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Luboš Motl 3: This lover of freedom and hater of irrationality can`t stand discourse and fantasizes about elimination by TokyoTom

I`m disappointed that my attempts at discourse with Lubos Motl have blown up. Lubos, a Czech physicist/climate science blogger who responded to my post on Bret Stephens` exegesis in the WSJ of the psychology of the cult-like "belief" by the...

Fighting over the President's Council on Bioethics (and human "dignity") - is Steven Pinker wrong? by TokyoTom

[Update below.] When government is involved in making decisions about the use of tax dollars or regulatory power to favor or hinder particular activities, it is not surprising that political struggles often ensue between groups that wish to obtain a policy...

Nick Kristof on politics: why we conclude that I'm right, and you're evil by TokyoTom

Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided...

Tribal pigheadedness: RedState bans Ron Paul supporters by TokyoTom

"The simplest way to explain the behavior of RedState [in banning Ron Paul supporters] is to assume that it doesn`t want to be controlled by a cabal of its enemies" (to misquote Thomas ;)). [The above and following are from a post I made with...