Philosophy & Ethics

Phil/Evo Fundaments Of Our Deceiving In Denial, Justifying With Obvious Lies II: The Very Bottom

Any justification is fundamentally deception because there is no link from fundamental meaninglessness to why I should go on living. My a priori finding myself embodied in a world and the necessary physical causal creation myth involving emergence by algor ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 14 2018 - 3:52am

UC San Francisco Tobacco-Funded Researchers Argue Cigarette Addiction Is More Social And Less Physical

Many people are addicted to a stimulant. Lawyer-driven groups like Center for Science in the Public Interest have long wanted to sue coffee companies over caffeine but haven't gained much traction despite their efforts to claim it causes things like b ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2018 - 3:27pm

No Ghost In The Machine: AI Taking Over The World Is Unscientific Paranoia

Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: no. But not everyone agrees – many people, including the late physicist Stephen Hawking, have raised concerns that the rise of power ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 24 2018 - 10:51am

Modus Operandi: The Methods By Which EPA & ATSDR Keep The Fear Alive

George Washington may be the only popularly elected ruler in History who, when his supporters offered to crown him King, relinquished his power, instead. Politically speaking, that was a very unnatural thing to do. Historically, federal agencies have not s ...

Article - Frank Schnell - Nov 7 2018 - 6:31pm

Gender Ideology In Science: The New Dogma And The New Witch Hunt

Because its spirit seeks truth objectively rather than by imposition, science must enjoy academic freedom to be useful. The spirit of science is dialectic, in perpetual open discussion and debate about the nature of things. It is the opposite of religion, ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Dec 14 2018 - 6:19am

Jennifer Doudna, Co-Inventor Of CRISPR, Tells People To Calm Down About Gene Edited Babies

Though vitriol and outrage are common in western culture in 2018, when it comes to claims that a researcher in China used CRISPR technology to edit a human embryo, bloggers, journalists and scientists on social media have taken it to another level. Without ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 29 2018 - 10:32am

Women Can't Vote Republican, Trump Is Hitler, And Three More Myths You Shouldn't Carry Into 2019

Our job at The Conversation is to work with scholars to publish analysis that helps readers make sense of the world. And if we demolish a few popularly held – but erroneous or misplaced – ideas and assumptions in the process, that makes me especially happ ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 26 2018 - 10:10am

Greenpeace: Spewing Environmental Toxins, Too Cheap To Clean Up Their Mess, And More Tales Of Hypocrisy

Which corporation lets executives commute to work on emissions-belching airplanes, damages native landmarks while putting up advertising, speculates on international bank trade while saddling consumers with their losses, and writes policies for its custome ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 5 2019 - 12:13pm

FTC Cracks Down On Osteopath Bryn Jarald Henderson And Shady Stem Cell Therapies

Bryn Jarald Henderson, D.O. (osteopath), claimed his stem cell treatments at Regenerative Medical Group and Telehealth Medical Group using amniotic fluid from women who have given birth via C-section could cause the lame to walk and cure kidney disease and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2019 - 6:00am

Friends Of The Earth Presents Yogic Flying Instructor John Fagan In 'How To Do Science'

Friends of the Earth, social justice warriors, 1960s-era anti-science activists, occasional lobbyists, and current Political Action Committee (PAC) for Democrats (including Green New Deal darling Rep. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 11 2019 - 10:22am