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...
Month: September 2011
Stuff to read
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, ...
Presidents’ experts and menstruation as pathology
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...
Misplaced obsession with ranking anti-science behavior
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”:...
The blogosphere cont.
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...
On the blogosphere and readers’ responsibilities
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 ...
Climate science as astronomy
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...
On naturalism
Writing in the Times, Timothy Williamson criticizes the dogma of naturalism: Which other disciplines count as science? Logic? Linguistics? History? Literary the...
I sometimes feel sorry for the humanities
If more people appreciate the similarities between much basic research and the humanities, we might hear more scientists defending themselves like Stanford prof...
Philosophy of science nerd-fest
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...