tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276010172011-04-21T21:20:01.731-07:00Skeptically Gulliblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809176895779657111noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601017.post-60422392975937418572007-06-02T09:30:00.000-07:002007-06-02T10:09:09.001-07:00

Here's something I've never thought about before: Charles Darwin and Karl Marx were contemporaries. Not only were they aware of each other's works, they corresponded. I'm currently reading Stephen Jay Gould's Ever Since Darwin, where he recounts some of Darwin and Marx's interaction:The most ardent materialists of the nineteenth century, Marx and Engels, were quick to recognize what Darwin had

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I'm busy reading Richard Dawkins' latest book, The God Delusion. It's interesting, if quite opinionated and arrogant, but there are quite a few things within its pages that I was surprised to learn of. One example is the existence of Cargo Cults in the Southwest Pacific. From wikipedia: Cargo cults have been recorded since the 19th century. The cult participants generally do not fully

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I read this interesting article the other day: Thatcher economist de-hypes climate debate"There is no greater threat to the people of this planet than the retreat from reason we see all around us today."I, personally, want to poke out my eyes when I read this article - but only because the author has a thesaurus stuck up his ass. What in the hell do ambit and adjure mean? But I do think he

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Could the biotech revolution finally be producing some fruit? This disease kills thousands every year - have we entered bridge two? Diabetes Breakthrough

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It's time for a revolution.I've noticed this for some time: I'm expected to show up for work at 9, but often I don't get into the idea of doing work until late morning. Then I break for lunch, and it takes a couple of hours to get back into the flow.When I've had consulting gigs, I've noticed that it's much easier to work. I sit down only when I'm ready to work, and I get up when I'm tired.

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Here was are, a day after the election. The Democrats are rejoicing that they have "swept" the elections, and Rumsfeld has resigned. Finally, say Democrats and liberals, our voice will be heard! Our freedoms will not be run over roughshod!Or will nothing change?Normally throwawayyourtv.org has a lot of liberal clips on it, ranging from BBC documentaries to Daily Show clips. This one, however,

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A recent episode of CNN's Broken Government series, Do Nothing Congress, made claims that Tom Delay was instrumental in creating the current political environment, through his escalation, to the expense of all else, of fundraising and re-election. Whoever caused it, it's becoming more and more clear to me that the center is no longer valued. Extremism, on both sides of the political spectrum,

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In the last week, I've watched several video clips from this site: Throw Away Your TV.Just now, I watched a few recent posts that really scared me - about the direction our country - the one whose leaders we vote for in a few weeks - is taking us.Fear in Political AdsThis is a continuing and growing theme in the President's arsinal. Apparently, only our current President can stop terrorism - but

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I can't help but continue to love Scott Adams.In his latest blog post, Sunday Blogging, he complains that the media fails to give him all the information he needs to make an informed opinion.For example, Iran has 25,000 Jewish citizens. The media made a big deal – and rightly so – about the president of Iran’s comments about “wiping Israel off the map,” and of his questioning the Holocaust. For

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Well, the verdict is in: either we're destined to become a super-race living in a post-singularity society, or we're doomed, all in the next 94 years. Experts: Technology Could Save or Destroy Civilization This CenturyI was tempted to launch into a diatribe about how the smartest people all gathered in one room can only talk about the obvious, but then I realized that there was probably a lot

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From joshvogel's livejournal blog:Bush's response to not acting on bin LadenSo, to summarize, we have a former President who sounds like he knows what he's talking about but is possibly factually incorrect, and a current President who makes no attempt to rebut the claims, choosing instead to spin his response into an answer about why he needs the power to wiretap our phones.

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This interview has gained some traction, and is sparking some intense political bashing. Wallace-Clinton Fox News Sunday interview transcript:Fox News Sunday, Interview With President Bill Clinton, 9/22/06Here's a video, although it's chopped up a bit from the transcript:Video: Clinton vs. Wallace on “Fox News Sunday”It looks like you can watch the whole thing on Fox's site as well, but good

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Back when I was writing Global Warming Pt III, I noticed that I had trouble finding scientists who supported claims that the evidence on global warming is inconclusive but that were also independent. Nearly everyone I found is involved with some an organization with a sciency name and funding from Exxon. It seemed fishy at the time, but I tried not to think about it too much - I mean, really,

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The quest for ethical stem cells continues. After the last flap, which I described in Ethical Stem Cells Pt II, now it's been announced that you can take stem cells from embryos that look dead - that is, have stopped growing for 24 or 48 hours. The work is described here: Stem cells made from 'dead' human embryo"Regardless of how you feel about personhood for embryos, if the embryo is dead, then

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I'm curious about the recent speeches at the UN General Assembly in New York. I'm tired of all this "Chavez claims Bush is the Devil" and Bush vs Ahmadinejad BS. I think a good place to start would be the speeches that they actually gave:Chavez: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htmBush: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060919-4.htmlAhmadinejad: http://www.globalsecurity.org/

