Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • THREAD ON THE ETHICS OF SCIENTIFIC ADVOCACY I follow this blog fairly closely ex

    http://judithcurry.com/2013/08/06/irresponsible-advocacy-by-scientists/GREAT THREAD ON THE ETHICS OF SCIENTIFIC ADVOCACY

    I follow this blog fairly closely exactly for this reason: they cover the debate over scientific ethics fairly honestly.

    My position is pretty clear: advocacy is the responsibility of journalists. And neutral research is the responsibility of scientists.

    If you can’t trust politicians why should you trust scientists that are acting like politicians?

    This division of labor is the only way to ensure that advocacy is responsible.

    I’ve even advocated in the past, that we should hold scientists and journalists accountable for the equivalent of pollution if it turns out that they were wrong. People who are not accountable are not responsible. You are not responsible for discovering the atomic bomb. You are responsible for advocating the construction and use of it.

    (I know. Sounds nuts. But that’s what propertarian logic would suggest that we do.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 05:43:00 UTC

  • HUGS ARE GOOD. Just saw the latest UI for our product Oversing. We can’t really

    HUGS ARE GOOD.

    Just saw the latest UI for our product Oversing. We can’t really use breadcrumbs because it’s not a hierarchical model. Instead it “layers” screens so that you don’t get lost in difficult contexts.

    Say what you want. But I will never stop hugging my staff when they do stuff that awes me. 🙂 They laugh at it.

    But it works. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 05:01:00 UTC

  • PREFERENCES AND BEAUTY

    http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0068395MATING PREFERENCES AND BEAUTY

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 03:55:00 UTC

  • “The third social order arose over the last 300 years: open access orders sustai

    “The third social order arose over the last 300 years: open access orders sustain social order through political and economic competition rather than rent-creation.”

    (Thanks Skye)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 02:49:00 UTC

  • “DOCUMENTARY = PROPAGANDA” PROBLEM I was crushingly depressed when I learned tha

    http://www.cracked.com/article_20585_6-famous-documentaries-that-were-shockingly-full-crap_p2.htmlTHE “DOCUMENTARY = PROPAGANDA” PROBLEM

    I was crushingly depressed when I learned that “Nanook of the North” was utter nonsense. I felt lied to. (I had been lied to.) The noble savage myth is a myth. Living primitive life is hard. And when indigenous people discover their own poverty, large numbers of them commit suicide many others seek any exit possible.

    McDonalds is possibly one of the best food products ever produced. (Corn syrup probably one of the worst.) When I was 16, before work, would eat two big mac’s and a large order of fries, and I had a washboard stomach. We ought to treat McDonalds as one of the worlds best charity organizations for the poor. Because that’s how much they’ve done to feed the poor. (Compared to the nonsense the government does.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 01:38:00 UTC

  • Other than translating Emmanuel Todd’s ideas into propertarian language I really

    Other than translating Emmanuel Todd’s ideas into propertarian language I really didn’t have to do much with ideology.

    I guess the only issue, is that propertarianism tells us what institutions we would need for multiple (heterogeneous) family systems. History doesn’t.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-12 10:09:00 UTC

  • THERE IS ONLY ONE REASON TO DESIRE POWER That is, to prevent anyone else from us

    THERE IS ONLY ONE REASON TO DESIRE POWER

    That is, to prevent anyone else from using it. 🙂

    Nuclear Family

    Common Law

    Property Rights

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-12 09:48:00 UTC

  • WHY THE RELIGION OF THE STATE: POSTMODERNISM? Family structure + literacy + godl

    WHY THE RELIGION OF THE STATE: POSTMODERNISM?

    Family structure + literacy + godlessness = political ideology

    1) Family systems and agrarian systems

    2) Modernization phases (literacy, industrialization, dechristianization, contraception)

    3) Ideology (nationalism, socialism, religious conservatism)

    -Emmanuel Todd (France)

    The state suppresses christianity in order to replace it with postmodernism (state socialism). That is why it is OK to criticize christianity, and white people, but no one else. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-12 09:30:00 UTC

  • IS A GUY THING. JUST IS. AT LEAST ONE GOOD THING LEFT ABOUT BEING MALE. 🙂

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/afps-esr071213.phpCREATIVITY IS A GUY THING. JUST IS. AT LEAST ONE GOOD THING LEFT ABOUT BEING MALE. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-12 09:12:00 UTC

  • ARGUMENT. NOT SUPPORTED BY ANYTHING. BUT I AGREE. AND IF WE CLOSED TH BORDERS I

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/08/why-a-living-wage-will-not-help-the-economy/SENTIMENTAL ARGUMENT. NOT SUPPORTED BY ANYTHING. BUT I AGREE. AND IF WE CLOSED TH BORDERS I WOULD SUPPORT IT.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-12 04:00:00 UTC