Judith Curry, on the latest travesty.
Science is not science without “contrarians.” It is religion.
[Thursday-morning update]
Related: Enlisting peer-reviewed science in the climate crusade.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The “White Supremacy Threat”
Why Democrats are continually talking about it, and why it won’t work.
A Vegan President?
“I vote ‘No.’“
I was thinking this the other day, and even tweeted about it, I think. Booker is an asshat on many levels, but I’m pretty sure that voting for a vegan would be more controversial than voting for a gay president. Pretty sure we’ve never had one in the White House. Vegans should go back to Vega.
Sexbots
Will they bring about the end of civilization?
Virtual Reality
An interesting article on the latest advances in integrating all of the sensory apparatus. I’m assuming that, like most technology of this nature, it will be extensively and intensively porn driven.
The South
The less racist it becomes, the more Republican it becomes.
Surprising no one familiar with the actual history. The Democrats have always been the party of racism, and likely always will be. It’s a defining feature.
Titania McGrath
…reviews her own show.
Who better to judge?
Joe Scarborough
[Late-morning update]
The strange case of white supremacy.
Yes, America is such a horrible racist place that millions of people of all races are clamoring and even risking their lives to get here.
And say, did you know that being pro-life is a white-supremacist position?
Yes, that’s right. Those evil white supremacists are trying to prevent the murder of millions of black babies in the womb.
Lies, Damned Lies…
…and gun-shooting statistics:
For a variety of reasons having to do with social and economic factors the firearms murder rate went down. What the current debate really seems to be about is whether rapid-fire guns increase the frequency of a special kind of crime called mass shootings. However, this is a somewhat artificial category. Mass shootings are a subset of the larger phenomenon of mass killings, sometimes referred to as rampage killings. “A rampage involves the (attempted) killing of multiple persons at least partly in public space by a single physically present perpetrator using (potentially) deadly weapons in a single event without any cooling-off period.”
It is one killer, one place, one time, many victims in a setting outside of war. The data collected on this type of even notes the type of weapon used, which is not always a firearm. It is mass killings that one would want to reduce, not just mass shootings.
The brothers in the Boston Marathon bombing didn’t use guns. As with the “War on Terror,” this is the insanity of going after inanimate objects, instead of the would-be murderers.
[Monday-morning update]
Six ways Bill Clinton lies about the “assault weapons” ban.
To be fair, though, Bill Clinton lies about a lot of things.
Phineas Gage And Kitty Genovese
Are they psychology tall tales?