Politics, Media and Science Converge

In today’s press there are a number of clear examples of the fundamental and critical difference between explaining and predicting. The type and quality of knowledge required for each are substantively different.CBS leads this hour’s Google news offering with the following: “How Obama became the man to beat.”But, wait a minute. If CBS understands how [...]

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Posted Under: Philosophy
This post was written by John on January 8, 2008 Comments (0)

The debates

Well, I watched the marathon debates on ABC starting with the Republican debate and through the Democrat debate. Let me state up front that I’m originally from Massachusetts (born in Boston) and therefore genetically a democrat. (Just kidding, of course, Mass. has had its share of Republican luminaries, Ed Brooke, Ed King, and more recently [...]

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Posted Under: Cultural
This post was written by John on January 6, 2008 Comments (1)
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