Courtesy of Elon Musk, some things we should know to think logically. Fundamental Attribution Error. When someone is late, it’s because they’re lazy. But if you’re late, it was the traffic. Self-Serving Bias. Attributing your successes to your skill and your screw ups…
Micheal Crichton describes the fundamental political problem of climate change: it is a religion promoted by nutcases who dismiss facts, logic, and science that contradicts their environmental belief. I have taken the liberty to bold some of his sentences to…
by Mark J. Perry, AEI (excerpt) As part of my series of posts this week to recognize the green holy day called Earth Day, here’s what Michael Crichton had to say about “scientific consensus” back in 2003 when he gave…
“Now I’m going to discuss how we would look for a new law. In general, we look for a new law by the following process. “First, we guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we compute…
by Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood. Carl Sagan was many things — a cosmic sage,voracious reader, hopeless romantic, andbrilliant philosopher. But above all, he endures as our era’s greatest patron saint of…
by William Happer, Professor of Physics, Princeton University, WSJ During a fundraiser in Atlanta earlier this month, President Obama is reported to have said: “It gets you a little nervous about what is happening to global temperatures. When it is…
by Dr. Ed Berry Introduction to the AGW problem Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is the hypothesis that human emissions of CO2 due to burning fossil fuels are causing dangerous global warming. AGW proponents claim AGW is so dangerous that we…
