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Sleeping Beauty Probability Problem
Update This has been moved up from its original 29 Feb 2012 date on 23 March 2012 to allow additional comments. Update This has been moved up from its original…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Implications Of Moral Insignificance
In her piece "In Praise of Insignificance" in Scientific American, Jennifer Ouellette says, If one embraces an atheist worldview, it necessarily requires embracing, even celebrating, one's insignificance. It's a tall…
Posted inCulture
Another Academic Says Climate Skeptics Criminals Against Humanity And Other Name Calling
In a talk at some "sustainability" something-or-other seminar---one this is sure: we're not going to soon run out of climate conclaves---academic Donald Brown told his audience (25 min. mark) that…
Posted inPhilosophy
All Forecasts, Predictions, & Prophecies Are Contingent
Yesterday I made the point that Jim Hansen's latest threat of doom was a conditional one. I also said that there was nothing wrong with this. And there isn't. Nothing…
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Boy Sues Government To Stop Global Warming. James Hansen Comes Out Of Hiding
I had thought the furor was over, that those who held ultramontane views about climatologists like James "Lock me up!" Hansen (see below the fold) had given up and gone…
Posted inCulture Statistics
Many Lie About Their Support Of Gay Marriage: Study
Thanks to New York Times's (yes) Russ Douthat who alerted us to the paper "Findings from a Decade of Polling on Ballot Measures Regarding the Legal Status of Same Sex…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
What The North Carolina Gay Marriage Vote Means To You If You Were Against It
North Carolina voted 61 to 39 to amend its constitution to read that marriage is solely a union between a man and a woman. This was, as far as democratic…
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Heartland Institute Accomplishes Act To Self Once Thought Physically Impossible
At the risk of losing the argument before it begins, let me ask you two questions. Number One: What do Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse-tung, serial killer and eater Jeffrey Dahmer,…