by Barry Fagin | Oct 20, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, January 9, 2014, as “Stop waging ‘war’ on youth”} America is a nation at war. I do not mean the “War on Terror” – you can’t wage war against a feeling. I don’t mean the...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 6, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Psychology, Science & Pseudoscience
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, November 21, 2013} What does it mean to have intellectual integrity? It means you admit error, changing your mind when the evidence says you should. Someone who uses the trappings of science to masquerade as a scientist, but...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 22, 2014 | Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, November 9, 2013, as “Future drug policy should include more freedom to choose”} It’s a warm and wonderful feeling to read The Gazette’s story about 6-year-old Charlotte Figi and...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 15, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, October 24, 2013} Humans on Mars within the next century? Ridiculous. We can do it in 10 years. I recently returned from Chicago, running a 10K with my son. But the real race he wants to run is millions of kilometers long....
by Barry Fagin | Sep 8, 2014 | Politics & Law
{Published as “Grim fiscal reality requires all our military alliances be revisited” in the Colorado Springs Gazette, August 15, 2013} (Full disclosure: Sequestration has impacted me personally. This has undoubtedly influenced the opinions below.) The...