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Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities

Busy day. So here, just for fun, and woefully incomplete, are a list of "rights" recently discovered. Remember: there can be no rights without responsibilities. If you invoke a right,…

Philosophy

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…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

David Stove, PMS Admakers Apologize For PMS Apology Ad, San Franciscan Criminals, More

David Stove David Stove has a posthumous essay, put out in book form: Whatâ€™s Wrong With Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment. There is a review at…

Culture Philosophy

You Too Can Be A Genius After 10,000 Hours

No, you cannot. That title is a lie, and, judging by a recent spate of books on the subject, a popular one. Ann Hulbert of Slate has compiled a list…

Philosophy

Is Feminist Epistemology Different Than Male Epistemology?

Euclid gave us a gloriously simple proof that there are an infinite number of primes. A prime number, of course, is a positive number that can be evenly divided only…

Philosophy Statistics

Are We In The Midst Of A Global Extinction Event?

"All Life Ends! Amphibians, Cartilaginous Fishes Hardest Hit." That was the headline yesterday in newspapers all over the country as editors reacted to a press release from Science magazine which…

Philosophy Statistics

Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version

In 1976, in his The Selfish Gene, a book which revealed that most of us are slaves to our genes, biologist Richard Dawkins "discovered" the meme which, in one definition,…

Fun Philosophy

Weekly Mail

I receive regularly a lot of red hot tips from regular readers, but as the week goes on they are often buried by newer mail. Thus I will try out…

Colbert on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 18, 2024
Religiously, morally, historically, there's no argues for Israel. Especially religiously. Actual judaism is just a rabbinic scam, created 19th centuries…
Cary D Cotterman on William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – ThorinquiryApril 18, 2024
How to think begins simply with thinking, instead of just hearing and obeying. Every time we think for ourselves, our…
Hagfish Bagpipe on William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – ThorinquiryApril 18, 2024
That was a fun discussion. Never heard of Thorin, loved his scottish brogue. He has a good mind that makes…
Milton Hathaway on William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – ThorinquiryApril 18, 2024
"the mere presence of an alternate explanation is useless" This brought to mind the latest reincarnation of the UFO (UAP?)…
Nate on Briggs You Tool! UFOs Are Real & Driven By Top Secret American Pilots, Insists ReaderApril 18, 2024
Damn this is from June. You just reposted on Twitter and here i am thinking it's today's post.