Thony Christie has an excellent historical piece on algorithms. I didn’t know half of what he writes about.
Nick Smyth, at Three Quarks Daily has an infuriating but thought-provoking piece on demarcating science from pseudoscience. If I had time, I’d respond.
There is now a campaign to get the English libel laws changed in the wake of the decision in favour of chiropractics against science writer Simon Singh. This will have a wider effect than just England, since most Commonwealth countries are common law countries in which English precedent has some standing. We might get rid of the even more draconian NSW libel laws.
Chris Mooney is interviewed on Morning Joe, an American NBC morning show. The fact that Chris is not allowed to make more than a one sentence statement at a time is an ironic and humorous illustration of my previous comment about the nature of the modern media.
Darren Naish has a new dinosaur book out.
Also because the libel law covers anything that can be read in England. And Wales. So this blog is subject to them too.
Luckily the libel law itself doesn’t have standing, so anyone can happily say that it is an ass.
Bogus, even.
It seems I am somewhat behind the times. The libel laws were revised throughout Australia in 2006.
It’s my understanding that Congress is now taking steps to prevent the “export” of libel cases to England over this precise issue. Since US libel laws put the onus upon the accuser to demonstrate libel, and that truth can never be libelous, hopefully this will apply some pressure to Westminster to fix the law.
Thank you kind sir.
Take your time, but please do respond. I ran aground here:
Sure looks like a false dichotomy to me.
(And when are we going to get a preview capability? My old eyes don’t catch typos easity any more.)
Having thought more about it, I think Smyth mischaracterizes the issue, and say why here.
They’re at it (the chiropractics) in NZ too…
http://tinyurl.com/mdv5vp
AJB.