Science exists within philosophy
Freddie rejects the notion that data exists in a vacuum: Empiricism exists within a framework of theory, and theory cannot be derived empirically. The fact-valu...
Freddie rejects the notion that data exists in a vacuum: Empiricism exists within a framework of theory, and theory cannot be derived empirically. The fact-valu...
Dan Sarewitz worries about creeping bias in science (emphasis added): Alarming cracks are starting to penetrate deep into the scientific edifice. They threaten ...
Does the writer know what that sentence actually says? The answer is routinely no…Here’s another example: “Fixed-gear bikes are ridden exclusively on thes...
According to Thompson-Reuters, eight-thousand and seventy-three science and engineering journals published just over one million peer-reviewed articles in 2010....
As much as it annoys me, I can’t bring myself to complain too much about Marcelo Gleiser’s short essay: This shaping of our worldview is not restric...
I understand the Zack Beauchamps out there apply a national politics filter to almost everything they write. I get why they spend time on climate change and ste...
About one month ago DC reporter Shani Hilton caught some flack for ignoring the poor in a piece on black middle-class gentrification. Rather than add to the cri...
If the implication, the outcome, can affirm your values, you think about it in a much more open-minded way–Dan Kahan (~3-minute mark) While Kahan was addr...
Pretty busy this week with some applications, so I’ll leave you with a few links: Why we still pay for academic journals even though everything is now onl...
The always insightful Ta-Nehisi Coates criticized Adrian Fenty for sloppy campaigning in his recent loss in the DC Democratic primary (emphasis added): I think ...