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How does RIFM ensure scientific objectivity?

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The Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM) relies on several layers to help ensure the scientific objectivity of its work.

RIFM was founded in 1966 by half a dozen fragrance companies that wanted to ensure that people could safely enjoy their products.

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Finally, RIFM collaborates with others to ensure that our work is reproducible, which is essential for differentiating subjective impressions from objective data. For example, RIFM collaborated with the government of India’s Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) to have IITR scientists follow our Safety Assessment Criteria Document on four ingredients and see if their conclusions would match ours. Their results, published in their Annual Report for 2019-2020, were identical to ours for these four ingredients, confirming RIFM’s science-based safety assessment process.

RIFM Vice President Anne Marie Api, PhD, oversees RIFM’s Research Program, including collaborative efforts to ensure that robust exposure data inform the Safety Assessment Process.


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Orgel and Szostak introduced an amino group into 2′- and 3′-positions9, which enabled effective RNA copying due to acceleration of the ligation reaction10,11.

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…shorter L-aTNA fragments came together and linked up with each other on the longer L-aTNA template. Critically, this happened in the presence of a compound, called N-cyanoimidazole, and a metal ion, like manganese, both of which were possibly present in early Earth. The fragments interlinked when a phosphate at the end of one chemically attached to a hydroxyl group at the end of its neighbor, without the help of an enzyme.

The nonsense about early Earth and neo-Darwinian evolution sans God’s light-activated pH-dependent Creation of enzymes was never-ending, until 4/6/21
See: Direct detection of coupled proton and electron transfers in human manganese superoxide 4/6/21
God’s light-activated assembly of the microRNA-RNA-peptide nanocomplex was obviously required to link subatomic particles to what is known to intelligent serious scientists about biophysical constraints on the virus-driven degradation of messenger RNA.
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The manganese ion is capable of stealing an electron from a superoxide molecule, converting it to oxygen. This stolen electron can then be given to another superoxide to make hydrogen peroxide.

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God’s light-activated pH-dependent Creation of enzymes links His Creation of water from the potential of hydrogen (pH) to His Creation of all pH-dependent life on Earth. All biodiversity is constrained by the biochemical reactions. That fact was placed into the context of global biogeochemical constraints on the replication of viruses in the sunlit ocean.
Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean 5/22/15

The protistan parasites and mutualistic symbionts increase connectivity and complexity of pelagic food webs (66, 67) while contributing to the carbon quota of their larger, longer-lived, and often biomineralized symbiotic hosts, which themselves contribute to carbon export when they die.

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See: Not all coronaviruses are seasonal, contrary to pathologist Ryan Cole’s claim; COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing illness

Coronaviruses are all seasonal and go away on their own, including those that cause SARS and MERS; ivermectin is effective for preventing and treating COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccines are “gene therapy”, don’t give immunity or prevent transmission

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Misleading: Ryan implied that COVID-19 vaccines aren’t working because vaccinated people must still practice physical distancing and wear masks. This isn’t true. Because it is unclear how much the vaccines reduce transmission, vaccinated people need to practice physical distancing and wear masks to protect the unvaccinated people around them, who are the majority.

Unsupported: No reliable scientific evidence supports the claim that ivermectin is an effective treatment against COVID-19. Larger and better-designed studies are required to determine ivermectin’s effect on COVID-19 patients.

Systems incentivized to be corrupted by profiteers with no protection against corruption by intelligent serious scientists tend to get corrupted.

No conspiracy theory is required to explain how that fact led to overwhelming support for neo-Darwinian pseudoscientific nonsense and a relative lack of support for quantum Darwinism (light-activated protonated RNA interference), which biophysically constrains virus-driven pathology via the physiology of reproduction in Biblical Genesis.

For evidence of corruption by profiteers and pseudoscientists, see: Dr. Ryan Cole – Covid Mistakes https://www.bitchute.com/video/hfzL5gUeQvxr 3/19/21

I’m a American Society for Clinical Pathology emeritus status medical laboratory scientist who knows Dr. Cole is telling the truth about vitamin D deficiency.

Facebook does not want anyone, including me, to share this, and they include this threat:

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Pages and websites that repeatedly publish or share false news will see their overall distribution reduced and be restricted in other ways.”

Twitter would not let me Tweet this:

Vitamin D vs. mRNA-directed gene therapy. Inform yourself and remember that former President Trump linked sunlight and humidity to the pH-dependent weakening of the coronavirus.

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Global Seasonality of Human Coronaviruses: A Systematic Review”  makes FB fact-checkers who reported on Ryan Cole’s claims appear to be liars, and it allows shadow banning at Twitter to contribute to to the cause of unnecessary suffering and premature death.

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1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
January 28, 2022 - February 5, 2022

Non-Decorative Wall Light is a video installation first realized in 2018. It originated from the artist’s studio space. Going into the studio and working became a repetitive day-to-day life. The creation of art turned into mundanity. By interacting with the existed common objects in the space, the daily actions transform into performances that evoke the appreciation of everyday life.

This iteration adapts the work to the idiosyncratic space of Roman Susan. The installation consists of three parts, including Automatic Plant Watering System, Self Sufficient Projector, and Wireless Window Opener. Visitors are welcome to stay for an extended time to enjoy the stillness of both videos and life. Non-Decorative Wall Light was on view directly from the street after dark.

