David Douglass Quotes

• As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

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• However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

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• If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

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• Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

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• It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

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• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

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• One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

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• Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

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David Douglass (8)

Birth:	1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Physicist

About

David H. Douglass is an American physicist at the University of Rochester. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the University of Rochester as a Professor of Physics in 1969. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences. His work has involved experiments in the areas of liquid helium and superconductivity. Significant contributions have also been made in the field of gravitational wave detectors.

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