If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations—then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation—well these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics…
“For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his…
Since I brought up Darwin in the last post, it seemed obvious I would follow it with one about the nurture vs. nature debate and why it’s misguided and a waste of time. During this period thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Marx argued that experience was the prevailing influence shaping behavior. Locke saw…
In the production of science, experimental design is one of the hardest steps in the chain. It’s really where a researcher sets himself up for success or failure. In “How To Avoid Seven Deadly Sins in the Study of Behavior” Manfred Milinski [Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 26 (1997), pp. 159-180] offers his…
Kelley continues his dreary and irrational attack on science in the 19th part of his so-called Unified Dog Theory. Like every attack on science by self-proclaimed experts, Kelley’s salvos haven’t amounted to anything of worth. As expected, he hasn’t unified anything and he seems confused, thinking his opinion is on the same level as scientific…
Science and Dogs 
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