Tagged: Chris Mooney

Converting beliefs to ’truths’ - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Jun 10, 2011 •

• agnostic,
• agnosticism,
• belief,
• book review,
• Chris Mooney,
• Confirmation bias,
• creationism,
• evolution,
• intelligent design,
• Michael Shermer,
• philosophy,
• Point of Inquiry,
• religion,
• Sciblogs,
• Science in Society,
• skeptic,
• supernatural,
• superstition

Michael Shermer‘s latest book looks interesting – The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. Chris Mooney interviews him about the book in the latest Point of Inquiry podcast … Continue reading → … Read More

Limits of logic - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Apr 08, 2011 •

• agnostic,
• agnosticism,
• atheism,
• belief,
• Chris Mooney,
• Christianity,
• cosmological constant,
• debate,
• diversity,
• Existence of God,
• faith,
• god,
• Lawrence Krauss,
• Lawrence M. Krauss,
• philosophy,
• religion,
• Richard Feynman,
• Sciblogs,
• supernatural,
• superstition,
• William Lane Craig

I have commented before on the limitations of deductive logic – see “Other ways of knowing” – some sense at last). And how easily people manipulate logic by faulty reasoning and by assuming shonky premises. Very tempting for someone with a … Continue reading → … Read More

Chris Mooney interviews Michael Mann on ’climategate’ - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Mar 12, 2010 •

• Chris Mooney,
• climate change,
• climategate,
• Environment,
• global warming,
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
• Michael E. Mann,
• Michael Mann,
• Pennsylvania State University,
• politics,
• research,
• Sciblogs

This is an interesting interview (download MP3). Michael Mann has been vilified by climate change deniers. His work on the so-called “hockey stick” graph  is still being misrepresented despite being validated by the US National research council and other researchers. He’s a bit of a lone voice at the moment but really worth listening to. Point [...] … Read More