The point made at left is a good one, but unfortunately it doesn’t work like this. Many Americans see things like medicine, civil engineering, and aeronautics as real, but environmental science (the work of a combination of physicists, chemists, biologists/ecologists) …
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Doubt and Certainty
Doubt is what characterizes the scientific method. Scientists don’t want to believe they are right; they want to subject what they believe to rigorous testing in an attempt to disprove the thinking of the day, hoping for a better explanation …
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Americans Have Little Passion for Science, But That May Be Changing
Over the years, I’ve heard scientists lament that very few Americans have any real interest or ability in the subject. “Go into a high school classroom,” a friend who works with electric motors once told me, “And ask a bunch …
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It’s a Damn Good Thing American Consumers Can’t Do 6th Grade Math
A 100% reduction in liver cancer would mean that there would be exactly zero of the disease. What would a 430% reduction mean? Must be similar to Trump’s 1500% price reduction in various consumer items. Supposedly, grocery stores are paying …
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The Validity of the Evangelicals
Richard Rohr sounds like a good, intelligent guy to me. But of his statement at left: bullcrap. The evangelicals have been noted for their hypocrisy long before Trump was born, and will be taking absurd positions on political life as …
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Planning for Our Country’s Future
Long before Trump came along, the United States was a country driven by short-sightedness. I noticed from the time I was a young man that corporate decisions were based on quarterly profits, not strategies crafted to guide long-term success. Of …
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Oklahoma Schools Embrace Turning Point USA
I was disappointed to learn that every public high school in Oklahoma will soon have a Turning Point USA chapter in it, to “counter the woke indoctrination.” Here’s a data point that may explain Oklahoma’s extreme approach to education: The …
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RIP, Activist and Primatologist Jane Goodall
Our civilization has lost one of its giants with the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall. One of the great primatologists with her exhaustive study of chimpanzees, she became even better known for her conservatorship of the natural world. About her …
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What’s Next in the Rejection of Science?
At left is another example of a trend within American society that will either: 1) Remain indefinitely, and expand to become an even more vicious force on our society than it already is, or 2) Retreat to a point that …
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Humor in Atheism
Over the years, I’ve read the works of many of the top atheists in the English-speaking world: mainly Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. I’ve noticed that, to a person, they have a fairly well-sharpened wit. The guy at …
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