Rui Sha is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily works in the fields of sculpture and new media. She grew up in Beijing and worked as a furniture designer there before moving to Chicago, where she completed an MFA degree in Art and Technology Studies at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in places such as Elastic Art in Chicago, Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, and CICA Museum in Gimpo, Korea. Sha has previously shared work at Roman Susan through the exhibition Floating in a Room of Water with Saebom Yang in 2020. For more information, please visit


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A weekend of #WP7 use – first impressions, comparison to #iPhone

I wrote on Friday about my switch from iPhone to Windows Phone 7. I am now a proud (really proud) owner of a Samsung Focus Windows Phone from AT&T. (side note: see how easy it is to refer to Windows Phone? No need to say Windows 7 Phone, Windows Phone 7 Phone, Windows Mobile 7, Windows 7 Mobile, etc. Just go with Windows Phone. That easy)

I had talked about what I use on the iPhone and here is my list of things I have done on my Windows Phone:

  1. First and foremost, I cleaned up my hotmail contacts and also hooked up facebook, flickr, linkedin, yelp, wordpress, and more. (This was done earlier, in anticipation of my move to Windows Phone.)
  2. I signed in with my Live ID and set up my personal account (google apps) for email, hotmail for contacts and email, facebook for contacts, photos and feeds, other gmail for email and calendar. All went well and in a few moments my phone was being “lit up” with information from various places that I did not even have to care about.
  3. I downloaded the common, popular apps like:
    1. YouTube
    2. Facebook
    3. Twitter
    4. Seesmic
    5. Adobe Reader
    6. Breaking News
    7. DirecTV
    8. Fandango
    9. Flixster
    10. Foursquare
    11. Last.fm
    12. IMDb
    13. iheartradio
    14. Netflix
    15. Shazam
    16. Slacker Radio
    17. TED
    18. UStream Viewer
    19. Weatherbug
  4. Then I went and downloaded a bunch of games from the Marketplace – happens to be that most of the games (perhaps all) are XBOX Live enabled. I am not an XBOX user yet so I was aslo able to set up my own XBOX Live Avatar.
  5. Most of the games I downloaded, had a trial mode and I did go with the trial mode for those games. I have converted to paid on a few games already. Trial mode is simply fantastic, especially for games and especially for kids games where I can see if it is going to fly with the kids or not and then decide to put the $ down.

As you can see most of the big, common apps are already there and I am really not missing a beat.

I can say my needs are completely met (and exceeded in a lot of cases) except the following apps/scenarios:

  1. Corporate email. Of course, my iPhone was a huge factor in my corporate email/calendar management. I am going to miss this feature the most. However there are multiple things to consider here – I have an iPad which is provisioned for corporate email and calendar, so I can use that when I am not at work. Also, it is only a matter of time before Windows Phone gets the at-rest encryption which will then make it feasible to get corporate email on it. Not a huge concern, in general.
  2. Notifications. Even though Windows Phone provides multiple types of notifications (toaster alert like the SMS app does, Live Tiles like the Weatherbug app does and push notifications), common apps like facebook and twtter/seesmic have not implemented any notification method yet. This is an app maker’s problem so I am positive the next iterations of these apps will take care of this issue. However I like the simplicity and features of Boxcar and I hope they get their app over to Windows Phone.
  3. ESPN. I did not realize how much I used the ESPN ScoreCenter app on the iPhone. This weekend I wanted to keep track of multiple close Pac-10 football games and the website was simply not as efficient as the app is. I wish this app comes really fast and given how cutting edge ESPN has been until now, I don’t doubt at all that a sexy-looking app is coming soon.
  4. HippoRemote. For now I am not concerned much because the iPad takes care of it.
  5. Amazon. Again, like ESPN I feel the app is much more efficient to use than the website and again, I am pretty sure these guys will release the app soon.
  6. In-browser videos/flash-HTML5. This is quite an annoyance because even browsing to the ESPN website for example, from the iPad, plays videos in the page because they have made those videos HTML5-compliant. But the mobile IE browser does not support HTML5 and Windows Phone does not support flash or silverlight in the browser. So this is truly something I have to wait for Microsoft to deliver, hopefully in their next update.
  7. Another big problem in the OS is that it cannot connect to wireless networks that are hidden. I do not broadcast my SSID and now I have to, hopefully again, only up to the upcoming update.

On the other hand, there are plenty of small things on the phone that made my smile. Simple stuff like the back button – I opened twitter, clicked on a tweet which had a link, clicked on the link and opened the browser. After I was done reading, I closed the browser and clicked the back button and I came back to the opened tweet in twitter. Small thing, but so cool.

Another thing – the voice command and voice search is FANTASTIC. I have not had a single incorrect interpretation of my voice command. Love it.

I could go on and on about how awesome the phone is, but this post is not about that. As you can see, the switch from the iPhone is going to be a good one and hopefully in the upcoming WP7 update as well as some of the app updates (or releases) most of my pending concerns would be addressed.

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  1. Anjin L. says:

    Im looking towards getting the Samsung focus, for now i have the Htc surround and the battery life is my main reason for considering leaving it. I’ve done all the email sync’ing changes and such to increase it which it did but after 8 hours it requires a charge and im not happy about that. I’m hoping the Focus can at-least make it till bedtime.

  2. Anjin L. says:

    Romit what is normal usage for you? I’ve actually gotten attached to this htc phone and i might just wait it out till a extended battery is available.

  3. Romit Mehta says:

    Anjin: Normal usage is about 5-10 phone calls per day of less than 5 minutes. Data usage limited to emails and twitter. Twitter usage very high. I am in good at&t coverage at home, at work and everywhere in between so signal strength is not an issue. Hope this helps.

  4. Anjin L. says:

    Thank you. Well after a few weeks now and some more research, appearently the htc surround battery life improves with use and time to which i can vouch for. I pretty much a full days worth og phone. Thank you for your input and this phone is great!!!

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September 17, 2018

The full lunch has gone up to $15.  This week it was beef hash or swiss chicken with spice cake for dessert.  President for now Brad Mettam called on Pat Folkins to lead the flag salute.  Lynn our newest Blue Badger gave the invocation.  J Warren Hockaday texted that he is now cancer free but still needs to regain his strength. Keith Crossley is still recovering from his stroke. John Winzler is in the hospital.

