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The claim in this recent Globe&Mail article that “EDI administrators do not categorize Jews as a racialized minority” does need to be investigated. And if it’s true, then that situation should be corrected. And if “a deeply engrained culture of … Continue reading →

The extent to which lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing confirms my expectation that we’ll eventually discover how any human cell has the potential for becoming, with the appropriate stimulus and environment, first a stem cell, then a … Continue reading →

Source: The Economist

A Quora question asks: From your own perspective, frame of reference, if you are not accelerating, are you not moving at all? Perhaps the reason people find this difficult to grasp is because of the ambiguous and unnecessary words “at … Continue reading →

I’ve got nothing against home schooling and in fact seriously considered it for our own children, but the Washington Post is presenting what may be good news in a very misleading manner. Source: How many kids are homeschooled in the … Continue reading →

Source: (1000) Alan Cooper’s answer to Those of you who are “pro-choice” when it comes to abortion: Are you also pro-choice when it comes to allowing pro-life people to vote their conscience at the ballot box? – Quora I was … Continue reading →

Roger Pielke Jr. belies his blog title with his claim in this recent post that the IPCC has concluded that connections of carbon dioxide emissions and most types of extreme weather are “in a state of high uncertainty, doubt, or incompleteness.” The … Continue reading →

I was going to upvote this, but then I read the actual statement from Marit Stiles (which was posted but cleverly NOT read out in the video) and it turns out that there is nothing in it that expresses any … Continue reading →

In the Oct 20 issue of The Economist, global business correspondent Tom Lee-Devlin wonders at ‘The eye-watering pay of American bosses‘, but it’s not the disproportionately high compensation of some workers (whether they be CEOs, actors, or athletes) that bothers … Continue reading →

It’s good to find that Andrew Coyne has been paying attention to my rants at the screen (and whoever else is in the room) whenever this issue comes up in the news. The stupid claims underlying Bill C-18 are indeed … Continue reading →

…but it’s not ‘Cap&Trade’ or any other kind of payment for ‘Carbon Offsets’. Source: Carbon offsets don’t work, and that’s not news | Climate & Capitalism The only real way to stop CO2 emissions (or any other environmental damage) is … Continue reading →

I applaud and encourage anyone who is interested in entering the field of mathematical biology, and in particular the mathematically rigorous formulation and elaboration of Darwin’s ideas about evolving populations. But I am more sanguine about the prospects for using … Continue reading →

In this article Roger Pielke Jr. notes that it may take a long series of trials to detect shifts in the mean of a variable if those shifts are small  compared to its random fluctuations. The example he uses is … Continue reading →

Source: (1000) Are the denialists seriously claiming that today’s global heating is just coincidence and has nothing whatever to do with the CO2 we are pumping into the air? – New Real Climate Science – Quora The foolishness of citing … Continue reading →

There’s a fuzzy line between Stockholm Syndrome, fanatic devotion to a corrupted regime, and admirable forbearance of “mistakes” made in pursuit of laudable goals. Source: Isabel Crook devoted her long life to making a new China

It’s not just the headline writer that got it wrong in the Economist’s article: Propane-powered heat pumps are greener.  The expression “propane-powered” is actually used in the body of the article too, but it is clear that what is being … Continue reading →

So now we are complaining that they don’t want to pay for the privilege of transmitting our public service announcements? Source: Facebook News Ban Is Risking Lives in Wildfires, Say Eby and Trudeau | The Tyee

Source: Right-Wing Writer Richard Hanania’s Racist Past Exposed | HuffPost Latest News

There is a pattern that often happens when people feel the need to change the behaviour of others, where for some reason those who want the change seem to see it as in some sense punitive and so actually make … Continue reading →