If it's any comfort to her, many of the disturbing details that have us concerned come from that very same feed she thinks refutes any notions of "erratic behavior".
I think we refute them — and that any reasonable person will see that, regardless of political affiliation.
But the principal reason contrarian think tanks refute climate science is because their benefactors -- the fossil fuel industry -- would take a major hit if the U.S. government actually came up with policies to address it in a serious way.
It is often thought that he refuted his surrealist sculptures of the 1930s, but their psychological impact is at one with his later work.
But she didn't think so — she refuted herself, as Dr. Johnson had refuted Bishop Berkeley, by tapping on stone and hearing the scrape and chink of stone responding.
On the reading of these four early expert reviewers, Wittgenstein failed to understand Gödel's Theorem because he failed to understand the mechanics of Gödel's proof and he erroneously thought he could refute or undermine Gödel's proof simply by identifying "true in PM" (i.e., Principia Mathematica) with "proved/provable in PM".
He used his own conversion as proof that conversion works and to refute "conventional thought". .
Let this sink in: the "journalist" who eagerly rushed to blame Muslims for the Oslo terrorist attack over the summer, before she was embarrassed by refuting evidence, thought Cain was not being fair to Muslims.
This is probably why no historian has mooted it before, and why none is likely to think it worth refuting now.
Although, as I have indicated, Moore did not intend his 'proof' as a refutation of skepticism, he did frequently argue against skeptical views; and in his early writings, despite the passage quoted just now, he does sometimes give the impression that he thinks one can refute skepticism by simply bringing forward a straightforward case of knowledge, such as 'I know that this is a pencil'.
