People are scary in a way that numbers are not
Two months ago TNC inveighed against reformers who depend solely on statistics to explain human motivations. They are blind to the possibility that changes lead...
Two months ago TNC inveighed against reformers who depend solely on statistics to explain human motivations. They are blind to the possibility that changes lead...
Here it goes… 1. David Bruggeman and W.H. Dean smartly pile some more on Mooney’s latest. But… 2. …Chris continues to go another round, ...
Via Shaping Science Policy, and to also to beat the science and politics meme some more, here is an STS scholar on presidents and scientific knowledge: Scientif...
Chris Mooney got a bit upset when Alan Berezow claimed “for every anti-science Republican that exists, there is at least one anti-science Democrat”:...
To offer some final thoughts on the blogosphere, here’s Freddie yet again: I guess I just wish that the blogosphere (and forgive the collective indictment...
While I try to stay within the confines of science studies, Freddie DeBoer’s latest missive warrants a response. Not content to simply critique the flaws ...
Here’s Matthew Bailes on climate science and astronomy: It may come as a big surprise to many, but there is actually no difference between how science wor...
Writing in the Times, Timothy Williamson criticizes the dogma of naturalism: Which other disciplines count as science? Logic? Linguistics? History? Literary the...
If more people appreciate the similarities between much basic research and the humanities, we might hear more scientists defending themselves like Stanford prof...
UPDATE: In the comments, Paul notes that my truncated quote somewhat misstates both him and Feyerabend. I should have been more careful as I know Feyerabend pro...