Rather than pick apart the fallacies, let me try this approach: Suppose you have two printing presses. One of them cranks out US dollar bills, which are indistinguishable from the real thing. The other cranks out Monopoly money.
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Free Advice: Is It a Curse to Have a Printing Press?
Most often, it depends upon the quality of the science or evidence supporting the action that is being promoted, and the only way to avoid serious disruption to one’s daily life is to develop the ability to determine the difference …
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Political Calculations: How to Detect Junk Science
National Science Week (and the Big Aussie Star Hunt), officially begins on Saturday August 15. However, the SA Science Week Launch is today.
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Astroblog: National Science Week Launch Tonight!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009. Mid-week music madness. Helen, my caseworker, proving that it is not just sorting out tax credits and benefits that she is good at
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Peter Black AM: Mid-week music madness
The time control had been and gone and I was following this and a few other endings with the help – or otherwise – of a computer progam that was most surprised when Salimbeni responded to 54.Kf2? [54.Rh5! +-] with 54…f4! which gives …
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The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: The rook endings computers don …
People who use the Internet safely will be less likely to fall victim to cyber crime.
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Campaign 'Safe Internet use' underway : Crossroads
We previously explored the relationship between age, education and inflation-adjusted earnings for another project, but we limited that study to just the first 25 years of a typical bachelor degree holder’s life after they graduated …
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Political Calculations: Average Lifetime Earnings Trajectories by …
A remarkable revolution in thinking occurred in the 17th Century – the creation of modern empirical science , which is one of the greatest achievements of civilization.
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A Place to Stand: MEDIEVAL SCIENCE
What a battle of the bands is for musicians, the comedy festival showcase/competition started at the Funny Bone May 27. It was fashioned similar to a basketball bracket, from 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 to 1. That ended Wednesday night, …
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Bloomington Comedy Festival winner: Tom Brady : the bloomington …