Thursday 25 April 2019

Pascal's Impartial Wager on Inconvenience


Huawei has been in the news rather a lot recently. Must admit I thought it was a Geordie company with a name like that.

Hay and I have decided to join the London climate protesters and engage in some direct activity - we're going to block our drive at the weekend and give ourselves some mild inconvenience.

I was thinking about the applicability of Pascal's Wager to climate change yesterday. While the wager fails the logic test for Christianity on many levels, it doesn't for anthropogenic climate change as the subject.


I hear the Countryside Alliance has started a petition calling for Chris Packham to be sacked from the BBC because he isn't impartial. Next they'll be calling for Sir David Attenborough to be sacked because he's not impartial. The mentality of some people is incredibly low. What ever happened to truth? Impartiality without enquiry, and especially balance, gives the breath of publicity to absolute nutters.

I signed a petition calling for not sacking Packham, which has more signatures than the Countryside Alliance one. There's even one for giving him a K.


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