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Raffle tickets are available for the Foundation dinner Sat. 9/20. Patrick Cleary was named Rotarian of the week.  Pedals for Polio, a fund-raising bike ride from Ft. Bragg to Lakeport will be held October 2nd.  $100 donation gets you a riding shirt made from polypropylene.

Our presenter for the day was Nick Wilczek, head of the Humboldt county Library.  He said, “every job is a service job”.  He used to be in the hospitality business.  His last job was at the Arcata branch library.  The Humboldt County has 24 branches and a bookmobile. Last year they circulated 984,000 books.  He had a quote:  Bad libraries build collections-good libraries build services, and great libraries build communities.  You can order books from the internet at Zip books for a dollar and return them to the library after you’ve re read them. If you have a library card you can go to and get e-books for your kindle.


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Meet your Governors

Sanitary napkins & Happy Schools, his priority

V Thirupathi Naidu,  Builder, RC Hospet, RID 3160

Empowerment of girls is the top focus of his district’s clubs. “RC Gulbarga Midtown will be setting up a sanitary napkin plant in Gulbarga with a production capacity of 2,500 units per month, costing ₹10-12 lakh. We will distribute sanitary pads at our MHM awareness sessions in schools and special camps,” says Thirupathi Naidu. Next in his priority list is Happy Schools; at least 25-30 government schools will be refurbished and given a range of amenities such as handwash units, toilet blocks, and classroom furniture. “Here also we will concentrate more on girls’ schools in rural areas and taluks.”

Two pathology labs will be set up at Hospet and Sandur taluks (GG: ₹25–30 lakh each). The technicians manning these labs will forward the reports to doctors at the referral hospitals and get consultations for patients, says Naidu. With growing demand in Hospet, a blood bank will be constructed through a Term Gift. “We will be flagging off an ambulance worth ₹25 lakh consisting of ICU and modern life-support systems that will provide emergency medicare in this region.”

Comprising 12 zones, the district has 76 clubs with 2,400-plus members. Naidu is confident of inducting 500 new Rotarians and chartering at least 12 new clubs.

Each club will hold 4–5 medical camps for underprivileged families in rural and urban areas. On the Rotaract front, “according to official records, there are only 117 Rotaractors in 17 clubs. I will be chartering at least 34 new Rotaract clubs and hope to induct 500 Rotaractors through the year,” he adds. Already a number of clubs — RCs Gulbarga South, Raichur Krishna Tunge, Koppal, Kavali and Rajanpet — have exceeded the EOBO target for the year, he says, adding,
“RI President Mehta’s Do more, grow more is critical to increase our global number from 1.2 million. Rotary districts in India can easily double their membership to 100,000 by the end of this year.” His TRF target for the year is $500,000. Influenced by Rtn N Seshagiri, his builder-friend, he joined his home club in 1991.

He aspires to be a ‘membership champion’

Santanu Kumar Pani Educationist, RC Balasore, RID 3262
Santanu Kumar Pani, Educationist, RC Balasore, RID 3262

To add 2,000 new members is a challenge, says Santanu Pani, who has already formed 10 new clubs against the target of 60. “I’d like to be known as membership champion. We will induct 500 women members and form seven all-women’s clubs,” he says. Set up at the district camp office, the Rotary Training Academy imparts basic knowledge about Rotary and its hierarchy to new Rotarians and updates old members and PDGs about the latest developments at RI. District trainer PDG Sibabrata Dash heads this centre.

Soon, 10 satellite vison care centres (GG: ₹80 lakh) will be attached to the four Rotary Eye Hospitals (REH). The satellite centres will function as OPDs to Rotary and government hospitals. Pani has identified 98 unrepresented rural areas across Odisha to set up clubs and find members. He chartered RC Sunrise Arunachal, RID 3240, in October. Two dental-screening vans (Rs 1 crore) and a mobile cancer detection unit (Rs 1.5 crore) will be launched shortly through a GG and CSR funds. A dental clinic was attached to the Balasore REH recently.”

He plans to start 50 new Rotaract clubs, 500 Interact clubs and 100 RCCs, and add 500 new Rotaractors. For TRF, he is striving to collect $100,000, “but it is really hard to convince our members to contribute more to the Foundation,” he says. About 20,000 government school teachers will be trained, and 12 Swabhimaan centres will reach out to 10,000 adult illiterates this year. A former Rotaractor, he joined RC Jeypore in 1998, moved to Delhi in 1994 and returned and joined RC Balasore in 2003,” he adds.

‘Bifurcate the district for better administration’

Dr Mohan Shyam Konwar Paediatrician, RC Tinsukia, RID 3240
Dr Mohan Shyam Konwar, Paediatrician, RC Tinsukia, RID 3240

Due to the vastness of the Northeast region and its diversity, Rotary clubs are “far and few here, giving poor visibility. My focus is to have at least one club in each town of Assam for, at present, more than 50 per cent of district headquarters don’t have a representation from Rotary,” says Dr Mohan Konwar. He wants the RI district to be bifurcated for effective administration. With 101 clubs and 3,500-plus Rotarians, he wants to net a 15 per cent growth in membership and charter 15 new clubs. “A new eye clinic (GG: $200,000) will be opened soon at the Kuntal Goswami Memorial Trust Hospital in Guwahati which already has a Rotary blood bank and physiotherapy unit.” The district has applied for a global grant to set up a mega blood bank at Sibsagar. At his home town Tinsukia, the Rotary Community Centre will house a physiotherapy unit. Konwar has instructed clubs to implement at least one Happy School project. His target for TRF giving is $400,000.

