Vaccine-Autism Cover-up Exposed!
November 29th, 2011 No responses
Not related to climate science, but this does have many similarities with the fake hide the decline controversy.
Vaccine-Autism Cover-up Exposed!
Do Human Races Exist?
September 15th, 2011 1 response
Not that long ago there was a little spat on YouTube when the HeyRuka made a couple of videos about the differences between human races. One of her main points was that there is a difference in IQ between these races.
Understandably this caused an outrage on YouTube as this is quite a sensitive topic. But I don’t care about the race part, I cared more about the incredibly bad logic and lack of evidence she used to try to argue for her position. She failed even at giving a basic definition of what she considers a race, in all her attempts she was most successful in telling what she didn’t consider a definition of race. This alone should be a red flag.
In the end she didn’t succeed in defining race in a scientifically meaningful way that reflects anything in todays literature, or make a good case that some of these races are more intelligent. She failed in this as something like a race doesn’t exist. Race is a social construct and we can’t identify someone as being a member of a race from just looking at their DNA. Not to mention that the IQ differences are explained by the environment people live in, malnutrition alone has a huge impact.
The following video from C0nc0rdance gives a good introduction to why the concept of race has no value whatsoever in the scientific arena:
Do Human Races Exist?
The Marriage Of Skepticism And Wonder
August 24th, 2011 No responses
To me Carl Sagan was an unknown, as I grew up in a non-English speaking country, but I’ve grown quite fond of his writings and video productions when I discovered them online. And recently I found an essay of him on scepticism:
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes–an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthlessly skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. The collective enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking, working together, keeps the field on track. Those two seemingly contradictory attitudes are, though, in some tension.
The video rendition of this essay made by C0nc0rdance is a joy to watch:
Carl Sagan's "The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder"
