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It's considered high seas, because the continent has been put off limits to territorial claims.
Some of these creeks have claims for 50 to 100 times more water than is actually in the stream.
There were claims of intimidation at the polling stations, of ballot boxes being stolen.
And what I hope to show is that unpicking the evidence behind dodgy claims isn't a kind of nasty, carping activity; it's socially useful.
Two of his wives were brought to him suffering from infertility and he cured them, three for evil spirits, one for an asthmatic condition and severe chest pain and two wives Ondijo claims he took for love, paying their families a total of 16 cows.
In 1994, Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein coauthored "The Bell Curve," an extremely controversial book which claims that on average, some races are smarter and more likely to succeed than others.
They needed to create a norm which said, when you do an experiment, you have to publish not just your claims, but how you did the experiment.
Especially because, I suspect, some of you may still be a little bit skeptical of the claims, I think it's important to just spend a little bit of time thinking about why we might be prone to globaloney.
So when this came up in my local shop, naturally I was curious about some of the research backing these claims.
Trial or no trial, these claims are front and center on their label right next to a picture of a brain.
But the promise of neuroscience has led to some really high expectations and some overblown, unproven claims.
So speaking of love and the brain, there's a researcher, known to some as Dr. Love, who claims that scientists have found the glue that holds society together, the source of love and prosperity.
Maybe someday we will, but until then, we have to be careful that we don't let overblown claims detract resources and attention away from the real science that's playing a much longer game.
"Solar Manifesto" by Hermann Scheer, in Germany, claims all energy on Earth can be derived, for every country, from solar energy and water, and so on.
He claims it's done based on a UNESCO study.
Now, these are big claims.
It also claims that all human societies develop in a linear progression towards a singular end.
Meta-narratives that make universal claims failed us in the 20th century and are failing us in the 21st.
But we have this persistent confusion between objectivity and subjectivity as features of reality and objectivity and subjectivity as features of claims.
And the bottom line of this part of my talk is this: You can have a completely objective science, a science where you make objectively true claims, about a domain whose existence is subjective, whose existence is in the human brain consisting of subjective states of sentience or feeling or awareness.
You can make objective claims about a domain that is subjective in its mode of existence, and indeed that's what neurologists do.
So we should be suspicious about the same sort of overblown claims of damage to national security from these kind of officials.
But sadly, these are fraudulent claims supported by dodgy science.
What I want to persuade you of today is of a very simple claim, which is that these debates are in a certain sense preposterous, because there is no such thing as religion about which to make these claims.
And if you think about claims about the nonexistence of things, one obvious way to try and establish the nonexistence of a purported thing would be to offer a definition of that thing and then to see whether anything satisfied it.
Darwin worried about the relationship between what he said and the truths of religion, but he could proceed, he could write books about his subject without having to say what the relationship was to the religious claims, and similarly, geologists increasingly could talk about it.
Now the fact is though, for most of us, most scientific claims are a leap of faith.
We can't really judge scientific claims for ourselves in most cases.
A physicist cannot tell you, despite the claims of some of them, whether or not tobacco causes cancer.
So, if even scientists themselves have to make a leap of faith outside their own fields, then why do they accept the claims of other scientists?
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