<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;"> Nick, may I ask for some clarification? You said, "one of my favorite myth's is the Emperor's New Clothes, <i>"the idea that one can go PhD-less into some expert world and see something that expert practitioners are blind to."</i> What is mythical\u2014i.e., who has 'not clothes', the one(s) with the Ph.D.s or the one without?</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">dave west</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Sat, Mar 14, 2026, at 6:24 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Hi, all, </div><div><br></div><div>Meteorology, like psychology, and quantum theory, etc. is a subject matter that collects fringy theorists. Since I am such a person, I cant really fault another human being for being one. Also, one of my favorite myth's is the Emperor's New Clothes, the idea that one can go PhD-less into some expert world and see something that expert practitioners are blind to. Today's post is thus an invitation to Shumlik Hazin's Substack and a summary of my interaction with its author over the last few weeks. I am not sure it's everybody's cup of tea, but those of you interested in the role of metaphor in science might ponder on it. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div><br></div><div>Nick </div><div><div><span class="qt-gmail_signature_prefix">--</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nicholas S. Thompson</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology</div><div>Clark University</div><div><a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu" target="_blank">nthompson@clarku.edu</a></div><div><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson</a></div><div><a href="https://substack.com/@monist" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@monist</a></div></div></div></div></div><div>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..</div><div>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv</div><div>Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://bit.ly/virtualfriam">https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</a></div><div>to (un)subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a></div><div>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com</a>/</div><div>archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a></div><div> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com</a>/</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>