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4.9.2013
Scientific Consensus and the Argument from Authority
I wrote last week of the challenge of answering the question of when we have enough evidence. That question is related to another, or perhaps another series of questions, because we so often lack the time and the knowledge to / read more…
Posted in Uncategorized
4.3.2013
Finding Enough Evidence
A student raised her hand in class the other day and asked a simple question: “How do you know when you have enough evidence?”
Posted in Education / Pseudoscience / Science / Uncategorized
Tagged in evidence
4.1.2013
Same-Sex Marriage and Logical Fallacies
The issue of whether couples of the same sex should be allowed by law to marry stirs passions on both sides of the question, resulting in a heated debate between those who believe in marriage equality, and those who believe / read more…
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged in gay marriage / logical fallacies / proposition 8 / same-sex marriage / supreme court
3.26.2013
Forrest Fenn’s Buried Treasure
An elderly millionaire, a heroic collector to his admirers and a compulsive looter to his detractors, beset by intimations of mortality and contemplating the return of his body to the soil he has spent his life sifting through, assembles a / read more…
Posted in Nature / Uncategorized / Urban Legends
Tagged in Forrest Fenn / Santa Fe / treasure
3.19.2013
The Genius of Sherlock Holmes
If Wikipedia is to be believed, filming resumes this week for series three of the BBC show Sherlock. I have a nearly delirious affection for this show: aside from the dismal second episode, it has been superbly well done, mixing realism / read more…
Posted in TV & Media / Uncategorized
Tagged in Sherlock Holmes
3.12.2013
The Decalogue Stone
A friend of mine recently drew my attention to an article in the online magazine Tablet concerning one of those minor archaeological puzzles that I had once known about and then forgot: an eighty-ton rock in the New Mexico desert, known as / read more…
Posted in Pseudoscience / Uncategorized / Urban Legends
Tagged in Decalogue Stone / Eva and Hobe / New Mexico
3.2.2013
Chemophobia
As a chemist there’s almost nothing that annoys me as much as chemophobia; the belief that chemicals – especially synthetic chemicals – are inherently bad. In supermarkets I see things labeled “all natural” or “organic” and cringe.
Posted in Uncategorized
2.27.2013
The Reintroduction of Wolves
There is still one corner of New Mexico where, if you are so inclined, you may fall asleep at night with a chance to hear wolves howling in the distance: the Gila National Forest, near Silver City, where less than / read more…
Posted in Nature / Science / Uncategorized
Tagged in livestock / New Mexico / wolf / wolves / Yellowstone
2.22.2013
Animals can’t talk, deer can’t read and trees are only here to enhance human life.
Most of us have seen those animal crossing signs that speckle the roads around the U.S. and up until now I thought that it went without saying that the signs are for human benefit, not for the animals themselves. Now / read more…
Posted in Nature / TV & Media / Uncategorized
Tagged in critical thinking / deer crossing / kathleen o'brien wilhelm
2.19.2013
In Defense of Football – Sort Of
I wrote last week (well, two weeks ago, technically) of the controversy haunting pro football and the safety of its players. I suggested that, whatever the dangers of the sport, the ethical implications of being a fan of it are / read more…
Posted in Health / TV & Media / Uncategorized
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