Re: [asa] Global Warming Stats

These were included by Copernicus. Kepler got the orbits right. But
Ptolemy was also geocentric. Also the four elements and their
distribution in the universe/solar system; caloric as an element; oxygen
as acid-former; phlogiston; the four humors. I think all had some
evidence as backing. It's been a long time since I read part of Needham's
history of Chinese science, but I recall that there was quite a
combination of usage that fits scientific knowledge along with some wacky
stuff that came from Taoism. I think this applied to the extraction of
estrogen from horse urine. But there is surely more.
Dave (ASA)

On Mon, 26 May 2008 09:20:42 -0400 "David Opderbeck"
<dopderbeck@gmail.com> writes:
Ptolemian epicycles

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Randy Isaac <randyisaac@comcast.net>
wrote:

As I've mentioned previously, I continue to be interested in this claim
which one hears rather frequently. I think it may be true for casual,
untested assumptions. However, I'm trying to collect examples in cases
where the majority based its case on data that verified the specific
theory in question. Surely there must be some. Any candidates?

Randy

Lynn quoted:

"..In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was
wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be
right.

-- 
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology 
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