Where the Strongest Evidence Leads
Sunday, February 28, 2016
On Conspiracies
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The word conspiracy means to plot in secret, often to harm others. Companies, political parties, and other organizations regularly do it. We...
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Which Group Is More Ethnoracially Unethical? A or B?
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A: Supports freedom of political speech for all. B: Supports freedom of political speech for Muslims, establishments, and followers of Marx...
Friday, February 26, 2016
A List of Causal Factors and Other Ideas to Consider When Weighing Causal Claims
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Let's say we plan to do a social science study or evaluate one or weigh an argument positing causes. We should consider plausible alte...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Six Loathsome Genres of Political Arguments
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Trying to prop up atrocious ruling group worldviews by ridiculing something worse (the Westboro Baptist Church , for example). The man or...
More Contradictions
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Helicopter parents fret about the miniscule probability their children will be abducted by strangers, but act unconcerned about the high pro...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Human Reasoning Tendencies
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Some who easily change beliefs have little willingness to stand up for those beliefs. They change beliefs with social pressure and feel good...
Monday, February 22, 2016
The Demonization of Eugenics
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For those who demonize eugenics with ad hominem attacks or fallacious appeals to tradition regarding Nazism: Why the inconsistency? Why no...
The Return to High Growth: What Would Do It
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Recent arguments focus on the preposterousness of returning to high growth with Democratic and Republican Party prescriptions, raising the ...
Big Ben and the Benjamins
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The late Ben Wattenberg claimed neoconservatism is about reducing crime. Yet Wattenberg's articles were devoted to promoting cultural M...
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