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When does skepticism veers into the ridiculous? This pops up in my news feed. The flat earthers are back! The perturbing thing about the article, aside from the comment that the flat earthers conferences are growing, is the line that flat earthers are generally curious and hyper-skeptical. They question things; they perform experiments to prove…
[My last few posts have been rather long so I’m going to try to keep this short.] This is off topic but last week I was shocked that George Conway appeared on MSNBC as a legal analyst. Of course, I had to see that to see if anyone would be “indelicate” and ask him about…
““You’re not victims; you’re the richest people in the world,” Novogratz said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg. “How in God’s name do you feel like a victim?”” HuffPost, “Billionaire Tells Wealthy to ‘Lighten Up’ About Elizabeth Warren: ‘You’re Not Victims’ “, Mary Papenfuss, October 19, 2019 A lot of billionaires really don’t like Elizabeth…
Yesterday, I had a rather long post about one writer’s positive take on the automation/artificial intelligence/robot trend coming fast at us. I didn’t buy in his positive thesis, even though I wanted to believe in something positive, but his thesis just didn’t convince me – it was too free market oriented. I did want to…
I truly did. But I just can’t. I started this book, The End of Work by John Tamny, thinking that it would give a positive take on the robot/AI takeover. The initial impression I had was that the robot takeover would lead people to having jobs that they were passionate about or “Why your passion…
Currently, pharmaceutical companies are under lawsuit for misleading marketing – for promoting LIES about how non-addictive their opioid products are. Cities are suing oil companies for deceiving the public that they don’t really know that fossil fuels are the causing climate change – in other words, for LYING about their knowledge about the real impacts…