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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…

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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…

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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…

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Peer Review and Proof

Suppose that I today, below, in this post, prove to you a certain mathematics theorem, say, "The Symmetry of Individual Constants." Is that theorem true? Before you answer, consider that…

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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…

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Statistics as Beauty; Global Warming Miscellany; SATs Biased?; More

Statistics is Beautiful? From reader Yeah, Yeah comes a link to a Wired article which assures us we should "Learn the Language of Data." It's not a pretty language, but…

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Causality: Guest Post by DAV

Today's guest post, on a subject dear to us all, is by long-time reader (and now contributor) DAV. While fencing in many of the Web's blogs it's not uncommon to…

Hagfish Bagpipe on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Briggs: "...some complained of having to learn philosophy..." Theology too.
Paul Murphy on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Maybe cannibals like their food marine-ated?
cdquarles on William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – ThorinquiryApril 19, 2024
One definition of faith is "Certain knowledge of something you can't know any other way", such as mathematical axioms. Faith…
Cary D Cotterman on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
I live and breathe as proof that ugly does not equal woke.
Gespenst on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 19, 2024
Heresolong, We're talking about modern Israel here.