What matters, from the point of view of engaging in the scientific discourse, is what you can demonstrate to other participants in that discourse. As far as your scientific activity is concerned, your other beliefs are your own private affair.
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Posted on March 24, 2008 5:17 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Objectively judging facts? Objectively judging friends?
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Posted on February 23, 2008 4:03 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This New York Times op-ed, to be precise. My questions for Paul Davies can be boiled down to these two: What kinds of explanations, precisely, are you asking science to deliver to you? Just why do you think it is...
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Posted on November 24, 2007 5:12 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Ed Cone I found one of those stories that makes me love the Wall Street Journal: "In the Philippines, Ex-Judge Consults Three Wee Friends": As a trial-court judge, Florentino V. Floro Jr. acknowledged that he regularly sought the counsel...
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Posted on September 18, 2007 1:39 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is there a good way to determine the effects of substances that are ubiquitous in our environment?
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Posted on July 18, 2007 6:28 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks