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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Proved Scientist Are Not Infallible. A Learned Opinion.
Neil deGrasse Tyson PhD invoked the
fact he had a PhD and Tchiya Amet El Maat did not have a PhD to imply that
he is necessarily more credible than her. Furthermore, he used…
Metabolically Unhealthy Thin People
Just like some people are overweight but healthy - an obesity paradox - some people are thin but have a three-fold higher risk of mortality and/or cardiovascular events.
Weight is not the best way…
The Golden Globes Did Something Pro-Science, And Anti-Vaxxers Were Enraged
When I first began writing about the anti-vaccine issue, California was the home of the movement (1). The state had more philosophical exemptions than the rest of the country combined, and they were…
A Simple Way To Assess The Likelihood K2-18 b Host Alien Life. The Odds Are Almost 50-50.
How can you as a person who is not a scientist know if a given claim of having found alien life is valid? In 2014 I used the planet Kepler 186f as an object for discussing this very question.…