Geoscientific Urban Legends

Geoscientific Urban Legends

DISCUSSION “[A well-trained rationalist] will obey the mental image of his master, he will conform to the standards of argumentation he has learned, he will adhere to these standards no matter how great the confusion in which he finds himself, and he will be quite...
Accounting for a Mobilistic Earth

Accounting for a Mobilistic Earth

A Personal History of the Remagnetization Debate “Neither science nor rationality are universal measures of excellence. They are particular traditions, unaware of their historical grounding”. Paul Feyerabend, in: Against Method (1988, p. 231) “Nearly all scientific...
A History of the Earth’s Seawater

A History of the Earth’s Seawater

Transgressions and Regressions “We do not have a simple event A causally connected with a simple event B, but the whole background of the system in which the events occur is included in the concept, and is a vital part of it”P.W. Bridgman, in: The Logic of Modern...