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EPA’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan
The EPA has asked for my advice.1 They will not listen to, or harken, or act on this advice, but asking for it gives them a sense that they have…
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Bayesian Probability & Swinburne’s P-Inductive & C-Inductive Arguments (For God’s Existence)
Because I am jet-lagged (and fundamentally lazy) here is a classic post, modified to include a homework assignment. Don't be like me: do the work. This post contains some fundamental…
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Lightning May Cause Headaches, Moon May Cause Domestic Intranquility
I have discovered a statistically significant correlation between phases of the moon and domestic harmony. Every day for several months I filled out the Domestic Harmony Inventory (DHI), a scientifically…
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Precaution: Part III—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
Read Part II. Precaution is essential, so the tale goes, to create policies and laws that focus on and tackle uncertainty that might be the foreboding of particular risks. The…
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Precaution: Part II—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
For all the flurry surrounding precaution---being portrayed as a decisional/procedural instrument to protect human and environmental health from the (potential) dangers of human activities---the history shows that we are dealing…
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Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health
I have quoted these words from Mark Twain many times. They never lose their relevance: There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable…
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University’s Non-Discrimination Clause
I've been looking at university positions and typical is this fine print from the University of San Francisco (which used to be Catholic): The University of San Francisco is an…
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Realism vs. Anti-Realism III: The anti-realist response — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
We have no space to follow St. Thomas through all these negative heresies; but a word must be said about Nominalism or the doubt founded on the things that differ.…