Category Archives: Censorship
Goodbye freedom
Ten years ago tomorrow tonight I was watching an episode of West Wing, and, as I do, channel surfing during the ads. One channel showed a fire in the World Trade Centre, which less than a month earlier I had … Continue reading
Did Synthese bow to Intelligent Design pressure?
A while back I published a paper in a special edition of Synthese on “Evolution and its rivals”. My paper was titled “Are Creationists Rational?” in which I argued that yes, in a bounded sense they are. I was very … Continue reading
Filed under Academe, Censorship, Creationism and Intelligent Design, Evolution, Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Religion
Statism and Wikileaks
So, I have not said much about Wikileaks because it is as discussed a topic as can be, but I’m feeling curmudgeonly, so here goes. Regular programming will resume after this rant. Dogs gotta howl, cats gotta kill small things, … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Politics, Rant
Do not pity progessives
From an article at Truthdig entitled “Do not pity the Democrats” by Chris Hedges, this opening paragraph: There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Journalism, Politics, Sermon
Repo Link
So many links, and so little time (I’m preparing subjects!) Ray Kurzweil responds to PZ Myers’ claim that he doesn’t understand the brain, by showing that he doesn’t understand biology. Why Uner-Tan Syndrome is not evidence for evolution, again. That’s … Continue reading
EFA Summarises Australian Party policies on censorship
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Filed under Australian stuff, Censorship, Internet filtering, Politics
Australian internet filter dead in water
Forners may not be aware of an extremely boring federal election in Australia right now. Indeed, few Australians seem aware of this. This is as it should be. Elections that are Interesting usually turn out to be Dangerous. But there … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Australian stuff, Censorship, Internet filtering, Politics
The Evil Links I
Why are there more Christian congregations where there is more crime? On Quasispecies; Abbie notes an open source paper in FEBS on viral quasispecies. I worry that it fails to attend to the work of Sergey Gavrilets on holey landscapes, … Continue reading
The Links Strike Back
Today we have a new science blogging site, Scientopia, that takes many of the emigrés from Scienceblogs. When I get the time I’ll update the links at the right. A discussion on the use of “respect” ensued. Some of those … Continue reading
Filed under Australian stuff, Biology, Censorship, Evolution, General Science, History, Humor, Links, Politics, Religion, Species and systematics
The first casualty
The increasing intention of western and non-western governments to censor the internet is usually put in terms of “child protection”, although it is very unlikely to be affected by censorship, merely by using uncensorable techniques like Torrents. But one has … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Politics, Rant
