It seems that your approach, which I take to be that of the establishment, is to invoke statistics to justify all data-related objections. We start with a...
[[From: "Darrell" <hgldr@...> Subject: Re: Organofascists Pete, Now you've got us all curious. What was the critique you made concerning organic foods...
Brian, It seems like a pretty reasonable essay which you wrote. I can see if someone is "blindly polarized" in one political direction that they would object...
I'm glad Clint Van Zandts wrote his piece on how bogus "psychic detectives" are. He's totally right about them. Their unscientific methods and false claims...
... It's a false analogy. The deer demonstrably has antlers. The data does not have features that you have demonstrated. ... If I am not mistaken, each of...
... Without getting in the particular theory at hand, it should be noted that successful predictions are only a necessary condition for the correctness of a...
... Correct predictions is probably the strongest measure there is for the goodness of a theory. It is NOT sufficient to prove a theory - nothing is. What do...
... That is not my reading of history. Kepler needed the more accurate measurements of Tycho exactly because the accuracy of the epicycles was so good. But I...
... I may be mistaken on this issue. If you mean by "catholic" the Roman catholic church, then you are mistaken, I am not catholic. My impression was that by...
[[[From: "Darrell" <hgldr@...> Subject: Re: Organofascists From what I've read about getting the Organic Lable, I think the requirements are too "left"....
[[[From: "Walter Hecker" <HeckerW@...> Subject: RE: 2004 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS A great example is the earth centered theory of the epicycles which ...
Hi All, For those still wondering what my objections to organic foods might be, all I did was contradict the claims made for organic foods, namely: They're...
I was hoping for someone to put a little work into understanding my nick, but as I didn't give anyone any motivation... ... I grew up Jewish, but I have a...
[[[ From: Pete Watts <watts_pete@...> Subject: Organofascists groups like Greenpeace may well produce policies bad for the environment. They have made...
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago have explained how a globe-encircling residue formed in the aftermath of the...
In a message dated 4/10/2005 10:11:24 Eastern Daylight Time, Joe Needham ... And exactly which part of this report are you skeptical about, Joe? HR [Non-text...
... It is a scientific report and posted as informational. The implication is that most dinosaurs died in a literal rain of fire or from the fires caused by...
... It's the contradictions between Paul himself and Acts than are interesting. [...] ... I certainly disagree with your conclusions. The Jewish uprising was ...
At 12:13 AM 3/31/2005, Tom Curtis wrote: [...] ... Christianity was already spread around BEFORE Mark was written. The fact that there are at least three...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3401715.stm But the US says there is no proof that fast food alone is to blame for the growing epidemic of obesity. ...
... I find it even more worrisome that the U.S. is trying to sabotage the efforts of WHO. Notice the careful wording: The U.S. isn't challenging that diet is...
Par for the course for the Bush administration, whose track record on science matters is, to put it mildly, worrisome (i.e., what global warming?; i.e., our...
Eric ... I understood that the role of calories is the central one and this was well established. I could be wrong. Since banning "junk food" is seen as a...
... It depends on your goal. If you want to reduce weight, a good thing, then I think calories is the best measure. However, in my case, cholesterol is the...
Eric ... The goal is to tackle the growing epidemic of obesity. The WHO seems to be letting political considerations get in the way of the actual science which...
[[[ From: ecarlson <ecarlson@...> Subject: Re: Science at WHO Both fast food and a lot of preprocessed foods tend to be high in bad fats, as well as low in...
Behold this innocent soul, who thinks he can argue a subject before he understands it. Pretending to posses knowledge is a crime that we all commit, especially...
Technogiddo - I teach a course on skepticism, and recently gave a brief lecture on the end of the world, and people who believe some sort of disaster is ...
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