It’s nearing the holiday season and for those looking for the perfect gift to buy a new or seasoned gardener, look no further than Robert Pavlis’ new book : Plant Science for Gardeners” Robert Pavlis is an author, teacher, master gardener, and dedicated myth-buster. In this episode we discuss the first two chapters of his excellent new book.
Robert’s published books:
Garden Myths, Soil Science for Gardeners and Building Natural Ponds
Blogs: Garden Myths and Garden Fundamentals
Robert’s YouTube Channel: Garden Fundamentals
Robert’s Facebook Groups: Garden Fundamentals and Building Natural Ponds
Owner of Aspen Grove Gardens
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Great guest! Thanks!
A few points on the philosophy of science:
– It is a legal move to apply a prior scientific result. E.g. thermodynamics (a scientific result) rules out every Rube Goldberg perpetual motion machine irrespective of design. You do not need to empirically build and test the contraption in a formalized randomized controlled double blind peer-reviewed experiment. Your prior rock-solid scientific result already provides the conclusion.
– It is always possible to posit confounding variables that reduce any result to abject doubt. E.g., the kettle boiled in 3 minutes when I did the experiment last Tuesday, but I didn't do the experiment on Wednesday, so I am in total abject doubt about how long my kettle boils on Wednesdays. Nor did I do the experiment /next/ Tuesday, so I am again in total abject doubt about how long my kettle will take to boil next Tuesday. I can only resolve this with an axiomatic leap: that the physics of kettles will remain constant from day-to-day.
– Science is not coterminous with labcoats and whitepapers. Notice there is no whitepaper B that conclusively double-blind proves that the authors of whitepaper A transcribed their stopwatch readout correctly. There is no whitepaper C that performs the final ultimate randomized controlled trial to terminate the infinite regress of confirmatory whitepapers for every jot and tittle of every other whitepaper.
– Leaps of inference, extrapolation, induction, deduction, and syllogistic synthesis of prior findings, are all perfectly scientific – indeed these are the indelible foundations of formalized whitepaper science.
I found the bark of a tree grows down. Axe marks my kids put on trees years ago are now closer to the ground.
Lovely guest, nice discussion, thank-you!
Interesting!
Favourite guest always!
Grapes of wrath, in the bathroom? That really cracks me up. But seriously, I really like Robert. I've been watching his videos and realized he has a whole series for new gardeners. He makes so much sense and he really knows his stuff. Thanks for having him on, Greg, and giving us insight to his book on plant science. Definitely a worthwhile investment I'm going to check it out.