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Mr Chapman of the Chicago Tribune in Sunday’s paper just exposed his liberal bias in a big way. He writes a column blasting Mr Trump’s recent push against apparent rise in opiate addiction which has been blamed on big pharma (and the Chinese?) among...

A post pushing back against the latest (alas U of Chicago, my alm mater) Economics prize which was on “nudges” as policy tools if I gathered the basic notion correctly.

In the wake of Las Vegas shootings … this chart seems to indicate the “gun” issue is not highly correlated with the problem. Gun laws, to quote a Harvard study, are an inelastic means of controlling gun violence and the violence isn’t very well correlated...

Replace the “diversity” tag above, with your favorite tag, be it Black, Green, Gay, Feminist or whatever. For much of science the problems are clear. What is “gay” number theory, or “feminist” crystallography besides nonsense.
A friend pointed me at this essay on First Things entitled, The Myth of Scientific Objectivity. There is much to unpack there, but I’d thought I’d offer a few thoughts. My notions of philosophy of science and how science works to put my cards on the...