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2011/04/19 Wesley R. Elsberry

A Grete Waitz Reminiscence

Back in the early 80s, I made what living I had as a staff photographer for the Independent Florida Alligator

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AntievolutionPhilosophy
2011/04/19 Wesley R. Elsberry

Is the Synthese Thing Just Business as Usual?

Chris Pincock at “Honest Toil” has a different take on the Synthese disclaimer issue. Pincock makes the argument that since

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AntievolutionLaw and PoliticsPhilosophy
2011/04/18 Wesley R. Elsberry

Synthese Shenanigans

I had a co-authored paper published in the philosophy journal, Synthese. It appeared online back in 2009 and then in

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FloridaLaw and Politics
2011/04/18 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

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2011/03/23 Wesley R. Elsberry

John 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.

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ElectronicsPhotography
2011/03/08 Wesley R. Elsberry

Canon 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

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2011/03/07 Wesley R. Elsberry

Florida: 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

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General
2011/02/25 Wesley R. Elsberry

Dolphin, Doberman, and Intentionality

MarcoIslandFlorida reports that a doberman trapped in a canal was rescued because a dolphin made “a lot of noise”, attracting

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Antievolution
2011/02/16 Wesley R. Elsberry

Louisiana: Repeal the Creationism Law

There is a grassroots movement afoot to put the Louisiana law privileging creationism and other dreck under a false banner

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2011/02/08 Wesley R. Elsberry

Good One, Lauri

Lauri Lebo has a good essay up about flaws in a piece published in the Washington Post. It’s worth checking

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Antievolution
2011/01/26 Wesley R. Elsberry

Luskin 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

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Electronics
2011/01/10 Wesley R. Elsberry

Looking Back at CES 2011

I attended the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada last week. Lots of articles are out there concerning

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AntievolutionPhilosophyScience
2010/12/30 Wesley R. Elsberry

Grab 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

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2010/12/16 Wesley R. Elsberry

“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

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Medicine
2010/12/10 Wesley R. Elsberry

The 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

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Medicine
2010/12/01 Wesley R. Elsberry

Health Care in the News

There was a piece on NPR about balancing the budget and how Medicare alone is 12% of the federal budget,

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GeneralScience
2010/12/01 Wesley R. Elsberry

Here 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

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Law and Politics
2010/11/17 Wesley R. Elsberry

Next 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

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AntievolutionHumorLaw and Politics
2010/10/04 Wesley R. Elsberry

Looking 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

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AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2010/10/03 Wesley R. Elsberry

SMU 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.

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