“When your education limits your imagination, it’s called indoctrination.” Of course, but why on Earth does education reduce one’s imagination? Having a better understanding of how the world works should enhance one’s creative capacities. This is the typical sour grapes …
Category: Renewables – Science
Improving Public Education Is Not for Everyone
What will that result in? More and better teachers, and more richly educated young people, stemming the tide of America’s increasing irrelevance in the global marketplace. That may sound noncontroversial, but it’s not. There are plenty of people who don’t …
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What We Say (and Don’t Say) to Pregnant Women
It’s one thing to be anti-abortion and another to be just plain stupid. When we learn that a woman is pregnant, do we congratulate her on her baby? If this is to be her first child, do we think of …
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Christianity in Decline
Here’s an interesting article on the decline of Christianity in the United States, in which the author speculates on the reasons for the erosion: the Cold War, 9/11, and the Internet. I would suggest that Americans’ spiking interest in politics …
The Rejection of Science: How Did It Happen?
Of all the absurdities in modern-day America, none is sadder than our rejection of science, in particular, our broadspread and tightly held beliefs that our scientists are liars and crooks. This is just one of the tragic outcomes of what …
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Religion and Science
One Jim Palmer wrote an essay on the meme here that begins: Theology isn’t the free search for truth, but rather a defense of an already held position. No Jewish rabbi will come to the conclusion that the Hopi are …
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Power for Patriots
Whenever I come across these emergency power supplies sold to “patriots” I always wonder why products like these are targeted to Trump supporters. After all, don’t progressives need power backup in the case of outages? Upon further inspection, the answer …
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More on COVID-19
Responding to this post on COVID-19, in which Peter Spitzer, MD provides an update on the current state of the relevant epidemiology, a reader notes: I thought that Dr. Spitzer’s essay was interesting, thoughtful, well written, moderate and made a …
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A Memory of Star Trek
When I was studying philosophy in the mid-1970s, my mentor was a considerable “Trekkie.” This, as us oldsters may remember, was the period in which the first Star Trek conventions began to emerge. I recall his expressing his commitment to …
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Scientific Consensus
The author of the meme here makes a good point. Scientific consensus pertains to the agreement of the data, not the human beings involved.
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