This is from an old friend, Peter Spitzer, MD (pictured), a fellow alumnus of the William Penn Charter School, class of 1973, who went on to specialize in infectious diseases. I feel fortunate to be a part of a monthly …
Category: Renewables – Science
Vaccination Exemption
Let’s start from the beginning. There is no such thing as a “vaccination exemption.” And even if there were, you don’t need one. No one can wrestle you to the ground and stab you with a needle. That said, in …
Tagged with: cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, rabies, scarlet fever, smallpox, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus, yellow fever
God Works in Mysterious Ways
What to make of the meme here? Re: the existence of God, it’s a proposition one either accepts or rejects. Speaking strictly for myself, from my years as a small boy, I’ve always been impressed with Occam’s Razor, the idea …
Intellectual Humility Is as Out of Fashion as Bell-Bottom Jeans
The quote at left has been attributed to many of the world’s wisest people. Certainly the concept of Socratic Wisdom, i.e., “if I’m wise in any sense it’s because I know nothing,” goes back 2300+ years. This from ThoughtCo.com: Socratic …
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Tagged with: climate deniers
Church v State
The separation of church and state is one of many social and political breakthroughs that resulted from the Enlightenment, aka the Age of Reason, in the 17th and 18th Centuries. It forms the cornerstone Americans cherish;; it’s the essential difference …
Admiration for Our Scientists
What Brian Greene says here is correct, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. As my colleague Wally Rippel points out, very few Americans, especially young ones, cannot even name (let alone admire) a single living scientist.
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Have We Reached the End of the Line?
A considerable amount of evidence points to the “evolutionary cul de sac” theory in anthropology, the concept that humankind has progressed to a point that its own destruction is imminent. We have big brains, but we’re a horribly tribal and …
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Rejection of Science May Be Lethal, Rethink This While You Still Can
A reader presented the meme at left. My response: I’m sure you’re quite skilled with Google searches. But that’s quite an accusation to level against 1.01 million U.S. doctors, 5.5 million nurses, and the entire rest of this country’s medical …
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Tagged with: cults
How Science Gets Done
Questioning existing scientific beliefs, forming new hypotheses, conducting experiments, analyzing the results, writing papers, subjecting them to peer review, and, if everything suggests that the findings are correct, publishing the new theory broadly….all of this is the way scientists do …
“12X Better Than Solar Panels? Invention Takes Country by Storm! Invest Now!”
Technology “leaked from NASA.” Rumors say it’s the most efficient new source of energy. To me, nothing says high efficiency energy generation better than a fan belt and a rubber mallet.
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