Category Archives: Media
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 man with two links
I’m going to put the poster, if I can find it, for the 80s movies I use as my titles for these links posts, from now on. Stephan Hartmannand Jonah Schupbach critically review Michael Strevens’ book Depth, on scientific explanation. Drake … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Evolution, Freedom, History, Links, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Social dominance, Social evolution
On recent developments, and a prospective
So, we have a woman PM. I’m not particularly impressed by that – we should have had equal representation in the Parliament thirty years ago and it’s no great achievement to get a female executive now. We beat the US. … Continue reading
Filed under Australian stuff, Censorship, Freedom, Media, Politics, Rant
The Link Purple
Quite a few links today…
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Filed under Australian stuff, Censorship, Education, Epistemology, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Evolution, History, Internet filtering, Links, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Pop culture, Religion, Science, Species and systematics, Systematics, Technology
More journalistic idiocy about evolution
This, from SBS World News, a usually relatively reliable public news service in Australia, on their report on the new hominid. I sent them this message: I have to criticise the moronic commentary in the World News tonight – No, … Continue reading
Zimmer's evolving blog post on X-woman
Carl Zimmer has a continually updated blog post on the mtDNA of “X-Woman”, which is being informed by his readers and experts. It’s a useful antidote to hasty and inaccurate reportage in the MSM, done well by a very good … Continue reading
Zimmer’s evolving blog post on X-woman
Carl Zimmer has a continually updated blog post on the mtDNA of “X-Woman”, which is being informed by his readers and experts. It’s a useful antidote to hasty and inaccurate reportage in the MSM, done well by a very good … Continue reading
On fear and risk
I haven’t had a rant/sermon in a while. My parents’ generation went through the second world war, fighting tyrants and ideologies that sought to control our everyday lives; for which reason they are sometimes called “the best generation”. Their parents’ … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Media, Politics, Race and politics, Religion, Sermon, Social evolution
Some interesting links
A speculative journal published by Elsevier may be dropped after it publishes AIDS denialism. The crisis of faith in rational economics of a Chicago economist… An article claiming that race as a biological concept got a bad rap. How Haiti … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Evolution, History, Humor, Links, Media, Politics, Race and politics
Linkage
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Ethics and Moral Philosophy, History, Media, Philosophy, Science
