Philosophy & Ethics
- Falsified Research- A Meta Analysis Of Scientific Misconduct
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How common is scientific misconduct? It's a tough question to answer. Scandals like Hwang Woo-Suk's faked stem-cell lines or Jon Sudbø's made-up cancer trials have demonstrated that fraudulent research is easy to publish, even in the mo ...
Article - News Staff - May 28 2009 - 11:20pm
- Just Got Un-Christened
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The catholic church has long lost its race against islamism for the religious institution with more adepts. And they ache for it: you can tell from their resentful remarks on the matter. Bishops and spokespersons of the Vatican have been recently reported ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 31 2009 - 8:29am
- Welfare Penalties And Race- Are Blacks Treated Unfairly?
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African-Americans are significantly more likely to be sanctioned by the United States welfare system than Caucasians, according to research published in the June issue of the American Sociological Review, but is there bias? Welfare sanctions in response t ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2009 - 12:44pm
- Random Noise #15: Noises In Noyes's Poetry.
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Random Noise #15: Noises In Noyes's Poetry. What is a noise, that it annoys us so? Noise is, in a given situation, any sound or sounds which one or more listeners consider to be any of: irrelevant, unwanted, intrusive, distracting, irrelevant or ann ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 3 2009 - 9:38am
- Speak Out: Silence is the Enemy.
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Speak Out: Silence is the Enemy. Injustice promotes unrest. Unrest promotes war. War promotes injustice. It is not possible to have a productive and stable society in which there is widespread injustice. Injustice is not just unethical- it's irratio ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 9 2009 - 4:01am
- Thinking Machines and The Semantic Quagmire
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Thinking Machines and The Semantic Quagmire What Is The Semantic Quagmire? ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 5 2009 - 9:48pm
- Strangeness And Ambiguity In Language
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Strangeness And Ambiguity In Language My major linguistic interest lies in the problem of getting a computer to interact with us humans using language in exactly the way that we do. It is just not acceptable to any rational human being that they should b ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 6 2009 - 6:15am
- The Intelligence in the Chinese Room.
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The Intelligence in the Chinese Room. In my article Digging Beneath the Surface of Grammar, I wrote: ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 6 2009 - 5:00pm
- On Morphogenetics.
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If you’re not familiar with the work of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake it may help to know that his most popular experiments were featured on British television in the form of specials that you can view, at least in part, on youtube, under titles like “Dogs that kn ...
Blog Post - Brian Taylor - Jun 6 2009 - 8:34pm
- Random Reward Schedules and the Ambiguity of Language.
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Random Reward Schedules and the Ambiguity of Language. I had the clue from Pavlov: control your conditions and you will see order. B.F. Skinner, A Case History In Scientific Method. Skinner discovered that the rate with which the rat pressed the bar depen ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 22 2009 - 6:37pm
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