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• Appealing to Faith in a Search for Truth, Playing Tennis Without a Net

  
  Vridar — Authority: 415
  Before you appeal to faith when reason has backed you into a corner, think about whether you really want to abandon reason when reason is on your side.(This quote and the following post are largely taken from page 154 of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Dennett.)Many believers in God claim that their faith is something ...
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• Guest Post: Investor Psychology … Fear Turns People Into Sheep

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  By George Washington of Washington’s Blog . Investors are basically rational, right? In fact, as many studies have demonstrated, the answer is no . But instead of wading through all of the investment psychology research, let’s look at research into people’s basic reasoning abilities. Bear with me for a ...
  6 days ago

• Guest Post: Investor Psychology … Fear Turns People Into Sheep

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 746
  By George Washington of Washington’s Blog . Investors are basically rational, right? In fact, as many studies have demonstrated, the answer is no . But instead of wading through all of the investment psychology research, let’s look at research into people’s basic reasoning abilities. Bear with me for a ...
  6 days ago

• Guest Post: Investor Psychology … Fear Turns People Into Sheep

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  By George Washington of Washington’s Blog . Investors are basically rational, right? In fact, as many studies have demonstrated, the answer is no . But instead of wading through all of the investment psychology research, let’s look at research into people’s basic reasoning abilities. Bear with me for a ...
  6 days ago

• The AGW Crowd Is Nuts

  
  The Iconic Midwest — Authority: 127
  Literally loony, as in separated from reality by a large measure. Take the scapegoating of the U.S. in this article: With the U.S. Congress still unable to agree on climate legislation that would make major reductions in greenhouse gases, European officials said Thursday they have given up on reaching an ...
  6 days ago

• Another Part Of The Reagan Revolution

  
  Blackinformant.com - African-American culture, news commentary, politics — Authority: 592
  About the author of this following excerpt~ “Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major ...
  1 week ago

• Sexual Attraction, Health and Evolution: Its a Rocky Road

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Which physical characteristics make for attraction? If you perform a quick search for psychology articles (and blogs) on this topic, you will find innumerable accounts of studies telling you how, for example, people with high facial symmetry and particularly average faces are generally considered more beautiful, that ...
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• MMR-autism link is clearly “busted”

  
  Science Notes — Authority: 463
  Over at Aetiology, Jan Helldén mentioned a study : “I would like to point everyone who believes that there is a connection between autism and vaccination to a Danish study that includes almost one tenth of the population. It was published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2002 (KM Madsen, et al.: A ...
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• EBM: it’s about evidence, not physicians or patients…

  
  (the) health informaticist — Authority: 114
  There’s some chatter on the evidence-based healthcare message board about the definition of “evidence based medicine” and I have to say I get a bit fed up sometimes as people always talk of the “holy trinity” of EBM, that of: use of evidence + physicians’ experience + patient choice. But I mean to say, ...
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• Mythbusters Science Kit Review

  
  Book Room Reviews — Authority: 119
  Have you ever watched the Discovery Channel’s show Mythbusters? They have come out with a new kit to help teach and encourage children to explore science. We were sent the Weird World of Water kit to test out by Team Mom. My five year old son is a little young, but with dad’s help he still had a lot of fun ...
  1 week ago

• Subsistence Politics

  
  Stump Lane — Authority: 420
  [Prologue edited for clarity.] Years ago, before my ideas went out of fashion, I went around calling myself a Liberal. I also frequently submitted posts for the Carnival of the Liberals, and still do occasionally. Sometimes I manage to sneak one in there. The Carnival was the driving force behind my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Statistician On Statistician Action!

  
  The Iconic Midwest — Authority: 127
  Cue the porno music! The “Statisticians: ‘Global Cooling’ a Myth” story “J’accuse! A statistician may prove anything with his nefarious methods. He may even say a negative number is positive! You cannot trust anything he says.” Sigh. Unfortunately, this oft-hurled charge is all too true. I and my ...
  2 weeks ago

• The True test if Global Warming is Real....

  
  Valley of the Shadow — Authority: 122
  In Copenhagen this December , either President Obama or members of his Administration will be going to argue why the world is ending RIGHT NOW. Here is an earlier take in the Valley about Global warming. However, I believe in the Scientific Method when it comes to any theory, be it scientific or social. What is ...
  2 weeks ago

• AP Lies About Climate (As Usual)

  
  The Iconic Midwest — Authority: 127
  Really they should make this harder. In a story purporting to "prove" that absent knowing what they were looking at or taking into account what can be considered climatic change in a scientific sense, statisticians can say we are warming even though we have been cooling (yeah, doesnt make sense to me either), we are ...
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• When Doctors Dont Know Whats Wrong

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  The first patient I ever saw as a first year resident came in with a litany of complaints, not one of which I remember today except for one—he had headaches. The reason I remember he had headaches isnt because I spent so much time discussing them but rather the opposite: at the time I knew next to nothing about ...
  2 weeks ago

• Krug’s feet of clay…

  
  Journey to Perplexity — Authority: 121
  More on the theme of Paul Krugman going off the deep end after serving the country so well.  In a recent blog post of his, he weighs in on the lastest kerfluffle about climate change.  The guys who wrote the best-seller, Freakonomics , have a new book out with a chapter that is somewhat critical of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• They Might Be Giants - Put it to the test

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 122
  
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• Neuroskeptic: “fMRI gets slap in the face with a dead fish”

  
  Science Notes — Authority: 463
  Neuroskeptic blog (”because brains are stupid”) has a nice commentary on the dead salmon brain-scan story . Posted in science Tagged: neuroscience, scientific method
  3 weeks ago

• Hooked on Snap

  
  Dream On — Authority: 91
    My mother the corporate lawyer, when I told her I was about to marry a guy whose parents were Catholic, asked, alarmed: "Do they believe in Darwin?" And she wasnt aware that the question was, um, funny. The Origin of Species was to Mother what The Holy Bible is to so many: she never read the whole thing, but ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Few Of My Favorite Things (OK Just One)

  
  The Iconic Midwest — Authority: 127
  Last October I wrote the following : BTW Im officially sick and tired of writing the nonsensical term "climate change." Climate always changes. Always has, always will. Thats just what it does. Please get used to it. Today I read from Roger Pielke Sr. answering a question: 6. Do you see any specific ...
  3 weeks ago

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