The scientific method, revisited

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no God

And when I say no God, I mean: none. At all. So don't try to fill the vacancy with a human specimen. We're too flawed and wrong for the concept to be even conceivable.

Thinking without thinking

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Søren Kierkegaard

Who said studying can't be fun?

Political science is

1. A field of the social sciences dedicated to the study of political practice and theory;

2. Scientific labor, generally speaking, with a few minor exceptions.

Placebo should have thought of hormones

"Change your taste in men-en"
Just take some estroge-een*.


*Women's preferred type of mate varies along the menstrual cycle. I wonder what's the phase when they prefer Brian Molko...

So what if we're not (biologically) equal?

“There is, in fact, no incompatibility between the principles of feminism and the possibility that men and women are not psychologically identical. To repeat: equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.”

Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Stretching it a bit too far

Guardian: "Political allegiances linked to brain structure, study finds".

I know that science tends to be politicized, but COME ON!

Luck?

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."


Seneca