Following the Occupy Wall Street movement has been interesting. Following the media coverage doubly so. It is revealing to see how quickly the media loses interest, and how shallow most reports are. But the main issue I feel the need to write about is this “what is your demand?” thing. And hats off to Occupy […]
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There’s been new articles about the same phenomenon I wrote about in Mistakes and Improvements – why we humans despite all our knowledge and advances hold so many lies and errors as truth. Lingering Lies writes about the factors that help false information to survive. There are many articles and books about this topic available, […]
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We all, both as individuals and as cultures, have beliefs that won’t stand the test of time, and very likely some that we will be laughing about years down the road. Fortunately, we are not only time-binders, as Korzybski puts it, we also have the scientific method. You know, the thing that brought us airplanes […]
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Once again, the James Randi Educational Foundation has picked the yearly recipients for their anti-rewards. That made me think about how much nonsense and known errors we face in our lives. JREF focuses on some prominent examples, but there are many more that are more widespread and provide less of a focus for attack. What […]
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Hands up if you had to look up “misandry” but knew immediately what misogyny is. Or, if you’re a member of the minority which has that in their vocabulary, explain why “misogyny” gives ~7 mio. hits on Google while “misandry” gives less than 1 mio. Funny how much our language betrays our bias, isn’t it? […]
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A slight detour from the usual topics, this angry rant by Phil Plait caught much of my attention. In short, the story is this: A woman is in a hotel elevator with a man, it is late at night. He attended her talk earlier and expresses his admiration together with an invitation to coffee at […]
~ read more ~Nice article with implications: Children don’t need Brain Gym to spot nonsense | Ben Goldacre | The Guardian. What does that say about us? Basically the same thing people like Michael Shermer have been saying for many years: That we tend to believe in stupid things for strange reasons that we are only slowly starting […]
~ read more ~This started out as an entirely different post, but sometimes you have to go with the flow. So it ended up as a collection of studies and numbers about various relationship models, because the results were quite surprising.
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