by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 14, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
This TED Talk doesn’t talk about Raw Foodism. It is really about brain cells, and what makes our brain capacity possible compared to other primates. The shocking answer is cooking, and the implication removes legitimacy from the Raw Foodism fad. The math is...
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 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...
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...
