First, an apology. To those of you who read my previous posts, I apologize for the long period of my […]
13. A Short Post About A Scary Article
Early this morning I read and listened to this multi-media article in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/26/opinion/trump-qanon-washington-capitol-hill.html?searchResultPosition=1 Very very scary. Millions […]
12. Are the Capital Rioters Crazy?
When public service messaging was more popular in the US it was not uncommon to see advertisements warning how to […]
11. Why Is This Holocaust Different From All Other Holocausts? Or is it? Part I
My father, Maurice Swergold, was born in Poland. In the late 1920’s, when he was a teenager, my grandfather moved […]
10. A Few Thoughts About Loosing a Parent
Let me start with an apology for not writing for this blog for a number of weeks. They were the last […]
9. How To Think About Science and Religion, Part III
Part III. So we have a dilemma. In Part I we explored the cognitive spaces occupied by science and religion […]
8. Words Matter, Especially in Science, Medicine….and the Media
A new report today, which came to me via my news aggregator, reports that trial participants, in two important and […]
7. How to Think About Science and Religion, Part II
Part II Why We Shouldn’t Discard Either Science or Religion In Part I, I discussed why one cannot, should not, […]
6. How To Think About Science And Religion
Don’t. At least don’t try to mix them. Or explain one with knowledge from the other. In this post I […]
5. The Implications of the Theory of Evolution
People often ask me: how can one explain the existence of altruism if evolution works by survival of the fittest? […]
4. One Missing Word In A CNN Report About a Vaccine Trial Makes All The Difference
The press often gets science and medicine wrong. Often it is the result of ignorance born out of a lack […]
3. Do You Really Understand the Theory of Evolution?
Most people readily admit that they don’t understand Quantum Theory (QT). QT is not in the news much. When it […]
2. What is Science and Why Does It Make Us Fight So Much?
Part II: Why Science makes us fight so much. In Part I, I first described what science is not and […]
1. What is Science and Why Does It Make Us Fight So Much?
Part I: What is science Science is hard to define. First, let me tell you what it is not: Boring […]