Bitcoin to automatically determine not only when there's an obligation to pay, but also effect the payment, in an increasing number of financial transactions.