Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

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Monday, August 26, 2013

The Sokal Affair

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The Sokal Affair was an important event in 20 th century intellectual history. Nominally about the social basis of knowledge, the truths i...

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Criminalistics: Science or Folkway?

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Ahead of my May 8 talks to the forensics classes in the science department at Westwood High School in Round Rock, Texas , the teacher, Su...

Friday, January 27, 2012

Teaching Ethics to Student Engineers

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Ayn Rand observed that for most people, “integrity” is not putting your hand in your neighbor’s pocket, when, in truth, integrity is having ...

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Inconvenient Questions about Global Warming

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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics, 2006) suggests many questions about basic facts. From about 20 minutes in to about ...

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Misconduct in Science and Research

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Recent news about procedural misconduct by scientists is easy to find. However, searches of JSTOR uncovered zero articles about misconduct...

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

THE FALLIBILITY OF FINGERPRINTING

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The easy truth is that fingerprints are not reliable. The deeper facts are necessarily more complicated. Whether and to what extent fingerp...

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