I thought I might use the Introduction section of the Forum to say goodbye.
In any venture one vital action is to have everyone pointing in the same direction. Most of you will be able to think of examples from your own lives, from work, or from the broader political scene, of the disruptive consequences if this is not achieved.
When tensions exist between participants that cannot be resolved, the appropriate action is to part company. That is what I am doing. I value adherence to scientific methodology and application of logic above political correctness and avoidance of conflict. I am sure I have annoyed many of you because of this in the past. I do not apologise for it. I have come to admire many of you because you also hold to your principles, as I try to hold to mine.
I will now make the fatal error of thanking some of you for what I have learnt from you over the last several years and months. I say fatal error, because I shall doubtless forget to mention many of you who do not deserve to be forgotten. Nevertheless, in no particular order, thanks to Mitchell McKain, SkinWalker, Marnix, Paralith, sciforefugee, Harold, 425 Chaotic Requisition, Kastler, Wallaby, jackson33, obviously, pendragon, serpicojr, kojax, riverrat, sunshine warrior, Wolf, HomoUniversalis, Bunbury, GoodGod3rd, InvertNexus, SpuriousMonkey, MagiMaster, prasit, Dishmaster, Janus, Jellyologist, The Biologista, Zitterbewebung, and several more.
I also enjoyed, though rarely agreed with the contributions of Dayton Turner, Harry Costas, Cosmo, MikeNS, and my alltime favourite William McCormick.
Please select one of the following farewells to suit your taste.
a) May God go with you.
b) May the ultimate embodiment of the teleological implications of emergent properties arising out of complexities inherent in thermodynamic systems operating far from equilibrium go with you.
c) Whatever……![]()