This is a historical post. Day 1: Wally: I’m Wally Cronkquist and that popping noise you just heard ring round the world is the sound…
The following is a seeming example of an explanation that is a “best explanation” yet we never actually refute any of the competing theories. How…
This is a historical post. So my wife says, “oh, I saw a funny shirt today.” My wife loves to share funny things she heard…
In three previous posts (here, here, and here) we talked about animal learning, particularly classical conditioning. However, some animals display complex abilities to learn that…
This is a historical post. One thing that has weighed on my mind a lot is that I believe the existing ethics of journalism are…
In past posts we’ve looked at the ability of animals to learn and how crucial that is to their evolutionary survival. In this post, we’re…
This is a historical post. I found this poem by reading Martin Gardner, the famous skeptic for Scientific American. It became one of my favorite…
In a past post, we talked about how animals learn using learning algorithms like classical conditioning. But Donald Campbell pointed out that evolutionary theory has…
This is a historical post. In this post, I continued to look at what I thought “tolerance” was. As previously mentioned, “tolerance” is really an…
Many years ago I read Roger Penrose’s books and found that he had a strong challenge to Popper’s demarcation of science based on falsifiability. This…