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Climate Denial And Slavery

A common trope among academic philosophers, academic sociologists and the like---people without training in physics, that is---is to compare skepticism of the most shocking climate prognostications with belief in, and…

Statistics

Slaughter Better Than Disease In Controlling Global Warming, Researchers

If you had to guess, which of these would you think would be a better control for global warming: Genghis Khan or the Black Death? Before answering, consider that both…

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Precaution: Part IV—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part III. Science plays an interesting role in precautionary culture. Overall, science is looked at in our culture as a discerning field of advice in terms of numerous aspects…

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Proving What You Want To Believe

You can always find a way to believe anything. That "always" is strict---the magic of belief, like a card trick with a gaffed deck, can always be worked. But just…

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Happy 1000th Post!

This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…

Culture

San Francisco, Banning Capitol: Adds Pets To Forbidden List

The uber-enlightened which are the San Francisco city council and its hangers on have banned: McDonald's Happy Meals (they objected to kids being happy), cigarette smoking nearly everywhere (they refuse…

Book review

Earth Has A Fever: How Can We Cool It?

Earth Fever: Living Consciously with Climate Change by Judy McAllister, Erik van Praag, and Jan Paul van Soest With Foreword by Hazel Henderson and Preface, by Jacqueline Cramer, Minister for…

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The New Ballad of Chicken Little

Once upon a day, so bright and fine Walked Chicken B. Little. A scientist, mind! "The sky is blue," he said, "but I am not." "For I know much, quite…

SHAWN E MARSHALL on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
I don't believe Time exists as a physical entity I don't believe the speed of light is constant I cannot…
Johnno on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
BRIGGS, YOU FOOL! AND ALL YOU FOOLISH EXPURTS TOO!!! There is also a sixtly! SIXTLY - A novice can assess…
hudbwu on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
Well this was a cherry article (not sarcasm). Merry Christmas!
Johnno on How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)December 24, 2024
A better word than "insane", would be "Satanic," because we would do a disservice to the actually clinically insane, who…
Paul murphy on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
Nonsense - but merry Christmas!