During official club visits, he says, “I have to travel 3–4 days to reach the destinations as connectivity is an issue in the NE region. It took me three days to reach Durgapur, West Bengal, from my place, Tinsukia.” The chartering of RC Sunrise Arunachal has opened new opportunities for Rotary, he says. “The first attempt to start a club in Arunachal 7–8 years ago was not successful, as it was shut down within a few months.” PDG Kirti Ranjan Dey inspired him to join Rotary in 2001.

From Annett to district governor

W M Nirmal Raghavan School admin, RC Ranipet, RID 3231
W M Nirmal Raghavan, School admin, RC Ranipet, RID 3231

As a 15-year-old Annett, Nirmal Raghavan was exposed to Rotary values when his father Mahendra Varman joined Rotary in 1996. Now at 40, as district governor “I’m inspired by RI President Mehta to take up ambitious projects such as creating 100 urban forests based on Miyawaki technique; setting up one lakh RWH pits at schools, hospitals and public buildings; and Project Vidiyal (change) in which 500 vendors will get push carts.” Fifteen lakh saplings and one crore bamboo seeds are being used for creating social forestry. Both urban forests and RWH units are being funded through member contributions, DDF and sponsorships. Push carts have been bought through a mix of GG ($60,000), DDF and member contributions. All the 97 clubs with 3,650-plus members have resumed in-person meetings and field projects, he says. Raghavan will induct 1,500 new Rotarians and charter 30 new clubs. “We are having only 28 active Rotaract clubs with around 400 Rotaractors; I will double the number of Rotaractors and form 50 new Rotaract clubs.”

A two-day badminton tournament saw the participation of 80 teams from seven RI districts at the Ranipet Sipcot complex. His target for TRF giving is $500,000. His father, a charter member and current president of RC Walajapet, and mother Mallika, past president of Inner Wheel Club of Ranipet, have “deeply etched the spirit of social service in me since childhood,” he says. His spouse Nandhini is a charter member of Rotary E-club of Ranipet. Raghavan is also a board member of RILM and “I am very much attracted to this noble initiative of Mehta to usher in 100 per cent literacy in India.” He was influenced by PDG C R Chandrabob to join Rotary in 2009.

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'Pope Nazi', cognitive bias and intellectual myopia

First of all, seeing as we’re on the topic of bias, I’ll make a disclaimer relating to the content of this post.

Andrew Bolt, whose work is criticised in this post, is a member of my extended family.

I’ve never met him in person, our paths merely having been near misses. But outside of my own family nucleus, his sister’s household is easily the family residence I frequent the most. She’s a good person and her husband, a cousin of mine, is almost a brother to me.

This compromises me in some ways. On occasion, I’ve consciously withdrawn from discussion of his writing, simply because things became too personal. I have an unwillingness to generate any ill-feeling in the family, and that includes Andrew.

I suspect I’d be more excoriating if I didn’t have this association.

When you come to something with different preconceptions, you can’t always be guaranteed to walk away with the same conclusions.

Something to keep in mind when considering what I’m writing here.

‘Pope Nazi’

A prominent atheist at a prominent convention of atheists, using the words ‘Pope’ and ‘Nazi’ in the same sentence, was bound to cause a stir. Independently, both words can provoke preconceived notions that can frame a discussion before one even knows what’s being discussed.

I’ve been going to write a post about the whole ‘Pope Nazi’ affair since earlier this the week when the misquotes first became apparent. Like Andrew, I didn’t go to the convention. In undertaking an analysis of the media reporting of the convention, I’ve relied upon correspondence with a number of convention goers – notes for a book I’m trying to write. Given my methodology, I thought it prudent not to go with first appearances or accounts.

When I first heard of the words ‘Pope’ and ‘Nazi’ being uttered by Dawkins, an account that Barney Zwartz of The Age appeared gob-smacked in response, and having seen this kind of thing happen before, I expected confusion. That’s how I framed the issue in my mind from the outset – those were my expectations.

The emerging response was for a number of journalists to report that Richard Dawkins had called Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi. Tracey Spicer, Barney Zwartz, Melanie Phillips, and importantly, Andrew Bolt, amongst others, reported this as fact. As it turned out, this was wrong.

Andrew, in spite of the evidence of his error, has once again dug in his heels.

How does Andrew swat aside criticism of his mistake this time? In responding to a video of the alleged slur, Andrew expressed incredulity at The Australian Skeptics for not seeing Dawkins ‘sneering’ at Pope Benedict XVI. Going on to say…

“Which only proves that these sceptics aren’t sceptical at all in rushing to believe what suits them best. A sad case of confirmation bias, I’m afraid, but we’ve already seen on Insiders how non-sceptical the Skeptics really are when it comes to their preferred faiths, such as global waming (sic).”

(Andrew Bolt, ‘None so blind as the atheist who will not see‘, 2010)

I’m sure this will go down well with the atheophobes in Andrew’s audience who insist that us Godless types are just rebelling against an apparently self-evident God. (If not the creationists, history and climatology deniers that make up a good portion of Andrew’s audience).

Andrew is being bloody-minded. The video clearly shows Dawkins briefly listing people who are in line for canonisation such as Mary MacKillop, and when he gets to Pope Pius XII, who was controversially elevated to ‘Venerable’ last year, he falters with his name and off-the-cuff, being pressed for an answer, finishes off with ‘Nazi.. whatever…’ after stumbling with ‘Pope…’ The ‘sneer’ is imaginary; ‘cheer’ would seem a more accurate interpretation of the tone from where I’m sitting.

Watch it yourself.

For pity’s sake, being recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church is official recognition that someone is in Heaven – Pope Benedict XVI isn’t even dead yet. How on Earth could Prof. Dawkins be talking about Benedict XVI? He was talking about Pius XII – the WWII Pope who refused to condemn, or officially recognise the genocide even when it was reported to him by his own clergy.

