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Tag: Science

  • Listening to the Chronicle of Higher Ed

    Listening to the Chronicle of Higher Ed

    Note: I am not attacking people personally, or their right to opinions. However, I have been in this rodeo since 1983, academia, with the deans, chairs, provosts, VPs and presidents, and plethora of others, who hands down (not all) got it wrong about the value of and reason for education, K12 and higher ed. This […]

  • Human Life Dissected

    No, I am not a surgeon. I am an organizational not a clinical psychologist. What, you might wonder, then, gives me any authority on this subject. Having written probably thousands of words about it over the decades probably gives me sufficient cache. Readers, you be the judge of whether I have overstepped my limits at […]

  • Three Reasons Why Public High Schools Don’t Teach Critical Thinking

    Three Reasons Why Public High Schools Don’t Teach Critical Thinking

    The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America’s schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don’t accept as true what you’re about to read. Some of it is fact; some of it is opinion masquerading as fact; and the rest is liberal, conservative, or mainstream propaganda. Make sure you know which is which […]

  • How to Reason with Scientists and Other Partially Rational Creatures

    Scientists are increasingly aware that they need to improve their skills of public engagement, so as to combat scientific misinformation more effectively than they have been able to manage to date. This is a welcome development, on the whole, as the American public’s scientific illiteracy is boundless, which has contributed to substantial unnecessary loss of […]

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