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As I noted in a previous post, I am confused about the new hi-def DVD formats. Maybe I no longer need to be?Three's company: Warner patents all-in-one hybrid disc

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Citizens of Middlesbrough, England, have a new Big Brother to welcome into their lives. Reportedly, police have begun installing loudspeakers on their existing public security cameras, and alerting wrong-doers when they are being watched. So far, the police have broken up fights at bars, stopped illegal bicyclists, and embarrassed litterers, all without stepping on the scene. They have yet to

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My friend sent me this Newsweek link, An Alternate 9/11 HistoryThis article, I was surprised to learn, is actually offensive to me. I don't know who this columnist is - I doubt I've read him before - but his "opinion" is pure fantasy. I challenge this guy to name one president that has so clearly seen the issues, so effortlessly won over opponents, and so clearly done the right thing. He

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I never know for sure where Iran is coming from. On the one hand, the President was widely reputed in American papers to have stolen the election. He's a reported hardliner. He doesn't say anything when his people shout "Death to America." His country supplies bombs to Hezbollah. On the other hand, he seems like a nice guy in this Time Magazine interview, and although he supports some

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There's been a lot of speculation on tar Interweb about the coming video format wars: HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray. I'm not an expert on this nerdiness, but my understanding is this: HD-DVD has the advantage of being a cheap to manufacture upgrade to existing DVDs, while Blu-Ray has more storage capacity. I would think cheaper would be better, but with Sony putting their PS3 behind the Blu-Ray, it's

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Last week in my post Ethical Stem Cell Lines I pointed out that the researchers who did the study actually ended up destroying all of the embryos. Apparently I wasn't the only one who noticed. Scientists defend "ethical" stem cell experiment"You made our job a lot tougher," said [Sen. Arlen] SpecterFrom what I can glean from the media's retarded coverage of this (well this article is a little

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There have been some amazing discoveries by science recently. The earth is warming, ethical stem cells have been created, a supernova was witnessed happening, and a giant canyon in the Atlantic was mapped.Now, we finally have the answer to another burning question: Telephone telepathyRupert Sheldrake ... said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for

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I subscribed to some International related news feeds, in the hopes that I would get some non-US perspective about the news. A couple of the feeds deal with Asian news. I found this link today:Mao Zedong: the God of ChinaUnfortunately (for my personal goal to increase my own awareness), it appears this was not written by someone Chinese:Numerous Mao-backed movements, like the "Great Leap

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This is a few days old. Scientists have created ethical stem cell lines, by taking stem cells from embryos without destroying them in the process. 'Ethical' stem cell lines createdToo bad they threw the embryos away anyway. "Unfortunately what Professor Lanza did was entirely unethical because he generated and manipulated 16 human embryos and then threw them all away."D'oh!

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Police Inspector Terry Van Dillen said the issue was one of "common sense".Hehe. Boobs on BikesI don't have a comment on this.

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Mel Gibson was arrested this weekend for a DUI. Now the news stations are all abuzz about the newest twist: Gibson's alleged racist remarks during his arrest. I've been watching CNN's Headline news for the last 15 minutes, and heard three stories about Gibson.I can't believe no one cares about the real story here, though: Mel Gibson decided it was OK to get in his car and speed while he was

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Recenty, in my Making Children Cry post, a reader of this blog (1 of 3!) challenged my credibility, and the legitimicy of this blog:You are obviously not that intelligent, or trained in a profession that would qualify you to even make such a statement. Having a blog does not mean that your opinion is based on fact. Typing crap on a computer screen (especially worthless drivel like you have said

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My friend alerted me to some interesting links re: global warming. Canada's polar bears will be extinct within 25 years, scientist warnsMore species slide to extinctionThe assertion that polar bears are near extinction doesn't seem to be free of controversy:Polar Disasters: More Predictable Distortions of ScienceHere's another of the links, which, on the surface at least, seems more balanced:

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I've had some interesting conversations about Global Warming recently. I lamented in my last post on the topic (Global Cooling) that I hadn't seen any skeptical responses to the national report that recently came out.Fortunately, I have friends that keep up with this stuff.A Statistician SpeaksOverall, our committee believes that Dr. Mann’s assessments that the decade of the 1990s was the

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I had a discussion this weekend with a friend about the current era vs The Rennaissance. I think his point was that when you look back at our time, it will be recognized as a time of technological growth, but not of the growth of society or the improvement of mankind. Unfortunately, my memory is bad, so I can't get much further than that.What I do remember is that a central part of his point of

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Generally, I'm of the opinion that the United States, in dealing with people who are not citizens, should give them the same treatment as citizens with "God given rights." The right to a fair trial, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, etc.Up until recently, I was bothered by our treatment of captured "insurgents" in Iraq - I mean, shouldn't we give them some status, give them the same

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Thomas Hawk believes that Jill Greenberg is a child pornographer. Jill Greenberg is a Sick Woman Who Should Be Arrested and Charged With Child Abuse Although the children are not sexualized, I consider what she is doing child pornography of the worst kind.What is he all worked up about? Jill Greenberg's exhibit, End Times, posted in the Paul Kopeikin Gallery, shows small children at the

