As suggested at left, some folks believe that psychiatric drugs cause gun violence, reasoning that many shooters are, in fact, on such drugs. Apparently it doesn’t occur to them that anyone who commits such a crime is mentally ill, and …
Category: Renewables – Science
Banning Abortion Is Problematic To People of Reason
The anti-abortion folks have a ton of problems if they are to back up their beliefs with rational thought. Here’s one of them.
Avoiding the Next Pandemic
Unless you’re a QAnoner and you believe Bill Gates is trying to enslave the world’s population, you regard him as one of Earth’s most effective philanthropists, primarily for his work in infectious diseases. His current focus is helping our civilization …
Order vs. Chaos
A Radiolab podcast that I happened across a few weeks ago presented the work of certain scientists to the effect that there are probably no overriding principles of order to the universe, and that, in general, “chaos reigns,” as they …
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Science Is Beautiful
It could be argued that the meme here is an attack on religion, and that’s partly true. Yet what makes it so remarkable is the idea that there are no “universal truths.” That’s quite a statement, when you think about …
New Product Available, Offered To Morons Only
With each passing year, as the ignorance of the average American becomes ever more profound, products are being put on the market, designed to extract money from their wallets. For $329, you can have this “meticulously designed Tempest Weather System …
Rejection of Science
Actually, let’s all think back on that. Did any of us grow up disbelieving in science? We certainly all had people in our lives who sucked at science, but up until recently, they were thought of as merely stupid, and …
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Omnism
If you have to believe something that isn’t founded in science, I suppose omnism is as good as anything. It certainly sounds better than nihilism, i.e., that we live meaningless lives, alone, surrounded by an icy cold universe that is …
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Here Comes the Starship Enterprise
This fellow claims that his plane’s propulsion mechanism consists of two wires that are charged to have a potential difference of 40K volts, the first of which ionizes nitrogen atoms, causing them to be strongly attracted to the second, via …
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America’s Cult of Ignorance
Illinois State Professor Emeritus George Kiser gave us the marvelous quote here. It’s not clear when he actually wrote this, but, since he’s obviously referring to the United States, it was probably fairly recently. Yes, as suggested below, America has …
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