Comments on: Yes, it’s Rocket Science http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/3047 Physics, tech and humor. Because science and learning are cool, and life's too short not to laugh. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:45:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ColonelFazackerley http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/3047/comment-page-1#comment-18333 ColonelFazackerley Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:35:21 +0000 http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/?p=3047#comment-18333 I think Copernicus and Kepler both did Celestial mechanics before Newton. Ptolemy did them too, but he was more wrong. I think Copernicus and Kepler both did Celestial mechanics before Newton.

Ptolemy did them too, but he was more wrong.

]]> By: Richard Gill http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/3047/comment-page-1#comment-18317 Richard Gill Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:08:20 +0000 http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/?p=3047#comment-18317 The judge in the infamous Sally Clarke case (mother imprisoned for murder of her babies) refused to let Prof Phil Dawid, president of the Royal Statistical Society, testify for the defence in court since Prof Meadows' (child psychiatrist) statistics "wasn't rocket science". It was totally wrong and led to an apalling miscarriage of justice. Mrs Clarke was later vindicated but died a totally broken woman. Not so relevant to the blog topic, I'm sorry, but the phrase "rocket science"will never be the same again. The judge in the infamous Sally Clarke case (mother imprisoned for murder of her babies) refused to let Prof Phil Dawid, president of the Royal Statistical Society, testify for the defence in court since Prof Meadows’ (child psychiatrist) statistics “wasn’t rocket science”. It was totally wrong and led to an apalling miscarriage of justice. Mrs Clarke was later vindicated but died a totally broken woman.

Not so relevant to the blog topic, I’m sorry, but the phrase “rocket science”will never be the same again.

]]> By: Richard Gill http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/3047/comment-page-1#comment-18316 Richard Gill Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:03:29 +0000 http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/?p=3047#comment-18316 The judge in the infamous Sally Clarke case (mother imprisoned for murder of her babies) refused to let Prof Phil Dawid, president of the Royal Statistical Society, testify for the defence in court since Prof Meadows' (child psychiatrist) statistics "wasn't rocket science". The judge in the infamous Sally Clarke case (mother imprisoned for murder of her babies) refused to let Prof Phil Dawid, president of the Royal Statistical Society, testify for the defence in court since Prof Meadows’ (child psychiatrist) statistics “wasn’t rocket science”.

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