Synthese Shenanigans
I had a co-authored paper published in the philosophy journal, Synthese. It appeared online back in 2009 and then in
Read moreAuthor: Wesley R. Elsberry
Florida Senate Majority Office on Facebook
The “Florida Senate Majority Office” has a page on Facebook. They ran a poll asking, “Do you think government employees
Read moreJohn G. West’s Cognitive Deficit
Discovery Institute big-wig John G. West took time out of his day to excoriate Lauri Lebo for a recent article.
Read moreCanon Loyalty Program 2011/02/22
I have owned several Canon digital cameras in the point-and-shoot through prosumer range. Something Canon has offered for a long
Read moreFlorida: This Year’s Antievolution Bill Appears
As predicted by Joe Meert, Florida’s legislature is once again considering antievolution legislation. This particular attempt is done as a
Read moreDolphin, Doberman, and Intentionality
MarcoIslandFlorida reports that a doberman trapped in a canal was rescued because a dolphin made “a lot of noise”, attracting
Read moreLouisiana: Repeal the Creationism Law
There is a grassroots movement afoot to put the Louisiana law privileging creationism and other dreck under a false banner
Read moreGood One, Lauri
Lauri Lebo has a good essay up about flaws in a piece published in the Washington Post. It’s worth checking
Read moreLuskin Thinks Critics Must Be Clairvoyant
Casey Luskin takes note of the Elsberry and Shallit 2011 essay in Synthese in this way: I would have hoped
Read moreLooking Back at CES 2011
I attended the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada last week. Lots of articles are out there concerning
Read moreGrab the PDFs — Ends 12/31
The Synthese special issue on “Evolution and Its Rivals” allows downloads of the full PDFs for all the articles, but
Read more“Ark Park” Drivel in the WSJ
An op-ed by Wilfred M. McClay in the Wall Street Journal predictably favors a $37+ million dollar tax break offered
Read moreThe Worms Turn… and a Patient Recovers
A CNN report describes a motivated ulcerative colitis patient arranging for his own experimental treatment. Experimenting on yourself is frowned
Read moreHealth Care in the News
There was a piece on NPR about balancing the budget and how Medicare alone is 12% of the federal budget,
Read moreHere We Go Again… North Pole, This Time
Quark Expeditions is having another popularity contest for a blogger to go on a trip, this time the destination is
Read moreNext Step for the Senate Banking Committee: Send in the Auditors
I heard a report on NPR of the Senate Banking Committee looking into the massive foreclosure fraud perpetrated by the
Read moreLooking Back at “Wherever It Leads”
I was looking for a quote from Thomas Huxley, and having found it, found out that part of the context
Read moreSMU and the DI’s new IDC Show
Southern Methodist University (SMU) Professor John G. Wise attended a Discovery Institute (DI) presentation held on the SMU campus recently.
Read moreThe Turing Test as Gender Discrimination
I jumped into discussion of a comment by Greg Laden on Facebook that touched on the Turing test. There was
Read morePrice of Misunderstanding?
Miriam Markowitz has a piece in The Nation about George Price and the Price equation, a significant advance in mathematics
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