Younger Dryas Apocalypse - Sedgwick’s "Historic Error" Corrected :-) :-) :-) 09JUN2019

Younger Dryas Apocalypse - Sedgwick’s "Historic Error" Corrected :-) :-) :-)

Hi,
  It is utterly amazing what gets occasionally past peer-review.
According to the web page of Mediterranean Archaeology &
Archaeometry, articles submitted to this journal "...are subject
to a minimum of two external peer reviews." Obviously,
something went horribly wrong with the peer-review process
in the case of the below article.

Jaye, M., 2019. The Flooding of the Mediterranean
Basin at the Younger-Dryas Boundary. Mediterranean
Archaeology & Archaeometry, 19(1).
http://maajournal.com/Issues2019a.php and
http://maajournal.com/#mw999

At its bottom, there is a note on Jaye's web page at:
https://theworldwideflood.com/author/theworldwideflood/

"PS I submitted this essay in Nov 2017 to the National
Association of Scholars who declined to publish it because
it did not fit within our current editorial plans for Academic
Questions.???"

An earlier example of the abject failure of peer-review
in archaeology is:

Cholleti, E.R., Vaddadi, K. and Yadav, A.H.K., 2017.
Puratana Aakasha-Yantrika Nirmana Sadhanavasthu
(Ancient Aero-mechanical manufacturing materials).
Materials Today: Proceedings, 4(8), pp.7704-7713.

Apparently, the editors had a change of mind and the
"Ancient Aero-mechanical manufacturing materials"
paper was only a couple of months ago retracted.


RETRACTED: Puratana Aakasha-Yantrika Nirmana Sadhanavasthu
(Ancient Aero-mechanical manufacturing materials)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785317314001

Have fun,

Paul



Paul V. Heinrich

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Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain 09JUN2019

 Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain

Ditch the GPS. It???s ruining your brain.

By M.R. O'Connor, Washington Post. June 5, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ditch-the-gps-its-ruining-your-brain/2019/06/05/29a3170e-87af-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Inferring meaning where there is none by geologists 02JUN2019

Inferring meaning where there is none by geologists

Perceived connections: Inferring meaning where there is none
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/Dec-2018/Feature-3

Meaningless data are tough words to swallow. John Armitage and
Tom Coulthard argue that Earth scientists must face up to the fact
that some observations might be an aggregation of seemingly
random events, where there is no cause and effect.

Papers

Armitage, J. & Coulthard, T., Perceived connections: Inferring
meaning where there is none. Geoscientist 28 (11), 18-21, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1144/geosci2018-030

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/Geoscientist/2018/December%202018/F3_Dec%202018.pdf?la=en


Falk, R. and Konold, C., 1997. Making sense of randomness: Implicit
encoding as a basis for judgment. Psychological Review, 104(2), p.301-318
https://www.srri.umass.edu/publications/falk-1997msr/

https://www.srri.umass.edu/sites/srri/files/FalkKonold1997/index.pdf


A related editorial well worth finding and reading is:

Wright, V.P., 2019. Memes, False News, and the Death of Empiricism.
Journal of Sedimentary Research, 89(4), pp.310-311.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres/article-abstract/89/4/310/570050

Yours,

Paul H.