Category Archives: Science and the scientific method

Cato Institute Hates Happiness!

OK, I am being completely unfair, I just wanted to get your attention. The blog New Economist pointed me to a couple of posts by what it calls “the always readable Cato Institute gadfly Will Wilkinson” on the subject of happiness research. He finds most of it to be lousy. I have no doubt he […]

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Can We Believe in Science?

Not to worry, I have not become a creationist. But each era has had firmly held beliefs about how the world works that have been displaced by later theories. The article below is a mundane but nevertheless important example. Some Danish scientists have questioned the long-held belief that nerve signals are electrical, since electrical impulses […]

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