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Some Common Global Warming Fallacies
The level of debate on global warming is shriekingly poor. Not that I have any hope of convincing the world to reject bad logic, but here are some of the…
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The EPA, Dust, And The Ecological Fallacy
In last night's Republican debate, the candidates were asked if they could eliminate just one federal agency, which one would it be? Herman Cain chose the EPA: The first --…
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The Environmentalist Fallacy Causing Global Warming Divide To Grow
A headline lifted from an MS-"Bias free"-NBC story: "Americans' divide over global warming getting deeper" (linked on HotAir). Subtitle: "Despite onslaught of science, resistance to the idea seems to be…
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What BEST Means And What It Doesn’t
This post is for you to link into discussions proliferating across the internet which are filled with error. Temperature Changes BEST has confirmed what everybody---and I mean everybody---already believed: that…
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Why There’s No Point To Arguing About Abortion
I lifted that title, word for word, from (atheist, self-admitted man-of-the-left, City College emeritus Professor of Sociology) Steven Goldberg's article of the same name from his must-read Fads and Fallacies…
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Dawkins On The Double-Blind Experiment
The Edge every year asks top science celebrities a penetrating, yet fun, always fun, question. Last year's was "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?" One of the correspondent…
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Good Friday: Rally For Reason With St Anselm’s Ontological Argument
It's Good Friday, an excellent time to prove---I use this word in its logical sense---that many people come to religion through rational argument. We earlier this week examined the so-called…
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There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part II
Read Part I Statistical Measurements And speaking of measurement, first a word from our sponsor, BrainView Magnetic Window3, the world's leading manufacturer of fMRI devices, the machines which produce colorful…
