The whole, unredacted thing. House Intelligence Chair Nadler said he'd give Barr a little time to comply or else the subpoena would be issued. It's likely Barr will refuse, causing a legal battle. It's obvious that Dump and the Repugs do not want what's in the report to become public knowledge as it counters their false narrative. TFB, the House will fight to get and release it. We the people want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Atheism inconsistent with scientific method?
So said Marcelo Gleiser in the Scientific American, theoretical physicist and this years Templeton Prize winner. An excerpt:
“I honestly think atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method. What I mean by that is, what is atheism? It’s a statement, a categorical statement that expresses belief in nonbelief. 'I don’t believe even though I have no evidence for or against, simply I don’t believe.' Period. It’s a declaration. But in science we don’t really do declarations. We say, 'Okay, you can have a hypothesis, you have to have some evidence against or for that.' And so an agnostic would say, look, I have no evidence for God or any kind of god (What god, first of all? The Maori gods, or the Jewish or Christian or Muslim God? Which god is that?) But on the other hand, an agnostic would acknowledge no right to make a final statement about something he or she doesn’t know about. 'The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,' and all that. This positions me very much against all of the 'New Atheist' guys—even though I want my message to be respectful of people’s beliefs and reasoning, which might be community-based, or dignity-based, and so on. And I think obviously the Templeton Foundation likes all of this, because this is part of an emerging conversation. It’s not just me; it’s also my colleague the astrophysicist Adam Frank, and a bunch of others, talking more and more about the relation between science and spirituality."
“I honestly think atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method. What I mean by that is, what is atheism? It’s a statement, a categorical statement that expresses belief in nonbelief. 'I don’t believe even though I have no evidence for or against, simply I don’t believe.' Period. It’s a declaration. But in science we don’t really do declarations. We say, 'Okay, you can have a hypothesis, you have to have some evidence against or for that.' And so an agnostic would say, look, I have no evidence for God or any kind of god (What god, first of all? The Maori gods, or the Jewish or Christian or Muslim God? Which god is that?) But on the other hand, an agnostic would acknowledge no right to make a final statement about something he or she doesn’t know about. 'The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,' and all that. This positions me very much against all of the 'New Atheist' guys—even though I want my message to be respectful of people’s beliefs and reasoning, which might be community-based, or dignity-based, and so on. And I think obviously the Templeton Foundation likes all of this, because this is part of an emerging conversation. It’s not just me; it’s also my colleague the astrophysicist Adam Frank, and a bunch of others, talking more and more about the relation between science and spirituality."
Kobach to be immigration czar
Dump and Repugs know that the only way they can win is to eliminate legitimate voters.
"With access to Homeland Security and Census records, Kobach could give deportation lists and 'non-citizen' Census files to GOP state voting officials. They could then require Americans with names like 'José Garcia' to prove they are citizens. In 2012, Florida did a test run of this purge operation, identifying some 181,000 'potential' aliens on their voter rolls. They found and convicted just one (an Austrian registered as a Republican), but scared untold numbers of Hispanics away from voting. Many lost their registration because they could not take a day to go to court to prove they are Americans. And that’s the real danger in this 'Immigration Czar' appointment: Kobach could organize the purge of young voters and voters of color by the hundreds of thousands just before the 2020 election."
"With access to Homeland Security and Census records, Kobach could give deportation lists and 'non-citizen' Census files to GOP state voting officials. They could then require Americans with names like 'José Garcia' to prove they are citizens. In 2012, Florida did a test run of this purge operation, identifying some 181,000 'potential' aliens on their voter rolls. They found and convicted just one (an Austrian registered as a Republican), but scared untold numbers of Hispanics away from voting. Many lost their registration because they could not take a day to go to court to prove they are Americans. And that’s the real danger in this 'Immigration Czar' appointment: Kobach could organize the purge of young voters and voters of color by the hundreds of thousands just before the 2020 election."
Schiff: We will subpoena Mueller
It might be the only way we'll ever learn the truth about what's in his report.
Conclusion about math
Continuing the last post, all of this is not to deny that the MHC is useful. All math is useful depending on the context in which it is used. Where the MHC is wrong is that it assumes its premises are ontological and thereby makes claims to reality as such. All of the above points to a multiplicity of useful and consistent maths and metaphors, often contradictory, where none of them owns the exclusive claim to reality as such. And different models are required to describe more accurately this diversity instead of one universal model for them all. Which is, btw, a more accurate tenet of postmetaphysics.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
The cognitive and neural foundations of math
"It's not objectively out there in the world." And two versions of set theories can come up with opposite results. Why? Watch the video.
Repugs promise to replace Obamacare AFTER the '20 election!
They seriously have no plan whatsoever, only an empty promise. Except for maybe the Pay Out Of Pocket (POOP) plan. Unfortunately some idiots are going to fall for it so we have to hammer home repeatedly that they have no plan and are liars and cheats. You know, the truth.
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Angela Lee v. Xiong Jing Nan
Lee, the undefeated atomweight champ, goes up a weight class to take on the strawweight champion and it proved too much for her. She almost had it in the 4th round but gassed out in the 5th. It was Lee's first loss.
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