Accurate? There is enough established history to make this a fair off the cuff remark. To go into minutiae over this is to take the remark far too literally.

The best rhetoric? No.

But imperfect delivery of off-the-cuff rhetoric, isn’t want Dawkins is being charged with. Andrew is alleging barbarism!

My interest in all of this is not to defend Richard Dawkins. He’s quite able to do that himself if he feels the need. Being in the process of writing a book about the misrepresentation of atheists (with sections dedicated to how prominent atheists are misrepresented to draw inferences about atheists more generally) my interest should be clear; if I’m defending anyone, I’m defending atheists against misrepresentation.

Andrew, and others, have used the misquote to draw inferences about attendees at the atheist convention.

Interestingly enough, Andrew mentions cognitive bias. Before I even read this tripe from Andrew, I wanted to talk about cognitive bias in relation to the misquote. So let’s talk about cognitive bias.

Cognitive bias

Upon waking on Monday, I found I had a series of tweets directed at me, a friendly challenge for me to defend Prof. Dawkins; which I did at some length (albeit somewhat facetiously). I needed more information before drawing a conclusion. At this point, I didn’t even know which Pope Prof. Dawkins was addressing as ‘Pope… Nazi… Whatever…’.

Even if he’d called Pope Benedict XVI ‘Pope Nazi’, I didn’t think it impossible that he was being facetious, or otherwise not actually alleging that Benedict XVI was a Nazi. Improbable, perhaps, but not entirely impossible in my opinion. So I waited for more details.

As events unfolded during the week, new details arose, I was scooped on the early reporting of the ‘Pope Nazi’ misquote by the talented young Jason Ball (who unlike myself, was actually at the event), so my focus shifted towards analysis more focused on how these mistakes could be made, what and who they served, and their consequences. (I’ll still be researching this well after I’ve published this post).

Then Andrew went and plonked himself in the middle of the issue. I’d rather it was someone else.

Before the misquote story broke, in questioning a number of people who attended the convention, something interesting became apparent. The people I questioned were all atheists. They were all non-hostile to Prof. Dawkins. I’m left with the impression that these people were able to receive Dawkins in good faith.

Yet, from memory, all bar one thought Dawkins was talking about Pope Benedict XVI.

Now this sample of people who I interviewed wasn’t large enough to draw reliable inferences about the views of all or even  people at the convention. I don’t pretend to know the distribution of the views of the entire population of convention goers. (It may be informative for future events of this kind to poll attendees on a range of issues – if only to counter media misinformation).

But this doesn’t mean that no implications can be drawn. I think that this exercise shows that it is at least conceivably possible for people to misinterpret these things even with the best of intentions, and even when witnessing them first hand. A group polarisation effect perhaps?

In alerting Andrew to the mistake that he’d made, Ben Pobjie (who Andrew, with some cheek, refers to as ‘reader Ben Pobjie’ – Ben’s a talented writer of satire) wrote:

“Obviously, your opinion is your opinion and I’d never question your right to it, but since it’s pretty clear that you are incorrect about the “Pope Nazi” reference (and having been at the conference myself, I can confirm that your interpretation was incorrect), it would be very gracious of you to publish a correction in your next column.

It’s perfectly understandable you got this wrong, of course, because Prof. Dawkins’s remarks were reported wrongly across the media – but now that you know, I’m assuming you will be keen to correct the misconception.”

(Ben Pobjie, 2010)

As Michael Shermer sometimes likes to point out, we’re all human and we all have biases. The group of convention attendees I questioned makes this quite clear. But what kind of bias?

There is so much exaggeration of what Prof. Dawkins and other ‘New Atheists’ actually say and write out there, it’s not hard to imagine an observer expectancy effect. The critics of Dawkins et. al. coaching people to find offence, hence helping make sure they find it.

The observer expectancy effect is frequently used as an example by skeptics to demonstrate cognitive bias. For example in the case of imagined ‘backmasking‘, instead of telling an audience what is supposedly hidden backwards on an album, you simply play it backwards first, then tell them what to listen for and play it back again. The before and after are markedly different – something that really exposes what’s going on inside your head.

“You can’t miss it when I tell you what’s there.” – Indeed!

In discussion with one of the attendees of the convention who just happens to have psychology qualifications, the idea was floated that Barney Zwartz may have experienced some kind of aural pareidolia that caused him to hear something he expected to hear. Such was the degree of his misquote.

“‘…well, the real theologians like Pope Nazi believe in miracles.”

(Barney Zwartz, 2010)

It’s not even a close approximate of what Dawkins actually said and much, much more than you could reasonably get away with by way of paraphrase.

Barney has had the good sense to retract the misquote, although it’s a little hard to find buried in all the comments. Maybe now that Barney has learnt from this experience, he could interrupt Gerard Henderson’s attempt at schooling Prof. Dawkins, and get Hendo to home-school himself on checking sources.

There are of course other cognitive biases than those I’ve mentioned that could be at work, and I’m in no position to draw strong conclusions. Whatever they may be, the take-home message in all of this is that when you come to something with different preconceptions, you can’t always be guaranteed to walk away with the same conclusions. Which makes it all the more important when making these kinds of accusations, to check your ideas against those of others, check with witnesses and double check your sources.

Intellectual myopia

The one-eyed troll doesn’t like the two-eyed dogma of the ‘Global Waming’ faith! He’ll ‘wam’ you with his staff if you aren’t careful. (Source: Deror).

We all have something of the one-eyed troll inside of us, but I’m not sure as an explanation, that it’s going to be able to get Andrew off the hook for much longer. Since accusing The Young Skeptics of confirmation bias, Andrew has gone on to make a non-retraction, along with a thinly veiled accusation of equivocation levelled at Prof. Dawkins.

“Like many journalists and, I’d guess, many of the audience, I assumed from Richard Dawkins’ slur that he was referring to the German Pope Benedict when he sneered at “Pope Nazi”.

Dawkins now insists he was vilifying another Pope (and also with monstrous unfairness) – and isn’t sorry at all, either, for his playground insult of Senator Steve Fielding…”

(Andrew Bolt, ‘I was wrong: Dawkins is still a barbarian‘, 2010)

You’ll notice that Andrew doesn’t actually state that Prof. Dawkins was calling Pius XII, ‘Pope… Nazi… Whatever…’ Andrew states that ‘Dawkins now insists…’

Now insists? What else has he insisted? There is no sign of Prof. Dawkins actually taking a different position to this, other than some poor quotations.

And given that Ben Pobjie had already pointed out prior to Andrew’s previous post on the matter, that it was understandable that Andrew could have got this wrong due to the ‘Pope Nazi’ meme spreading across the media, why is Andrew raising the matter as a defence only now? Shouldn’t he have addressed it when he was first made aware of it?

‘But everyone else was doing it, and I knew two posts ago, and I’m not actually retracting it now anyway’ to me, doesn’t exactly evoke the kind of understanding that a proper retraction would. Rather it paints Andrew into a corner – the ‘everyone else was saying the same thing’ defence doesn’t work twice, and now he’s wasted it.

Does he think the line about Senator Fielding serves as some kind of insurance?

For pity’s sake, someone calling an MP more stupid than an earthworm for saying something silly, is hardly big news. It happens all the time. We all do it. What makes Prof. Dawkins’ utterance so special? When Ex-PM Paul Keating lets go with his particular brand of insult, it hardly draws this kind of attention.

I really wish Andrew wouldn’t keep doing this to himself.

~ Bruce

P.S. I’m sure I’ll be ‘wamed’ about a typo or two. It’s 4am here in Adelaide, and I’ve been furiously editing through the wee hours. Hey, it’s a blog, not a book – publish now, clean up later. Need sleep now. 😉

Update (21/03/2010): Andrew has yesterday, in his (alleged) final word on the matter, come around to referring to the ‘Pope… Nazi… whatever’ quote as having to do with Pope Pius XII. It’s been an interesting trek this past week; wrong quote; alleging wrong quote is correct even after being shown evidence; non-retraction with the claim that quote is now supposed to mean what it always meant since the beginning and finally, referring to it correctly as if there had never been any doubt. But with a failed reductio as a cherry on top.

That’s right. If Pius XII is a nazi for not calling the genocide a genocide, then Richard Dawkins is al Qaeda for a point he made at the convention. Namely that if you are too afraid to challenge Islam, then you should at least be honest and do so out of fear, and not pretend to do so out of respect. Of course, Bolt mangles the meaning somewhat, and manages to catch himself in a Godwin.

What would Andrew have us believe? That Islam is rushing across Europe, crushing nations and leaving death camps in its wake?

At any rate, here’s Richard Dawkins, going easy on Islam. Or not. Make up your own mind.

13 thoughts on “'Pope Nazi', cognitive bias and intellectual myopia

  1. Don’t you know by now? It’s hard for Bolt to admit when he’s wrong.

    As for the “slur” on Fielding, it’s part and parcel of being a public figure. And it’s not the worst thing Fielding’s been called either.

  2. An excellent analysis, Bruce. This Dawkins thing has really highlighted the inflexibility in Bolt’s views. After it became clear that he was wrong on the facts, he has launched into a series of posts (with UPDATEs) that appear designed to justify the denigration of Dawkins. It looks like he now needs to argue that even though he based his original opinion on facts that turned out to be wrong, his opinion was still right. That’s not a great approach to reasoning for someone who claims to be a sceptic and to understand science.

  3. Being one of the attendees and a self confessed skeptic, this incident was an excellent example of how cognitive biases and experience filters can and do effect eyewitnesses memory and perception. I was about 10 rows from Dawkins and originally thought(right up until the viewing of the tape) that he was referring to good old Ratsy. I wouldn’t have placed money on it but if you’d asked me that’s what I would have said.

    A number of factors contributed to the misperception – alcohol tiredness and the common accusation leveled at ratsy being a nazi(not a belief I hold).

    I find it odd that Bolt thinks that Skeptics think they are immune to bias.

    On an interesting side note Podblack’s talked featured an example of backmasking 🙂

  4. What I found interesting is that I thought at first he meant Benedict – because I’d forgotten about Pius. And because of that, I thought at the time, “That doesn’t make sense, what he just said; he’s misspoken there.”

  5. @Bron – I sometimes wonder how much Andrew’s audience contributes to his sometimes incorrigibility. Can imaging them snapping at him if he strayed too far, or turned 180 on something they were really worked up about.

    @TZ – Thanks. 😉

    @Sean & Ben – At a guess, I reckon those who had been following the issue of sainthood a little closer over the past six months would have had a better chance of getting the quote right when hearing it in person.

  6. Greta article, as usual, Bruce.
    Like Sean I was also there but only 3 rows from Dawkins. I also thought he was referring to ‘Ratzi’ as I didn’t, at the time, know (or remember) about Pious, but did remember that ‘Ratzi’ had been in the Hitler youth. So 2 plus 2 equalled 5.

    However, on first viewing of the video it was plainly obvious that it had to be Pious as Dawkins was talking about people who were in the process of being made saints. Bolt didn’t do himself any favours digging his heals in and refusing to accept his error.

    PS. Pity you didn’t make it to the convention, would have liked to have met you, and I’m sure you would have enjoyed the convention. Perhaps next one, slated for 2012?

  7. Its interesting that this misquote is about all anybody gets to know about the entire convention. If you wanted a strategy to hide the content of the convention from public view this is a good way to do it.

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Over a year of this crap…

Contextual back-story: Over a year ago now, in South Australian Humanist/Atheist circles, we had what could be called a situation.

Towards the start of 2013, months before this “situation”, I was drafting an anti-harassment policy for the Humanist Society of South Australia (HSSA), during my stint as treasurer. The HSSA, from then and until this day has had a close association with a group now known as the Atheist Community of South Australia (ACSA).

The policy I was drafting drew inspiration from policies enacted by American Atheists, and the Center For Inquiry, with considerations made for local contexts, and a number of rational criticisms of such policies taken into account. The process was supposed to and to some extent did, incorporate criticisms from the floor at meetings – i.e. it was intended to be a democratic process.

(As an aside, I have been informed that the HSSA committee has in the past few months, passed a version of the policy as a bylaw, in lieu of putting it to a vote of the membership. There is of writing however, no sign of the final policy on the HSSA website, nor have I obtained a copy, nor had one sent to me as a member.)

Almost from the inception of the drafting process, there were problems. I was warned by an official of a large atheist group that I shouldn’t attempt it – not from an objection to such policies, but on account of the rubbish I’d have to put up with.

At the very first meeting where I announced the drafting process, I was persistently interrupted by a chap named Mark Senior, who objected to my attempt at a criticism of the attitude behind a t-shirt worn to a convention in the US. What his objection was exactly, can’t be ascertained, given that I never got to voice my criticism for him to respond to in the first place. Suffice to say, it heralded a year of complete horseshit to come.

But yes… the mentioned “situation”. That occurred at first not in the HSSA, but in ACSA, and was noticed by Jason Thibeault of Lousy Canuck fame.

Short version: A bunch of chaps got angry about feminism, “Atheist plussers” and The White Ribbon campaign, a number of these guys also being anxious about the drafting of an anti-harassment policy. Lines were stepped over by a number of parties.

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Creeper makes too much eye contact
He’s a bit too eager to talk to women.
He sits alone in his seat, waving to strangers,
mooching off of common courtesy.

Leaning over he pesters a French couple…
”Are you tourists?”
It’s asked bluntly, with dismissive tone.
Yes, they’re tourists. No, they don’t want to talk to him.

Creeper’s advances are unsolicited.
Creeper’s interests are boring.
Creeper won’t take a hint.
Creeper doesn’t respect boundaries.

Bordertown; ironic waypoint signifying boundaries.
Creeper gets a passenger to sit with;
a captive audience for his indulgence;
a sounding board for the self-centred, banal and inane.

Creeper questions the senior woman’s ethnicity.
Proceeds to lecture her on her heritage.
Explains he’s studied war at University.
Tells his captive he’s a writer.

Creeper paws her shoulder.
Creeper asks about vampires.
Creeper hints at undead conspiracies.
Creeper lectures about “girls” and life decisions.

Sweating and writhing, he looks like Gollum on a bad day,
and as wise as the lovechild of Ed Wood and Alain de Botton.
Senior woman asks “how do you know?”
Creeper doesn’t like the questions of philosophers.

Creeper affects chivalry towards service staff,
lunges at senior woman’s neck for a joke;
calls her beautiful with hands lingering over her chest.
She doesn’t terribly mind.

Creeper got the encouragement he craves.
Creeper will do it all again…

~ Bruce

Medicated #004

Preface: I wrote this post in the first half of February, planning to edit it the next morning when I had assumed I’d be more rested. This was the eve of a new side-effect kicking in: something akin to having reached the point where my head was filled to bursting with wet, cold, concrete. These weird migraines may be an ongoing thing, although they are under control at the moment.

I’ve decided, given the possibility of a change of frame of mind in the past few weeks, to publish this post as-is, rather than edit away what may have been temporary idiosyncrasies. Typos, malapropisms and all, saved for posterity, or whatnot.

Gradually, I’m waking up…

It’s taken longer than I’d expected for the insomnia to wear off as a side effect. It’s been a state of affairs that’s left me awake and idle, yet too fatigued to do much in the way of writing, even when a little spare time has come around.

My taste has definitely changed, in most part for the better, but not always. I’ve now got a younger palette.

If you asked me which I’d prefer, six weeks ago, creaming soda or mineral water, I’d have gone with the latter. I often guzzle down a Foodland, 80c bottle of mineral water when tak-tak-takking at the keyboard.

Now mineral water tastes like it used to, which is not to say bad, but still clearly less preferable to a good vanilla creaming soda. Even Jolt vanilla creamy soda, properly chilled, is considerably more pleasurable, even with all that sugar.

If only Tarax was still around (Woodroofe’s ‘Sno Top’ just isn’t creamy enough)… Kirk’s?

Increased physicality, particularly with my gait and reflexes, has seen the occasional muscle twinge from quarters left unused for some time. No cramps, or pulls mind you, just the occasional polite reminder.

And along the way, I’ve re-discovered, or re-affirmed a few observations… (Things get heavier from this point onward).

I blame Epicurus (and failing that, Alain de Botton)

I can’t be a hedonist of the traditional variety. While I share similar attitudes to the alleviation of suffering held by Epicureans, and certainly, the prospect of reflection in my own Garden is desirable, the principal of lathe biōsas isn’t.

While I don’t desire fame, nor harbour urges to dictate the ins and outs of other people’s lives, I still most definitely intend to live politically, and loudly at that! The life unseen indeed!

If I’d wanted to live some kind of ultra-libertarian, hippy commune lifestyle, I’d have moved to Nimbin and tuned-out, or something, maaaaaaaan.

I can’t honestly say that the spirit of hedonism in which I take my meds, is anything more than semi-Epicurean. I care too much about other people to lock myself away like that.

(Call it a kind of Pharisees paradox: while I don’t want to live like a Pharisee, or make myself a hypocrite, I don’t see meek silence as practically compatible with achieving the goals of anything like a universalist hedonism, especially in as far as anything foreshadowing modern utilitarianism).

