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Archives for September 4, 2009

Academics and Freedom of Speech

September 4, 2009 By jennifer

EVERY so often I receive emails suggesting I am morally reprehensible.  Interesting, like the following email, they often follow a function at an Australian university.  

Hi there,

I attended a very interesting lecture today around Climate change denialism with guest speakers Dr Andrew Glikson of the Planetry Science Institute and Professor Clive Hamilton of the ANU [Australian National University].
 
It seems to me there is a vast array of eminent scientists who are in agreement that increased levels of carbon due to human activity is having an undeniable impact on global warming. 

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Filed Under: Letters Tagged With: Philosophy

More on Californian Bushfires

September 4, 2009 By jennifer

“I moved from San Francisco to the LA area about a month ago so am experiencing the fires from a little closer vicinity. The local news
told us that the areas on fire last burnt about 1929! The brush is 20ft high in many places! After a week of burning they finally pulled
in the larger drop aircraft including the DC-10.” Vernon.

Filed Under: News, Opinion Tagged With: Bushfires

Defining the Scientific Sceptics (Part 10): Karl Popper

September 4, 2009 By jennifer

The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that mere criticism as such helps us achieve new ideas. But he does think that, in the sphere of ideas, only critical discussion can help us sort the wheat from the chaff. He is well aware that acceptance or rejection of an idea is never a purely rational matter; but he thinks that only critical discussion can give us the maturity to see an idea from more and more sides and to make a correct judgement of it.
   –Karl Popper, All Life is Problem Solving, 1999

via Benny Pieser

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Philosophy

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