Posted inPhilosophy
The Unexamined Scientific Life
Busy day at WMBriggs.com-land, so only a slight puzzle. If you want to be a scientist, it is essential---I speak in earnest---to learn the calculus. Indeed, the importance of this…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Latest Threat To Global Warming? In Vitro Fertilization
Stop me if you're heard this one before. An academic, educated well beyond her capabilities, having a lot of free time on her hands, and frightened past the point of…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Government To Issue Baby Licenses
Regular readers will recall that I am a (self-appointed) bioethicist, a post I take on not because I need the work, but because the professionals are making such a hash…
Posted inFun
What Should Artists Do About Global Warming Contest
Picture shows artist Sarah Cameron Sunde, who stood in San Francisco Bay on Friday Aug. 15, 2014, "for a full cycle of tides, a more-than 13-hour process." A more than…
Posted inPhilosophy
Philosophic Issues in Cosmology VI: Anthropic Coincidences—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not Made Of Matter
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. A relatively…
Posted inStatistics
Ask A Scientific Ethicist: Baby Making, Auto Mishap, ISIS Attacks
This was supposed to run this morning. No idea why it didn't. This week, three letters from concerned readers. Too many babies Dear Scientific Ethicist, Hopefully this subject matter isn't…
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It Makes No Sense To Say You’re More Likely To Die Of Bee Sting Than Shark Bite
The National Journal says: "The odds of being killed by a shark are about 1 in 3.7 million. The odds of being killed by a sting from a bee, wasp,…
