Monthly Archives: July 2010
#SBFail
The title is the Twitter hashtag for the ongoing implosion at Scienceblogs. Now several more have left the building, PZ is on strike (and so Twittering up a storm), others are thinking about it, and people are making snide satires … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Journalism
Herding cats, ethically
There is a famous ad on Youtube in which cat wranglers herd cats to a final destination (for slaughtering? really?) as a metaphor for providing IT services. What is underpinning that humor is that domestic cats are not, typically, herd … Continue reading
Filed under Academe, Administrative, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Journalism, Rant
Creation, a personal reflection on the movie
I just saw the movie Creation, with Paul Bettany as Darwin and Jennifer Connelly (Bettany’s real life wife) as Emma Darwin. And I am very pleasantly surprised how well it worked as a film, as well as how effectively it … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, History, Media, Pop culture
Advice from the Little Mermaid?
My daughter watched The Little Mermaid repeatedly as a child. I now wonder if that was sending the right messages… H/t Jennifer Ouellette.
Filed under Humor
Names and nomenclature in classification
One of the main focuses in the literature, especially in biology, regarding classification is the problem of nomenclature, of names. Many treat classification as being all about names, an error that is akin to mistaking not the map for the … Continue reading
An Officer and a Link
FAPP reply to Godfrey-Smith. Same old same old… Josh Rosenau is on fire. First he discusses recent polling on evolution and creation in America. Then he tests the hypothesis that the Affirmative Atheists have made a dent in religious belief … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Epistemology, Evolution, Freedom, History, Humor, Links, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Religion, Social evolution
The Bastards are emerging
We have now had three posts on Opinionated Bastards . Lorax on grant funding, Mike Haubrich on why religion and science are incompatible on an inductive inference, and now Eamon Knight on why pedophile priests and women priests are equivalent … Continue reading
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Filed under Administrative, General Science, Humor, Religion, Science
Raiders of the Lost Link
Has biology disproved free will and moral responsibility? Evolution and Politics, a Cautionary Tale Opacity and reference – a discussion about Dan Sperber and Maurice Bloch by György Gergely An Open Letter to Journal Reviewers The Pope’s Astronomer Apes and … Continue reading
Filed under Academe, Biology, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Links, Philosophy, Religion, Science
The philosophy of geology
Is there one? Neither a search through the Philosopher’s Index nor Google Scholar found much within the past century. I am crowdsourcing the question. This looks like an interesting, and not badly needed, gap in the philosophy of science. There’s … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, Science
