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Month: September 2011

Education/Literacy/Society

People are scary in a way that numbers are not

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Praj / 7 Comments

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...

Blog Dump

Stuff to read

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

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, ...

Blog Dump

Presidents’ experts and menstruation as pathology

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

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...

Politicization

Misplaced obsession with ranking anti-science behavior

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

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”:...

Academia/Misc

The blogosphere cont.

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

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...

Misc

On the blogosphere and readers’ responsibilities

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

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 Change

Climate science as astronomy

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

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...

Philosophy

On naturalism

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

Writing in the Times, Timothy Williamson criticizes the dogma of naturalism: Which other disciplines count as science? Logic? Linguistics? History? Literary the...

Academia

I sometimes feel sorry for the humanities

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

If more people appreciate the similarities between much basic research and the humanities, we might hear more scientists defending themselves like Stanford prof...

Blog Dump/Philosophy

Philosophy of science nerd-fest

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Praj / 3 Comments

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...

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