szeptik
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
The Constitution of Knowledge, by Jonathan Rauch
Comment · 4 years ago
> YMMV, but if I search for "transgender" on Amazon.com in an incognito window, the very first result is the author's book.
My understanding of the author's point is that the book does not show up in a "you may also be interested in these books" kind of list, not the result of an explicit search.
Comment · 5 years ago
As I understand it, conversion requires renouncing your previous faith. If you are referring to the practice of baptizing newborn babies, I don't think it can considered a conversion (much less a forced one) at all.
Comment · 5 years ago
I am also confused by the idea of a theorem that can be refuted. As far as I know, if something can be refuted by experimental evidence then it cannot be a theorem.
Comment · 5 years ago
"The results published by the IPCC and the official US National Climate Assessment suggest even that global warming will only have only minor effects on the world economy."
As the financial crisis has shown, I would be very careful before letting the future of the planet depend on the predictions of neoclassical economists. Professor Steve Keen, for example, has written[1] about the absurdity of some assumptions in which these predictions are based.
[1] https://profstevekeen.medium.com/economic-failures-of-the-ip...
https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking