Who ya gonna call?
Considering how down to earth This Old House magazine is, a seemingly serious piece on ghosts must be a joke, right?Posted on October 27, 2007 11:12 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Island of Doubt
An irregular exploration of the struggle between the power of rational discourse and the scientific method on one hand, and the forces of superstition and dogma on the other.
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James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
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- Amtrak: The 2008 election linchpin
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Inspiration
The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle
in the Dark,
by Carl Sagan
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A poem by Yehuda Amichai:
The
Place
Where We Are Right
The Meaning of the
Island of Doubt
Author's site: cyamid.net
--- H. L. Mencken
By doubting we come to inquiry; and through inquiry we perceive truth.
--- Peter Abelard
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
-- Richard Dawkins
As for evolution, it happened. Deal with it.
-- Michael Shermer.
superstition:
Lucky seven silliness
Since July 7, 1007, there have been dozens of days that could have brought at least as good, if not better, fortunes than this past SaturdayPosted on July 9, 2007 11:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I don't care what frakkin' sign Neko Case is born under!
I probably shouldn't get bent out of shape over this, but the intrusion of superstitious nonsense into the culture I have chosen to embrace just makes me so angry sometimes that I just have to exploit my blog pulpit to vent.Posted on April 10, 2007 10:09 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Very superstitious
The lead story in today's Science section of the New York Times isn't really about science at all, but its opposite: superstition. The notion that we're hard-wired to believe in a god has received a lot of attention of late,...Posted on January 23, 2007 7:05 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
