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Squirrel Arrested For Stealing Nuts: Nonhuman Rights Entail Nonhuman Responsibilities

Wesley Smith writes at the Weekly Standard: [T]he annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science hosted a panel supporting the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans, which…

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Do Conservatives Distrust Science More Than Liberals?

Science versus Scientism That, anyway, is the latest question making the rounds in the science wars. The simplistic answer, the one de rigueur on campuses and newsrooms, is "Yes." Why,…

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The Reason Rally Fizzles

An army; well, a brigade; or anyway at least a couple of battalions of Brights milled around the mall in Washington DC on March 24---various estimates gave "highs are around…

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My Failure To Purchase Something In The Market Subjects Me To Regulation

The title words were spoken to Solicitor General Verrilli by Justice Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments. Scalia was making the obvious point that because he might not buy a thing…

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Supreme Court To Check The Doctrine Of Unintended Consequences?

This country, like all other countries, has at times lost its mind. But this country, again like all others, since it is constituted differently than the others, goes insane in…

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Why You Don’t Want Free Health Care: Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Obamacare

Our reading today is from the Constitution, first Act, eighth Section, third Clause: [The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and…

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Experts Say People Aren’t Smart Enough

Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen said recently, "The first lesson you learn as a pollster is that people are stupid." Jensen represents a common attitude among media denizens that ordinary…

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Sandra Fluke Mows The Lawn: A Play In One Act

Scene A suburban Washington DC street some sunny afternoon in July. Little Sandra and her friend Mark arrive at the house of Mr George. Little Sandra pushes a manual lawn…

Robert Arvanitis on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 6, 2025
What is the age of reason for a human cub, perhaps seven? And that takes 84 months of direct, unbroken…
Charly on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 5, 2025
When Deep Seek made the big hoopla recently, I asked it: " Is climate change a hoax?" I thought the…
NLR on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 5, 2025
Things now don't look anything like people predicted they would 30 years ago. They didn't actually know what would happen.…
hudbwu on Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your MoneyMay 5, 2025
> Before that, I leave it as homework to note the use of a popular marketing phrase in the Abstract…
Chaeremon on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 5, 2025
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters (top parrot of "sensations" narrated by CNN, Guardian, etc) https://slashdot.org/poll/3281/when-will-agi-be-achieved … Never 2698…