Month: August 2011
“Under the Banyan Tree Nothing Grows”
Big Science devours billions of dollars a year while the productions of this vast government industry seem startlingly and increasingly barren of significance.
“Nonsense Remains Nonsense”: Oxford’s John Lennox to Confront Hawking’s Atheism in Seattle This Friday
What you really need to evaluate the strength of Hawkings’s argument is either a head for math or, better still, an actual mathematician.
A Source of Scientific Bias: The Fear of Boring People
Scientists are in a sense just like journalists. We — I speak for the latter — do not like to report that we do not know why or how something happened.
Joe Lieberman/David Klinghoffer Collaboration on the Sabbath Out Today
Senator Lieberman puts it this way: “The Sabbath is our opportunity to reflect on the way God’s creative purpose and design are reflected in the world around us.”
When a Consensus — on Science or Anything — Masks “Groupthink”
“Developed by the psychologist Irving Janis in the early 1970s, the groupthink theory describes how a tight-knit, smart and well-informed group can suppress dissent and make disastrous decisions because of the pressure to agree.”