And no matter how long I take escitalopram, nor how often he cherry picks Epicurus (and other philosophers), I don’t see Alain de Botton’s proposed temples to atheism as any kind of curative, to anything serious at least. AdB takes the problem of human flourishing to venal, and unproductive new lows.

(It seems he’s done away with lathe biōsas as well).

Dawkins is on the money

There are better things to spend this kind of money on. A bit stuffy-classicist perhaps, next to AdB, Dawkins comes off looking like a working class hero.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Alain de Botton should end all his tweets in ‘#firstworldproblems’.

Do you see how apathetic anti-depressants make me?

Huxley doesn’t do SSRIs

I’m sick of the Brave New World dystopian take on antidepressants, now more than I’ve ever been. I used to humour the idea back in the 1990s when the available medications of the time were less precise than they are now. I was told, during the latter years of the recession, that public funding of anti-depressants was a way of suppressing dissent and keeping the populace docile.

(This charge being levelled at the then Howard government, incidentally).

This was little more than a paranoid, overwrought amplification of the ‘happy pill’ rhetoric used by people who don’t use ‘happy pills’. SSRIs don’t make you happy, they treat biological shortcomings that are impediments to happiness*, much in the way insulin injections treat a shortcoming in diabetics (that is also an impediment to happiness).

If your unhappiness is entirely psychological, SSRIs won’t fix it. SSRIs don’t just pave over difficulties the way recreational drugs sometimes appear to.

Perhaps you need to be a doctor, or to experience these things first hand, or perhaps you just need to be a bit empathic and understanding, to fully understand how antidepressants are not narcotics.

Of course, it’s easy for us to criticise Huxley’s take on psychoactive drugs, given what he had to work with at the time – primarily psychedelics, which Huxley experimented with, early tricyclic antidepressants only being around for less than a decade before his death (over two decades after Brave New World).

Still, there’s Brave New World in context, and then there’s the snobbish pontificating about drugs taking away all the life problems you can’t and won’t deal with.

No, I don’t take it back

There’s a tendency amongst some of the people I’ve had run-ins with, in real life, to attribute our disagreements to my depression. Oh, you were just depressed, that’s okay, I understand…

Right… so now that I’m on medication, that’s altered reality or history? Suddenly by fiat, whoever was disagreeing with me is correct, simply because I’m on medication?

It should occur to people that even if I was wrong, my antagonists could still be wrong as well; we could both have been wrong. That this gets overlooked exposes all-too convenient dismissal for what it is.

Now that I’m taking Lexapro, Mr/Mrs Condescending, history has altered so that you; never said ‘Hitler should have finished the job’; never uttered ‘Asians can’t drive in traffic because of their squinty eyes’; never blamed women for inciting men by showing a bit of cleavage; never racially vilified your Indian co-workers behind their backs; never postulated about the supposed potential problems caused by future racial-mixing between white Australians and Sudanese refugees; never accused me of being a threat to you, despite only ever protecting you from real, actual threats, at great personal expense; never fabricated the story, telling mutual friends just to show how progressive you are, that I don’t like lesbians; never… etc.

None of this history goes away just because I’m taking a medication. I don’t suddenly become apathetic to any of this because I’m on SSRIs.

Fighting on

Subjectively, frustration takes on a whole new meaning in the context of dysthymia. Already I’m noticing that the usual bugbears, while still unhealthy to engage with at any great length (much less humour), don’t feel as corrosive.

This isn’t a comment on morality or subjective revulsion – I still find the same things morally repugnant for the same reasons. It’s just that these things, even at this early stage, don’t seem to wear me down the same way as they used to (although they still can).

I suspect my motivations will change with time – I’m only human and hence still subject to my passions.

But still, the ‘happy pills’ aren’t making my conflicts just up and disappear, and I’m becoming a whole lot more enervated about fighting the fight.

~ Bruce

* Amongst other things, such as the ability to concentrate, which is a big-ticket issue for me.


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Crown Princess Mary’s Tahitian Pearl Necklace

Prince Henrik of Denmark, Queen Margrethe’s consort for 46 years, passed away last week, and to honour his memory, we have been taking a look at some of his glittering gifts to his family over the years. Click HERE to learn about Queen Margrethe’s Engagement Ring, HERE for Crown Princess Mary’s Diamond Flower Brooch, HERE for Queen Margrethe’s Gold, Ruby, and Pearl Parure, and HERE for Queen Margrethe’s Modern Turquoises. Today’s feature is Crown Princess Mary’s Tahitian Pearl Necklace-

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The two strand pearl necklace, featuring one strand of cream coloured pearls and one strand of dark Tahitian pearls joined by a blue stone clasp, was an engagement gift from Prince Henrik to Mary Donaldson in 2003.

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The soon to be Crown Princess Mary wore the necklace for the Engagement Dinner at Fredesbourg Palace held that evening. Unlike the diamond brooch given as a wedding gift, the pearl necklace seems not to have been a great favourite, and there have been few appearances since that dinner.

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Last week, Crown Princess Mary wore the necklace, along with her diamond brooch, for Prince Henrik’s Funeral in the Chapel at Christiansborg Palace. I hope to see it frequently in the future, and feel it’s cool dark tones would go well with the Midnight Tiara.

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3 thoughts on “Crown Princess Mary’s Tahitian Pearl Necklace

  1. I agree. This is a lovely necklace that deserves to be taken out for a spin more often. And I wouldn’t mind seeing the Midnight Tiara come out to play either.

  2. This is one of my favourite royal pearl necklaces. It’s unfortunate she doesn’t wear it more often. She has already worn the one shoulder teal engagement dress (pictured above) with the Midnight Tiara before. The next time she should wear this necklace with that tiara as it would make a lovely set.

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