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The Importance of Intellectual Integrity

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...

Drug Policy Should Include More Freedom

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...

Trip to Mars More than an Awesome Adventure

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....

Ignoring Science or Reason Can Be Fatal

by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 30, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture

{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, August 29, 2013} A Texas megachurch that encouraged its congregants to resist vaccination has been hit with an outbreak of measles. Divine retribution? I’m thinking they don’t see it that way. A measles outbreak...

Are Humans Worth Making Contact?

by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 19, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism

I would say we should step into the shoes of a (hypothetical?) extra-terrestrial to know how they might feel about us humans. But we don’t know if they have shoes, or feet, or perhaps even feelings in the same sense we do. So let’s play Star Trek. What...

TED Tuesday: Better Science and Education

by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 20, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism

Starting with the scientific methods and ending on the education process, this excellent TED Talk takes us forward past ubiquitous knowledge and the prejudices of what we already know, into asking the right questions and driving focus onto what we don’t...
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