Monthly Archives: July 2009

Gossipedia

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Bradlaugh

[Note:  The editors at Taki’s Magazine have kindly given me permission to reproduce the column below. Several Taki readers were kind enough to go into Wikipedia and amend some of the more egregious errors in my Wiki page. Whether their … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, Odds & Ends | 43 Comments

Socialized medicine, numbers are of the essence?

Posted on July 28, 2009 by David Hume

I don’t know if there is some context to this Bill O’Reilly assertion that Canadian life expectancy is higher because of fewer people, and so fewer absolute fatalities (e.g., he got turned around on the words?). But it got me … Continue reading →

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Fundamentalism & Terror

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s a review of Timothy Garton Ash’s new book by the distinguished British philosopher John Gray. The following  passages, in particular, caught my attention: The reception of Garton Ash’s writings on Muslim fundamentalism is instructive in this regard. He provoked … Continue reading →

Posted in history, politics | Tagged | 26 Comments

Here be Dragons

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

Creationist Sam Brownback (for the senator’s own deeply disingenuous explanation of where he stands on evolution check here) is once again taking up the cudgels for junk science, this time with the introduction of a strange unnatural thing known as … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Design as philosophy

Posted on July 25, 2009 by David Hume

The most recent Bloggingheads.tv features Ronald L. Numbers, author of The Creationists, and Paul Nelson, a Creationist and Intelligent Design advocate. The discussion is civil and well-informed, but as noted by some of the commenters on the Bloggingheads.tv site, it … Continue reading →

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12 Questions for Derb (cont.)

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Bradlaugh

Hoo-ee, the commentators at Economist.com are even more rude and moronic than P.Z. Myers’, which I would not have thought possible. Is it naïve of me to be surprised? Though at least Economist.com screens out the f-word.

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12 questions for John Derbyshire

Posted on July 18, 2009 by David Hume

In The Economist. John is promoting his new book, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism.

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Christian radio and moral decisions

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

I have been listening with considerable enjoyment to Christian radio, mostly KBRT, which is preset in the car I have been driving in Los Angeles.  Despite having wasted my college education on deconstructionist literary theory, I nevertheless still believe in … Continue reading →

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Clarifying contrasts

Posted on July 16, 2009 by David Hume

From FiveThirtyEight:

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The Right to Refuse Medical Treatment

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

Commenting on my earlier post in support of changing the law on assisted suicide at least in the case of a physically incapacitated individual who wishes to die but has no realistic way of achieving that objective for himself, ‘Mark … Continue reading →

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