What scientists believe and what they can prove, 2007-03-02

What scientists believe and what they can prove (with a flowchart for Sir Karl Popper).
A little academic but a cool article nonetheless.
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The Al Gore Effect, 2007-03-02

Al Gore blames the media for being balanced.
Dubner at Freakonomics is getting beaten up for disagreeing with Al Gore.
Why do journalists suddenly love Al Gore? After they tempt him into the presidential race, they’ll probably try to destroy him again. And he knows it.

Al Gore’s dirty secret, 2007-03-02

I recently received an email with a link to a post in the Drudge Report. The post was a letter from the non-partisan Tennessee Center for Policy Research alleging that Al Gore’s personal residence uses 20x the power of the average U.S. household and costs $30,000 a month.
Here’s the full post in case Drudge decides [...]

Virginia apologizes for slavery, 2007-03-02

I’m not sure how I feel about this, seems like a nice gesture. However, I think Fark would put this in the [Obvious] category. This is particularly symbolic coming from Richmond near the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Jamestown.
12 years later the first Dutch ship with 20 Africans in chains shows up. Well that [...]

Killing me with religion, 2007-03-02

John Wilkins has an interesting post entitled, Religion: the cure that kills, in response to William Rees-Mogg’s Religion isn’t the sickness. It’s the cure.
I think the best exchange in his post is this:
Rees-Mogg writes: The 20th century was an age of religious decline and of accelerating decline in social cohesion as well as in faith. [...]