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James “the Amazing” Randi is an icon of skepticism. The man has done more — over a span of several decades — to further the cause of critical thinking and to expose flimflammery of all sorts than arguably anyone else in the world, ever. That is why I was struck with incredulity and sadness yesterday [...] 1995 film, United Artists When a friend directed me to the stories indicating that the webmail server for the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia was hacked, I felt like a bomb had gone off in my stomach. Private emails among scientists discussing controversial and difficult research? This is going to [...] There’s an article in the LA Times from last week all about how the US Chamber of Commerce wants a trial about Global Warming. What’s really weird about it is that they’re calling it “The Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century,” and the thing about that is… the Scopes monkey trial is the [...] In his 1637 paper, “Discourse on Method”, Réne Descartes wrote “Je pense donc je suis.” In 1644, he would translate that phrase into Latin for his famous Principles of Philosophy, writing it as “Cogito ergo sum.” “I am thinking, therefore I exist.” When I was in high school, I became a big fan of Descartes. [...] |
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