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When Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini announced an exhaustive review of the company's unprofitable divisions in April, rumors began swirling about scorched-earth job cuts to reverse sinking profits.
As we approach the 11th anniversary of Carl Sagan's death, I think it proper to post some stories related to critical thinking skills and general skepticism.
In his book, The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan offered what he called a "Baloney Detection Kit"-- a method and/or set of tools for differentiating between pseudo-science and science. As we approach the 11th anniversary of Dr.
Newsvine is a great place for arguments. Any day of the week, you can join a conversation about nearly any topic, and offer your opinion about it. And chances are good that someone who has a different opinion will present a counter-argument.
The last part is a quote from Grothe's column. I can only say that Grothe is abysmally ignorant if he really believes that there is no such thing as atheist-bashing. All he has to do is talk to the plaintiffs in practically any church/state lawsuit filed in the last century.
It exists only in the imagination of some self-identifying atheists and secular-humanist activists. Unbelievers, they claim, are the last oppressed minority in America, and the time has come for a civil-rights movement all their own.
June 22, 2007 How the West Really Lost God By Mary Eberstadt
Earlier this year, the world's top climate scientists released a definitive report on global warming. It is now "unequivocal," they concluded, that the planet is heating up. Bush no likey.
In 1937, E. E. Evans Pritchard published a seminal work of anthropology entitled Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Pritchard had been studying the Azande, a people living along the upper Nile, for eleven years.
Christian fundamentalism has three great enemies in the struggle to retain its children, judging by the stories its apostates tell: weaknesses in its own teachings, science, and hypocrisy.
There's no doubt that the term is useful. A consensus view in any field of science represents humanity's best guess as to what's going on. The guess might well be wrong, but what else is there to go on? It's not as though there are answers in the back of the book to look at.
Carl Sagan called science, "a candle in the dark." Despite the many scientific discoveries over the 20th century and the advent of the internet to help disseminate these ideas, many Americans (especially it seems) are still shrouded in the darkness of superstition.
Three weeks after promising it would show proof of Iranian meddling in Iraq, the Bush administration has laid out its evidence — and received in return a healthy dose of skepticism.
But with Bush's popularity at a record low, a Zogby poll shows that over 40 percent of Americans now think there has been a "coverup" around 9/11.
If you're an undiscovered psychic, soothsayer, dowser or medium, time may be running out for you to put your supernatural powers to the test and claim a million dollar prize. But you already knew that, didn't you?
I know someone — he's almost a friend, really — who will invariably describe himself as a sceptic. And one of the proofs of his scepticism, in his own mind, is that he doesn't believe a bloody thing the Government says.
It has been called alternately "thoughtful, informed and probing..." (American Scientist) and "a sorry instance of present-day scientism..." (the New York Times Book Review); an "elegant, sharp-minded essay on the need to study religion in a dispassionate way" (The Economist) an …
Today is November 30th, 2006. That date doesn't mean a whole lot to most people, but to me it means something pretty significant. It marks two years since what was possibly the most significant event of my entire life.
've always been skeptical about anthropogenic global warming. Something about the concept just doesn't seem right to me. All right, the earth has gotten hotter since the industrial revolution.
I am an optimistic liberal, and election day was a day of intense anticipation.
Richard Dawkins, the prodigious firebrand of modern evolutionary theory, makes an empassioned case against the rise in faith-based reasoning in America, and in favor of the Enlightenment-era values upon which America was founded.
A very handy guide to being a tough consumer of information and ideas. Don't let yourself get ripped off... be a sharp cookie!
Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
An MIT climatologist's quixotic struggle against global warming science Science can accommodate Richard Lindzen's global warming skepticism. It can even be said to require it.
Scientific American's George Musser has an extended response to the oft repeated claim that The present warming could be a natural uptick.
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