Set theory and its representation by Venn Diagrams have been around long before I was a boy in 6th grade math class, and we spent probably a month on this discipline that was considered very important at the time. For …
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Trafficking in Bull****
An anti-vaxxer sent me the meme here. In actuality, Australia’s vaccination rate is 84.6%, and it has one of the lowest per capita death rates in the world, at 471/M. The problem with these people seems to be that they …
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Grid Reliability and Renewable Energy — Dispelling a Few Myths
Opponents of clean energy claim that adding more renewable sources to the grid mix makes it unreliable–but is that true? A recent report from Yale 360, published by the Yale School of the Environment, takes on this important question. A great deal …
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No Quick and Easy End to QAnon-Style Conspiracy Theorists
As suggested here, the QAnoners of the world have a handy defense, one that’s going to be hard to beat. They claim that the fact-checkers that expose their ideas as silly and baseless were actually put in place because their …
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Humility and Science
Here’s another good statement on science and the limits of our understanding. Whatever the proportion of known to unknown may be, one thing is certain: it’s always improving.
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Trusting Science
When you think about it, the meme here makes the exact opposite point it’s intended to. In all four cases, business created and marketed a product, only to have science come along and study it, determine it was dangerous, and …
We March According To Our IQ
A few years ago we had the “March for Science,” and it occurred to me that most of the people who participated in it were pretty bright folks. It would be interesting to know their average IQ; I would speculate …
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Science Gets It Right, But Not Always Immediately
American toddlers in the mid-1950s wore “baby shoes” like the pair shown here. It turned out that the theory that young feet needed external support in order to walk properly was later discredited. Yet, to have insinuated itself into our …
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Perhaps the People in West Virginia Should …..
Perhaps indeed. Keep in mind, however that voters in states that are economic and moral hellholes are almost completely unconcerned about “quality of life” as you and I might define it. They want their state white, Christian, deregulated, science-blind, and …
Religion: Whither Thou Goest?
This is an interesting observation. One wonders about the future of monotheism in a world that is increasingly scientific, though barbaric at the same time. Personally, I don’t think that individual horrific periods of time, e.g., the Spanish Inquisition, that …
