Through the centuries, science and religion have had a tumultuous relationship. There have been numerous attempts to unite the two, e.g., Thomas Aquinas’s 13th Century attempt to prove the existence of God with unaided reason, Descartes’s 17th Century five different …
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Understanding Vaccinations
From a reader: Ever heard, “You can’t fix stupid”? Well, I think there’s definitely a level of stupidity that is incurable and that is to such an extent that it is endangering Humankind. It really is and that’s a gigantic …
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Dealing with the Delta Variant: “Tennessee Pastor the Personification of a Clear and Present Danger”
How does one respond to a congregation of worshippers being told that the Delta variant is a hoax and that those who choose to come to church in masks will be ejected from the building? This doesn’t bode well for …
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No One Knowingly Believes Lies
The claim at left is completely untrue. There are people who knowingly believe lies? Some people wish to be controlled? Ah….no. Everyone rejects propaganda and manipulation. What is happening here is that Trump supporters believe that their man is honorable …
Tagged with: anti-capitalist socialist path, Anti-vaxxers believe that government and the medical community have formed a conspiracy to take away their freedoms, Climate deniers believe scientists are corrupt, Trump supporters believe that the election was stolen from him by leftist radicals, Trump supporters believe that their man is honorable and truly patriotic
Newton’s Laws of Motion
A photo from the 1940s. Holy cats. This doesn’t show a marvelous command of Newton’s Laws of Motion, does it? 300 years later, some of us seem to have a tough time predicting what will happen to that baby in …
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Quantum Mechanics Will Shake You Up
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1924, the principle on which solar PV is based. Yet it was really Max Planck who set the stage for this two full decades …
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Disinformation Can Be Deadly
As we look down the barrel of the first, and almost definitely not the last, of the variants of COVID-19, we are dealing with the very significant percentage of the U.S. population that refuses to get vaccinated, a phenomenon that …
Living in an Anti-Intellectual Culture
Dr. George Kiser, Professor Emeritus of Politics and Government in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State made the comment at left. It’s a vicious cycle, in that anti-intellectualism emboldens ignorant people, whose statements tend to dominate social …
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For Some, Scientific Illiteracy is a Marketing Brand
From this: When it comes to dangerous misinformation about the pandemic, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is among the most ridiculous politicians in the country. It was just last week when the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was pushed over the edge by Johnson’s hostility …
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Home Composter
Here’s one of those kitchen appliances that turns table scraps into compost. Anyone who thinks there is a net environmental benefit to plugging in a heating element and running it for 4 – 20 hours is a moron. Here are …
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