It seems that there are three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now: Progressives, who are calling for the decarbonization of our transportation and energy sectors, simply because this is what our scientists are begging us to do, …
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There is nothing incorrect about the graphic here, and there is no doubt that, for young people who may not be academically inclined, the career path on the right makes sense. Having said that, the most obvious rebuttal here is …
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of theories that seek to explain why there have been no verified stories of contact with extraterrestrials. One is that they know exactly who we are, and have concluded that we offer them no value. …
The point of the “survey” here, of course, is to goad ignorant people into claiming that doctors can say and do anything they like, by way of treating disease, because their free speech is protected under the First Amendment to …
When my son was perhaps 11, I took him camping for a few days in the High Sierras with some friends. We needed to buy permits at the regional ranger station, and I noticed that it was replete with cross-sections …
Yesterday, a reader whom I know personally sent out a mass email featuring a video full of false and misleading information designed to show that renewable energy is actually worse for the environment than burning fossil fuels. He prefaced the …
It’s easy to see where Harrison Ford is coming from here. Personally, I’m not too concerned about the denial of science in its most visible forms, e.g., QAnon and the flat Earthers. Even the COVID and climate deniers don’t scare …
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That last paragraph might be a tad aggressive in a conversation with what you now know to be an omnipotent being. I agree with its content, but I would have kept those thoughts to myself.
What Aristotle said here is vitally important to a successful life. There is a problem, however, in that some things are objectively true and others objectively false. If you try to “be critical and evaluate what you believe in,” and …
From the late 19th Century until Einstein published his work on special relativity in 1905, a great number of scientists believed that physics had gotten to the point of a near complete understanding of the universe. This was probably due …
