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 more common […]
The Economic Fallacy, Greenpeace, David Suzuki, And Global Warming
“You can’t believe what that guy says. He research was funded by Greenpeace!” The person uttering this sentence has committed the economic fallacy, which is the belief that the truth of research […]
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 of life […]
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 as important […]
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 pile and […]
Education: A Vaccine Against Ignorance? Or, There Are Too Many People!
“Currently, one could argue that the most significant form of global pollution is human population growth.” So says Mr Jack Trevors, Editor-in-Chief of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (WASP), “an international, interdisciplinary […]
What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody’s Cognitive Toolkit? Edge
Long-time reader Randy Brich reminds us all to head over to Edge.org and read the responses to the 2011 World Question given in the title. It will be worth your time to […]
Castrate People To Prevent Global Warming Suffering?
For another take, be sure not to miss this. When I was much younger and vastly stupider, I made a snide remark to my father who was engaged in what I thought […]
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