Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Actual Neuroscientists Cheerfully Use The Metaphors Epstein Says are Completely Wrong

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Here is yet more evidence that psychologist Robert Epstein is all wet when he claims that computation-based metaphors for understanding t...
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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Epstein's Dollar Bill and What it Doesn't Prove About the Brain

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I hate to pick on poor confused Robert Epstein again, but after thinking about it some more, I'd like to explain why an example in hi...
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Yes, Your Brain Certainly Is a Computer

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- Did you hear the news, Victoria? Over in the States those clever Yanks have invented a flying machine! - A flying machine! Good heav...
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Sunday, May 08, 2016

Give Carol Wainio an Honorary Degree in Journalism

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Carol Wainio catalogues once again a list of Margaret Wente's journalistic transgressions. This is a story that Canadian media is...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Christian god to Ted Cruz: "Drop Dead"

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Poor Ted Cruz. First, his god tells him to run for President of the US . Then, his god humiliates him in primary after primary. Te...
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Sunday, May 01, 2016

Columnist Margaret Wente Caught Plagiarizing Again

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Although columnist Margaret Wente has been caught plagiarizing yet one more time by visual artist Carol Wainio, the Globe and Mail refus...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Trump Haiku

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Craig Kaplan , my brilliant and whimsical colleague, has invented a twitterbot, trump575, that tweets haikus constructed from the opus of ...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

You are Not Allowed to Laugh at the Lies and Idiocies of the Right!

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Somebody sent me a link to this piece by Emmett Rensin at Vox. The author's thesis is that liberals have stopped thinking and spend...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Small Mind of the Conservative

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Here is a splendid example of a certain kind of conservative mind: the kind that can't imagine how things could be any different, or...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Under the Influence - An Amazingly Good Radio Show about Advertising

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There are only a few radio shows I listen to regularly, but one of them is "Under the Influence" on CBC, an amazingly good sho...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

How to Be a Good Little Right-Wing Pundit

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Right-wing pundits see bullies everywhere they look. But always on the Left, never on the Right. Right-wing pundits see lynch mobs ever...
Monday, April 11, 2016

NPR's Word Puzzle

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NPR's Sunday puzzle last week was the following: find a five-letter word in which the position, in the alphabet, of the first lette...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

They Offer Nothing But Lies, 6

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Once again, the creationists are telling fibs about information theory. Are they dishonest, or just stupid? In the case of Denyse O...
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Saturday, April 09, 2016

Margaret Russell on Mississippi's Anti-Gay Law

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Here's my old pal Margaret "Peggy" Russell, professor of law at Santa Clara, speaking on KQED about the new anti-gay law pa...
Thursday, April 07, 2016

Another Day, Another Right-Wing Quote Lie

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It seems that pretty much every day of the week, one can find right-wing spokesmen using fake quotes to justify their beliefs. Today...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2016

These Lawyers are All ASSoLs

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This is pretty funny: two donors paid off George Mason University to the tune of $30 million to change the name of their mediocre law sch...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Cold-FX Lawsuit May Be a Remedy for False Health Claims

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Cold-FX, a drugstore remedy hawked by Canadian fashion icon Don Cherry, is the subject of a lawsuit alleging the makers "ignored the...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Et in Arcadia Ego

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Monday, March 14, 2016

The Future of Recursivity

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Hello, readers! I'm pleased to announce that I've joined freethoughtblogs.com , home of P. Z. Myers and other interesting blogger...
Thursday, March 03, 2016

James Tour's First Talk: Nanotechnology and God

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The dilemma of the scientist who is also a devout Christian* is clear: on the one hand, in his/her professional life the scientist must e...
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