Appendix 7: Presenting Data - Imposing A Pattern In Defence Of The Dominant Paradigm

The charts shown here were sent to the Coalition by a supporter who wishes to remain anonymous. The charts are to be found in the Australian Greenhouse Office’s Technical Report 43: The Impact of Tillage On Changes In Soil Carbon Density with Special Emphasis on Australian Conditions. The comments are those of the source.



Contrary to the curves imposed on the data, no link between carbon sequestration and either temperature or rainfall can be made by these studies. But the motivation to impose a known order on random data is not to be questioned. They are simply seeing what their worldview allows them to see. " Scientist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn in his book 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' says that the shared Values and norms of the scientific community form a barrier to out-of-paradigm phenomena and concepts. The shared values and norms of the scientific community form a barrier to out-of-paradigm phenomena and concepts. Kuhn says normal science aims to 'force nature into the preformed and relatively inflexible box that the paradigm supplies. No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all.'