(10-09-2016, 12:19 PM)Island Chris Wrote: It is important for scientists to communicate to the public. Most of us, including me, are not good at this. In the United States, there are real problems with people believing all kinds of stuff that is just not true; not believing in Evolution, Climate-related science, etc. The last few months scientists and good amateur scientists have not been reading the posts that I know of, and from the couple I have read (I'm not reading the vast majority), there is a lot of garbage being posted. It is not being challenged. It is kind of pointless to challenge some of this.

So Earthwaves has become a source of misinformation. Maybe it is time it was shut down. Alternatively, Richter needs his login revoked, and we need to look at what Duffy is posting.

Chris

(10-09-2016, 11:57 PM)Skywise Wrote: First I must apologize for not being able to be more active on the forum. Some of you privately know my situation. It is improving but has not yet reached a point where I can spend time here regularly.

I, too, am a little concerned about recent posts. Although I wanted predictions to be a part of what we discuss here I never intended them to be the primary focus of the site.

But, the rest of us (me included) haven't been doing our part to offset those posts, either by directly addressing them or posting other content. Although I can understand that the lack of readers here might make folks not interested in posting since, well, who'd read it, right?

Brian

(10-27-2016, 06:08 PM)PennyB Wrote: I don't think that shutting down a site where a few competent scientists still continue to engage in conversation with the public is a good idea.

(10-28-2016, 12:01 AM)Skywise, Please don\t shut it down.  I think this is going to be more popular sooner than later. Wrote:

(10-27-2016, 06:08 PM)PennyB Wrote: I don't think that shutting down a site where a few competent scientists still continue to engage in conversation with the public is a good idea.

Penny, so good to hear from you. It's been too long.

This may be a small site that gets little posting, but it does get traffic. On average so far this year my hosting gets about 7000 unique visitors and 80 gigabytes of traffic per month. It's hard for me to split my two sites apart, but the vast bulk of it is to this forum.

Looking at the forum stats themselves shows that the most viewed threads are mostly science related, with the top viewed thread being my post on What *IS* Science.

On my own personal pages, the top hit is to my article regarding one of the 'we never went to the moon' conspiracies - Why The Apollo Moon Pictures Have No Stars.


I think this speaks well of Earthwaves as a useful source of hard science. Even though we don't talk much at the moment, what we have said is still getting attention.

Brian

(11-14-2016, 04:49 PM)marc / berkeley Wrote: Skywise, Please don't shut it down.  I think this is going to be more popular sooner than later.

(10-09-2016, 12:19 PM)Island Chris Wrote: It is important for scientists to communicate to the public. Most of us, including me, are not good at this. In the United States, there are real problems with people believing all kinds of stuff that is just not true; not believing in Evolution, Climate-related science, etc. The last few months scientists and good amateur scientists have not been reading the posts that I know of, and from the couple I have read (I'm not reading the vast majority), there is a lot of garbage being posted. It is not being challenged. It is kind of pointless to challenge some of this.

So Earthwaves has become a source of misinformation. Maybe it is time it was shut down. Alternatively, Richter needs his login revoked, and we need to look at what Duffy is posting.

Chris