1. Interviews with Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer

Comment #164704 by List_of_small_things on April 20, 2008 at 2:56 pm

Mjosef, Riley, et all

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Shermer had departed from the spirit of sceptical enquiry and fallen into some of the traps that his organization should really be educating people out off upon reading his attempts at economics and political theory.

It was really disheartening to see someone who is so involved with promoting scepticism appear to depart from the ideals of rational enquiry.

Oh well, just another reminder that a command of sceptical enquiry is necessary but not sufficient for the enlightened individual.

2. John Templeton: God's sugar daddy

Comment #155750 by List_of_small_things on April 5, 2008 at 3:24 pm

asupbc - Reading some decent chapters on market failure in accredited text books should cure that unfortunate set of non-sequiturs

3. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #125401 by List_of_small_things on February 11, 2008 at 10:11 am

For anyone wanting to support Ron Paul:

Either:

He has rational arguments for his radical economic polices that contradict large swathes of basic economic theory and the only reason he hasn’t gotten a noble prize yet is that tens of thousands of independent academic economists are just mean and jealous

Or

His is as deluded in regard to economics as Kent Hovind (dr Dino) is in regard to science and employs sophistry to beguile the public.

4. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #125389 by List_of_small_things on February 11, 2008 at 9:58 am

Ron Paul is economic’s version of a creationist, not only the policies he proposes incredibly stupid but he actively engages in sophist nonsense and spreading misinformation to support his irrational economic policies.

The articles on his site read like he’s copied and pasted some cool sounding stuff into an article and pretends it supports his conclusion.

Frankly the consequences of a politician supporting economic policies which are not only irrational but have a very substance body of scientific theory strongly suggesting they would be disastrous goes beyond criminal negligence and is in my opinion more a crime against humanity. In the same way that AIDS deniers asking governments to rethink distributions of antiretroviral is not just ignorance but a crime against humanity