I have been critical of NECSS for how it handled the Richard Dawkins situation. But I am also supportive of NECSS for eventually doing the right thing and issuing an apology to Richard Dawkins. Yesterday, the NECSS executive committee released the…
Recently, I wrote about how Prof. Richard Dawkins was suddenly uninvited from speaking at this year’s Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS). As I said at the time, I thought the move was a mistake on the part of NECSS,…
A good friend of mine recently posted a link to this old clip of the economist Milton Friedman lecturing Phil Donahue on the (lack of) merits of socialism vs. those of capitalism. The problem with Friedman’s explanation is the problem…