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People who know me know that I consider myself a Singularitarian.  I was first turned on to the idea by Ray Kurzweil, in The Age of Spiritual Machines, and later, in The Singularity is Near.I came across this link that does a pretty good job summarizing the idea, and also presents a pretty good reason to try to get there as soon as possible:Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5 I have had it. I

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Is this the effect of the western world on Islam?  European Muslims resort to virginity ploys - Yahoo! News Hymen repair, fake virginity certificates and other deceptions, said to be commonplace in some Muslim countries, are practiced in France and elsewhere in Europe, where Muslim girls are more emancipated but still live under rigid codes of family honor.I guess the true test will be if these

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Now that global warming is a fact, with the recent report dismissing the idea that the current rising temperature is part of Earth's natural cycle, it's now OK for scientists to speak out loud about their crazy sci-fi ways of cooling the planet.  How to Cool a Planet (Maybe) - New York Times In the past few decades, a handful of scientists have come up with big, futuristic ways to fight global

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The future gets closer, again.  Wired News: Test Tube Meat Nears Dinner Table Henk Haagsman, a professor of meat sciences at Utrecht University, and his Dutch colleagues are working on growing artificial pork meat out of pig stem cells. They hope to grow a form of minced meat suitable for burgers, sausages and pizza toppings within the next few years.Would it be weird to eat a burger that you

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This should prove healthy:NPR : Research Suggests Increasing Vitamin D Exposure In some fracture and bone health studies, patients see benefits with supplements of 800 international units of vitamin D. This is double the amount currently recommended by the government-sponsored Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences.In the book Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live

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A few things have made me recently question America's future. First: a national report yesterday found that 3 out of 10 (for those that did not graduate, that's nearly a third!) of students drop out of high school! In Detroit, the graduation rate is almost as low as 20% of students. Overall graduation rate for minorities: Native Americans: 50%, Blacks: 50%, Hispanics: 55%. Second: Our

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I've been involved in some discussions lately with people who don't think there was controversy in the early Christian church over what we are taught today is religious truth.One of the arguments seemed to deny the possibility that the New Testament that we have today evolved from earlier works and was actively edited, cutting out books that strayed from official doctrine. http://

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Interesting story.  I've noticed some of the issues they bring up.  Political stories have similar problems - a candidate can read millions by stating something false, but the correction will only read a few percent of the original audience.  Media Omit Basic Facts in Medical Reports - Yahoo! News # Only 2 of 175 stories about unpublished studies noted that the study was unpublished. # One-third

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Tamara Hoover, an art teacher in Austin, Texas is about to be fired over some topless photos her partner posted on Flickr.com.She's got a myspace page, and you can also see some of the other photos of her still up on Flickr (I believe the topless ones have been removed).  (Ooh, I just found a video too.)Hoover is defending this as a first amendment issue.  From her myspace page:The school is

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More Revenge SitesApparently I'm not the only one who noticed that people are now exacting their revenge online. Avant Game noticed as well, and even coined a term for it: Chinavenging!

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Revenge PostsI've come across a couple of sites devoted to exacting revenge on someone who has victimized the author in some way.How NOT to steal a SidekickThe Broken Laptop I Sold On EbayIn the second case, at least, the police (in Briton) are investigating the victim (of the laptop fraud) for hate speech.I'm sure there are many other posts like this, but I think it's an interesting (albeit with

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Why won't God heal amputees? I found this on The Dilbert Blog: http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/I think it has some strong points, and I can't find many places where I see holes in the logic. I think it's at least an interesting question to think about. The site seems a little too bent on proving God through science, though.I tried to trap someone using some of the arguments I found. It

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I've discovered that I enjoy reading The Dilbert Blog even more than Dilbert comic strips. The reason is that even though Adams makes keen and funny observations about cube life, his insights about politics and religious are just as interesting and always make me think.Take this recent post about Relativity: "When I hear people say that they know God exists because he healed their aunt’s cancer

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This is an interesting article about email:The time has come to ditch emailI'm not sure this is practical, but it would be interesting for some big player, with a lot of users, come up with an open standard that is at first available to only the users of their system (gmail, perhaps?), but would catch on like wildfire once people realized it was secure. Of course, is anything secure? A computer

Skeptically Gulliblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809176895779657111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601017.post-1149175554006019802006-06-01T08:13:00.000-07:002006-09-05T22:25:02.846-07:00

A court fight is currently underway in New York over the issue of gay marriage.Highest Court in New York Confronts Gay Marriage If the court were to rule in favor of gay marriages, would this be an example of judicial activism, or legislating from the bench? Or would this be an example of the courts protecting a minority group? While I am one who believes that people should be pretty free to do

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James mentioned something the other day about liberals taking over colleges. The claim is that the majority of college professors are liberals who are discriminating against conservative students, purging non-liberal teachers from their ranks, and preaching their ideologies to students as fact.Purely by coincidence, StumbleUpon sent me to the Project Censored page, which claims to highlight news

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