&quot;<i>Russell followed Comte in insisting that only empirically verifiable facts and logically valid mathematical equations can be true.&quot; </i>
Well, no, that&#039;s not what he said. But let&#039;s pretend it is, and ignore it. Beats the hell out of teaching it - what a timesaver! Likewise with Darwin.
It seems likely that the study is a hoax. The Daily Kos <a href="http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/12\/09\/1168477\/-Average-Fox-News-Viewer-s-IQ-80" target="_blank">thinks so</a>.
Also elected a Democrat to the White House who put more cops on the streets. But hey, &quot;confounding factor&quot; isn&#039;t a phrase you hear coming from the right when they find a correlation they like, and while correlation is not causation, the absence of correlation gives the argument for causation a much steeper hill to climb, and the presence of a correlation in the opposite direction makes it more of a cliff.
PS... while the <em>number</em> of guns may have been increasing recently (I don&#039;t believe even that was true during the Clinton years, especially after the AWB, but I can&#039;t find figures to support that assertion), the <em>percentage of households</em> owning guns <a href="http:\/\/www.vpc.org\/press\/1104norc.htm" target="_blank">peaked in 1977</a> and has been declining ever since.
I&#039;d be somewhat interested to hear a proposed causal link that says crime should be lower if the gun nut next door owns 8 guns instead of 3. Oh hai, Javon Belcher.
&quot;Pay for the girls to tease us&quot; has potential.
I deduct all of my donations to my secular humanism church. The IRS seems to recognize it (American Museum of Natural History), so no problems.
&quot;<i>Russell followed Comte in insisting that only empirically verifiable facts and logically valid mathematical equations can be true.&quot; </i>
Well, no, that&#039;s not what he said. But let&#039;s pretend it is, and ignore it. Beats the hell out of teaching it - what a timesaver! Likewise with Darwin.
He&#039;s regretting His promise not to do it again.
Although one has to wonder - who&#039;s going to hold Him to it?
&quot;Don&#039;t pray in my school, and I won&#039;t think in your church.&quot;
-favorite bumper sticker
It seems likely that the study is a hoax. The Daily Kos <a href="http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/12\/09\/1168477\/-Average-Fox-News-Viewer-s-IQ-80" target="_blank">thinks so</a>.
Don&#039;t look at me...
Was Earl Grey a positivist, like Russell?
Chem too, also.
There&#039;s rhesus. Now you have enough for a limerick.
Actually, &quot;sees us&quot; and tease us&quot; are vastly more promising.
Also elected a Democrat to the White House who put more cops on the streets. But hey, &quot;confounding factor&quot; isn&#039;t a phrase you hear coming from the right when they find a correlation they like, and while correlation is not causation, the absence of correlation gives the argument for causation a much steeper hill to climb, and the presence of a correlation in the opposite direction makes it more of a cliff.
PS... while the <em>number</em> of guns may have been increasing recently (I don&#039;t believe even that was true during the Clinton years, especially after the AWB, but I can&#039;t find figures to support that assertion), the <em>percentage of households</em> owning guns <a href="http:\/\/www.vpc.org\/press\/1104norc.htm" target="_blank">peaked in 1977</a> and has been declining ever since.
I&#039;d be somewhat interested to hear a proposed causal link that says crime should be lower if the gun nut next door owns 8 guns instead of 3. Oh hai, Javon Belcher.
Does not allow for American exceptionalism.
Yes, <a href="http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/1994\/03\/17\/international-00021\/" target="_blank">of</a> <a href="http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/2009\/01\/14\/more-guns-less-crime-hypothesi\/" target="_blank">course</a> we <a href="http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/2007\/04\/18\/reynolds-claims-more-guns-less\/" target="_blank">would</a>.
I&#039;ve never been to the Human Events website. Is its unstated goal to Eventually make every American as numb as a hake?
Maybe...maybe not. But...you can smell it. And so can the alter boy. You can hear him when he utters, &quot;Oh no...not again&quot;.