Many Academic skeptics, however, accept that there are absolutely certain claims, but that these are matters of logic or definition, and have nothing to do with establishing the certainty of any claim that goes beyond immediate perception. theological skepticism...
The group members consider themselves the caretakers of Indian culture, which of course means their own, very specific definition of what Indian culture is. They want to get back down to good old-fashioned Hindu values, by threatening to attack or expose couples showing affection in public. In ...
Bark mulches ARE flammable as they contain waxes and are not great choices for root and soil health. They should be avoided. Agencies associated with fire control methods need to be better informed about the significant differences between these two types of mulches and how they affect plant resi...
Therefore there is a constrained set of consequentialist choices of outcome offered the victim by each proselyte (below definition). They are ignorance, resignation and fear. Neither the SSkeptic nor the apologist requires any further enlightenment, as the incumbent charge of gaps in understanding is...
focus ondplyr,purrrand pipes, and a ban/near ban on the use of loops, the '$' sign, brackets More detailslater in this document. The Purist R Teachers I believe that R learners should be taught both base-R and Tidy, base-R first. Many R teachers feel the same way. But there are...
Definition objectivity: lack of favoritism toward one side or another : freedom from bias, not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. Science should always be objective. Social sciences are subjective and often infiltrate and replace objective science. ...
Last night, the accumulated years of being called an evil-Koch-funded-anti-science-tobacco-lawyer-Holocaust-Denier finally caught up with me. I wrote something like 3000 words of indignation about climate alarmists corrupting the very definition of science by declaring their work “settled”, answer...
discuss: the death of his brother and how this led to his study of awe • an operational definition of awe • the reliability (or unreliability) of self-report data in social science • how to quantify and measure the experience of awe • What are emotions and how can they be ...
The latter definition does not seem appropriate for climate skeptics or for climate agnostics. But for the rest of the disbelievers, it does seem to resonate. So let's try it here for a moment. This taxonomy of disbelief is not built on any psychological model, but is simply descriptive....
Point indigo for the scientific method is Ockham’s Razor. This is the point, early in the scientific method, at which a competing theory is allowed access into the halls of science for consideration. Remember from our definition above, that cheating is best done early, so as to minimize it...