miss_s_b: The Blood is the Life!

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@ 2009-06-24 11:48 pm UTC

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The Blood is the Life!

Fresh Squeezings from the veins of t'intertubes.

Evolutionary Psychology is bad science. Yeah, yeah, I know, preaching to the converted here. But the article is a good one, and deserves to be disseminated as widely as possible.

Speaking of science, Phil Willis MP tweets some welcome news. I fully agree with him that we need to make sure science is where it belongs at the heart of gov.

Rebecca Dalzell tells a heartwarming tale of Radio 4 addiction. Radio 4 is one of those things that you either get or you don't. I count myself among the utterly addicted. I was led in by the Now Show and now I have the damn thing on for a minimum of 8 hours a day. Radio 4 is the rhythm of life; a comfort and an education in one. I'm glad I'm not alone. Especially in listening with rapt attention to gardeners' question time when I only have a few plant pots...

andrewducker makes a fabulous point about comment threads. Pls take note, maintainers of Lib Dem Voice, which I have all but stopped visiting, given that you can no longer subscribe to comments and they still have that stupid please add us to your advertising whitelist! Oh, go on, PLEASE thing.

Space Geeks! Look at this awesome audio-visual slideshow of Saturn and its moons, compiled by the BBC from various sources, including CassiniSaturn.

And today's Meme is an old one from the depths of my LJ:

Poll #619 Truth or Lie?

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

View Respondents

One of these is true, five are lies. Vote for the one you think is true.

View Answers

My favourite song of all time is Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie
0 (0.0%)

I have owned six dogs in my lifetime
0 (0.0%)

The first album I bought with my own money was Sheer Heart Attack by Queen. It was on cassette.
5 (50.0%)

I have eaten and enjoyed sheep's brain
2 (20.0%)

I have dyed my hair many colours, but never black
3 (30.0%)

My favourite beer is called Moonshine
0 (0.0%)

I'll give you the answers tomorrow.

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miss_s_b
2009-06-25 09:29 pm UTC (link)

Hmmm.

I don't see why saying "this is bollocks and there's no proof for it" is an extreme position that one can somehow find a middle ground between and "look at this shiny speculation that I am backing up with no evidence"

Moral relativism is fine, but I don't think that all positions are necessarily of equal value. This sort of thinking is what gives "intelligent design scientists" an excuse.

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pmoodie.livejournal.com
2009-06-26 07:08 am UTC (link)

I don't think all positions are necessarily of equal value either, I only have time for the ones that have evidence backing them up, and that make some kind of sense to me.

In this case, we have camp A (human behaviour is the result of evolution) and camp B (human behaviour is the result of social conditioning). It seems to me that there is evidence on both sides, but I think the reality is that both are right, to some degree. Quite what that degree is, that's what we should be trying try to find out.

I think most reasonable people would see the sense of this, but when discussions about evo-psych get going, reason tends to leave the building. The people who are deeply entrenched in their camps get terribly defensive and pretty soon a reasonable discussion turns into a flame war, and I invariably get shouted at.

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