I was beginning to think that DI had given up on attacking neuroscience as they had not posted an anti-brain article since January. I was wrong, however. There is an article marked April 27 about free will.
But it’s not by Egnor.
It’s by a guy named Gage.
All that it says about him on the DI website [...]
This time from the NYTimes. These are currently the two most popular stories on their website:
An anti-evolution analysis of morality by David Brooks:
The evolutionary approach also leads many scientists to neglect the concept of individual responsibility and makes it hard for them to appreciate that most people struggle toward goodness, not as a means, but [...]
Coffee shop revolutionary – (noun) one who believes that progressive change results from whining about the current political climate over iced white mochas and chai tea lattes
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NSFW (i.e. put in some headphones)
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You can now buy my personal information (including call registry, gps location data, and purchased services) from Verizon Wireless.
I’m not a constitutional lawyer or [...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
How many people have been thinking like this lately? It is certainly the first I’ve heard of it.
In previous columns and in a recent book I have argued that higher education, properly understood, is distinguished by the absence of a direct and designed relationship between its activities and measurable effects in the world.
I’m not so [...]
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Friday, December 19, 2008
And this here is one of the reasons no one takes psychology seriously. I wouldn’t bother reading the whole thing (it’s about the DSM-V), but I found this quote particularly resonant:
“This is not cardiology or nephrology, where the basic diseases are well known,” said Edward Shorter, a leading historian of psychiatry whose latest book, “Before [...]
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
It’s three in the morning (not exactly 4 am, but the metaphor holds true here). I should be working on graduate applications (due in two days), but I can’t focus. I passed out this afternoon before I could make a second pot of coffee and ended up napping for about 8 hours (my roommate must [...]
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