What are the ground rules in democratic discourse?
In response to my last post, a commenter sharply observes: But I must admit that creationists, i.e. fundamentalist Christians, when they were in the ascendant a...
Tag: Harm principle
Consistency and fairness in public policy
Ross Douthat believes tradition-based rules can be socially useful even they are arbitrary and inconsistent: One point I didn’t get to, though, is the extent to...
On slippery slopes, evidence and fairness
Commenter Geremy worries about the long-term implications of allowing intelligent design in science class: I think my problem with [reading] the paragraph is th...
A thought experiment
The importance of separating facts from ideology was perhaps the most important lesson from my fellowship in DC. It stems from the basic belief that there is an...
Vaccines and the right to refuse
Scientists have been studying disease transmission since at least the 19th century. We now have reams upon reams of peer-reviewed research and detailed mathemat...
Have you separated any siamese twins recently?
Pediatric neurosurgeon and a creationist Ben Carson is a young-Earth creationist. He is not some wishy-washy “evolution is real but God directed it”...
Creationists and scientific thinking
Come on ref! It’s not a foul if no one got hurt. Forbes’ Alex Knapp explained why people who reject evolution cannot reason scientifically: if [poli...