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2009-10-05
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I just wanted a space where I could write in a semi-serious fashion about topics that were.. bothersome or interesting. This will probably range anywhere from moral issues, skepticism and.. sobering explanations of drunken tirades.
Other Tags: Moral Issues, The Love of Wisdom, Biology, Odds, Science
Latest Blog Posts
- Richard Dawkins: Activist or Philosopher?on Jul 8, 2010I'm back after the long weekend and ready to post. This topic came to me through an unresolved argument that I had with one of my professors, who was teaching a medieval philosophy class. It was a one on one class, where I still had to do a presentat...
- Mixed Martial Arts: The Staph Infection Conspiracy Theoryon Jun 30, 2010 in MMA Medicine Health conspiracy Mixed Martial Arts Staph infection The Ultimate Fighter Matt Hamill Keith JardineMy article on pets and inheritance wasn't as well received as I'd hoped, but I with this post I'll get back to my bread and butter, skepticism. I'm going to have to bring in a topic that I haven't talked about much, but does take up quite a few night...
- A Glimpse at Pet InheritanceWell for my last posting I had to read a fair bit about pet inheritance and I didn't manage to cover all the subject matter I wanted to cover. This post will complete my thoughts about pet inheritance and I'll have some new subject matter to post abo...
- Dogs Inherits 12 million - A Look at Reporting and the Mediaon Jun 22, 2010 in Media Spin Inheritence Gail Posner Charity Warren Buffet Philanthropy Bill Gates Leona HemlsleyWell I've noticed that my postings on naturalism are among my least popular for some reason. I'm not sure what that reason is, but it's interesting anyway. I think they are of the quality I try to maintain, but with this post I'll go in a very differ...
- Menopause a Natural Processes: A Different Appeal to Naturalismon Jun 18, 2010 in Amy Allina Naturalism National Women's Health Network Death Menopause Selling SicknessThis post is kind of an extension of a post I did a while back entitled, "A Natural Arrogance" which was about the appeal to naturalism as a way of implying safety. That kind of appeal obviously isn't true and there is no direct correlation between s...
- B. Alan Wallace and His Criticism of MaterialistsWell, I'm glad to see that my first post about B. Alan Wallace was pretty well received as far as I tell. I wasn't sure how interesting it would be, but I was sure that something had to be said about his criticisms and it also responds to the argumen...
- B. Alan Wallace and his Criticism of Skepticson Jun 8, 2010 in Hyperbolic Doubt Science B. Alan Wallace Skeptico Steve Novella The SGU SkepticismHi, I hope you've all had a good weekend. It was my birthday over the weekend and I had a pretty good time, but at the same time found something I had to post about. Criticism of skeptics always interests me, whether it is someone saying that they ar...
- The Burden of Proof: And how it Applies to Near Death ExperiencesHi, I apologize for the delay in making a new post, but I want to keep the quality as high as possible. That is to say I need both to have well thought out ideas, and to have the motivation/time to write something intelligible and hopefully thought p...
- The Psychic Mafia by Lamar Keene: An examination of the book and the ManHi and welcome to the true midweek. Normally I have a topic worthy of discussion, and I was going to talk about how the someones experience of pain could be 'wrong', but instead I just finished reading the Psychic Mafia which recounts the life of Lam...
- Thinking About True Belief and How We Are All True BelieversHi, welcome to the midweek, thanks for the comments and feel free to send links of any further information if there is something I am missing. This blog will be about true belief, the nature of it and trying to put it in a comparable light. I g...
- From Paley to Hawking: Design and the Anthropic PrincipleHi, I hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday and is looking forward to some light weekend reading (turned out to be not so light...) as I finish a trilogy of posts on probability. This post will be a summation of the arguments of William Paley, and...
- A Deck of Cards Both Ways: An analysis of The Boeing 747 Argument and A Speech from The Watchmenon May 27, 2010 in The God Delusion Boeing 747 Fred Hoyle The Watchmen Probability The Selfish Gene Richard DawkinsWelcome to the blog on a sunny Thursday afternoon. I liked my last post and thought that it covered the subject matter fairly well, but I still had a couple issues that I wanted to get to but wasn't able to in my last post. They really pick up where...
- Humans Are Naturally Poor at Gauging ProbabilityHi again, I hope everyone had a good long weekend or has a good long weekend coming up. Thanks for the upvotes on Reddit, and I'll try to keep the posts coming. I still have a lot of future topics in mind, so I don't anticipate any long delays betwee...
- Seeing Isn't BelievingThis is a bit of a dedication to the previous color scheme I was using and the after images some of those previous readers experienced after reading some of my longer posts. In this post I will show some optical illusions, which are always fun to see...
- The Chicken Or the Egg? Part Deux! (A history and example)Hi again, I got some interesting and well thought out responses and general interest on my Chicken or the Egg post and thought it was worthy of a follow up. I really appreciate those who took the time to read the whole post, and thank those who...
- Volvox Carterii and Death of 'Selfish' AltruismRecently there was a study done on the Volvox Carterii (pictured to the right), that managed to isolate a gene responsible for altruism in that bacteria. I will do my best to summerize the information that will be relevant for this post, but the ne...
- A Natural ArroganceI've been thinking of a number of topics to write about and have came up with quite a few good topics for posting, but I think this one might be the topic that I see flaunted around the most without it even being analyzed. This one refers to the comm...
- A Natural ArrogenceI've been thinking of a number of topics to write about and have came up with quite a few good topics for posting, but I think this one might be the topic that I see flaunted around the most without it even being analyzed. This one refers to the comm...
- Interview Questions and Lying in an Job Interviewon May 13, 2010I've wanted to write on this topic for a while, and this post has been bouncing in and out of prominent thought in my head for a while now. The topic really came to mind when I talked to two friends who were...
- The Rawlsian Agreement for Health Careon Mar 25, 2010I guess I haven't been drinking often enough to keep posting, but I thought I'd get back to it and try to give a few weekly words of attempted wisdom. One thing I have been doing lately is listening to a lot of The Skeptics Guide...