This stat on Republican scientists sounds about right, but that’s simply a result of the movement of the GOP to the ultra-right and its present-day radical anti-science position. Go back 70 years and look at the demographics at that time. …
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Reverence for Science
Scientism is “an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities).” I think anyone would grant that applying science to moral philosophy …
What’s Up with the Shortage of Teachers?
Don’t forget about exposing them and their students to gun fire. We can’t pass a single iota of common sense gun laws. But are we making too big a deal out of all this? Our attitude towards schooling as a …
Respect for Science
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the fellow who brought Turkey into the modern world, early in the 20th Century, transforming a backward and constantly warring part of the Ottoman Empire into a stable, secular, industrial nation. What Atatürk said at left …
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Restoration of Core American Values
German-born playwright Bertold Brecht escaped Nazi Germany in 1933; after brief stints in Prague and Paris, he ultimately landed in Copenhagen. At left is the warning he gave the rest of the world when Hitler fell in 1945. The reason …
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About Half of Active-Duty U.S. Military (Less Than One-Third of Officers) Supports Trump
Trump’s approval rating is falling in all demographics, and that includes active-duty military, where now, almost exactly half say that the country is imperiled by Trump’s incompetence and/or poor behavior. To that I would add:
Imagine the Lives of the Quakers in These Times of Brutality and Ignorance
I had the good fortune to spend my K – 12 years at the world’s oldest Quaker school, Penn Charter, founded in Philadelphia in 1689. As the name suggests, the school was put in place by William Penn, the man …
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Respect for Science
Here’s a T-shirt that communicates an important message. Of course, one might think that the message is so obvious and irrefutable to 99% of the world’s people that it does not need to be communicated. But those living outside the …
