[LINK] {Spam?} Re: CLimater scientist sues for defamation

Peter Bowditch peter at ratbags.com
Sat Oct 27 10:37:39 AEDT 2012


Stephen said:

> Rachel writes,
> 
> > We live in a very weird age, where information gets mixed up with
> > knowledge, where fact is subservient to opinion and where the experts
> > who try to level the balance are mercilessly disparaged by cowards ..
> > I expect that will shortly lead to the breaking down of the systems
> > that make science useful and information dependable.....
> 
> 
> Yes, indeed. What is happening to Chaucer's cultural heritage? 
> 
> "Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more
> than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and
> quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,
> And gladly wolde he lerne.."  Geoffrey Chaucer, (1385 AD).

Followed by the motto of Macquarie University:

"And gladly teche"

Which I have seen quoted in graffiti, followed by "And badly spelle".

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