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Public Skeptical About Climate Alarmists’ Claims
Terry Jones writes for Issues and Insights about new polling on American’s views about climate change. Until recently, the U.S. and the rest of the developed world pursued a costly…
Skepticism
Education
Martin Center column warns against a ‘cult of critical thinking’
Alex Sosler writes for the Martin Center about the problems associated with an overemphasis on critical thinking in education. To speak against critical thinking in today’s academy is comparable to…
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Oh, So Now They’re Science Experts
This morning, CNN asked why folks are so paranoid about vaccinations. Um, I don’t know. Maybe I don’t trust politicians who go after my ilk with the IRS and stuff?…
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Goldberg urges skepticism about government’s proper use of ‘big data’
Jonah Goldberg is not jumping on the bandwagon of Obama critics blasting the administration for its collection of so-called “meta-data” linked to mobile telephone calls. But Goldberg uses his latest…
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Deferentials and independents
Those are the terms my good friend Jacob Hornberger uses in discussing the two types of people and their reactions to “official” information from government. Specifically, he contrasts the two…
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Shut Up & Feel the Energy
Headlines were made as a monument was dedicated at this year’s Heritage Festival. Well, I was born without that part of my brain that gets excited about monuments. In fact,…
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Are You a Populist?
John Hood writes today about the growing popularity of populism and provides some cautionary notes about buying into the sentiment. It’s a keeper. Read the whole thing. But populism is…
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“but they did it anyway”
In this editorial, the Herald-Sun rightly decries the lack of ethics by public officials, as demonstrated by a series of recent stories. It rattles our belief in the honesty of…
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Re: Vaden’s comments
Joe, I suspect Ted Vaden is not trying to be disingenuous. Perhaps the statement you quote might have turned out better if Ted had rested his typing fingers after “themselves.”…
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Faith-based global warming?
Concern about global warming has as much to do with faith as science. That’s the contention of Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Spencer…
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The NY Times: The debate is over, now stop looking into new facts!
What a great opening to this New York Times article on the Iraqi documents: American intelligence agencies and presidential commissions long ago concluded that Saddam Hussein had no unconventional weapons…
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Surprise, surprise
Chicken Little environmental “survey” predicts dire consequences followed by calls for greater government controls. I didn’t see that one coming.