Recently the Jonah Lehrer scandal was raised again when he was paid $20,000 to speak on his journalistic dishonesty by the Knight Foundation. I cynically…
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Published 23 Dec 2012
Classification and the DSM
More from my forthcoming book with Malte Ebach. Last post for the year, folks. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders This text, known…
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Published 19 Dec 2012
Classification and the periodic table
It might be thought that classification in the special and historical sciences is occasionally atheoretical, but that in the general sciences, physics and chemistry, it…
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Published 1 Sep 2012
Begging questions about philosophy, science and everything else
Those who know me well take great care not to say (at least when I am in earshot) “That begs the question…” and mean by…
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Published 8 May 2012
Empirical Perspectives
Jim Goetz, frequent commenter here, has started up what looks to be a physics and science blog at Empirical Perspectives. Go visit and make rude…
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Published 21 Apr 2012
Community, unbelief, and the rise of secularism
One of the things that losing full use of a limb causes, is that everything takes four times as long as it used to. So…
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