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Skepticism
Really good episode of In Our Time this week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kblc3  Skepticism has become, ironically, a religion recently - so it's really good to have a few centuries' worth of angles on it. ........................... 
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Speak to the circuits
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Yeah, but fucking Melvyn Bragg.
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...has to be done carefully, as he's not as young as he used to be.
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Scepticism. We are British. Don't forget that.
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Most of this is good IMO..
http://plover.net/~bonds/nolongeraskeptic.html I like the last section best... one of the links in it is broken but i found it on wayback.. http://web.archive.org/web/201005080...verness-of-me/ ........................... lovely cloakroom. lovely cloaks - barbam nondum video |
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Well if you want to split hairs over authentic spelling it's σκεπτικισμός  ...........................
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All good stuff re the sceptic movement itself, until he gets to "DEMOCRACY = SLAVERY"... *Harry Hill wavy hand* mmm, not sure.  ...........................
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http://peculiarmotion.wordpress.com/...ats-the-point/
I like this. Science as unbridled enthusiasm, not sneery "our method renders your method obsolete" snippety snipping. ...........................
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Which snipping u on about? Has there been an LHC smackdown or something?
Recommend Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions to anyone interested in the scientific method who hasn't read it. It's really dense and very thought-provoking. Have to keep stopping and staring into space and going "Hmmmmm". I'm only halfway thru tho cos mine got really wet camping the other week and is drying out under some weights  ........................... lovely cloakroom. lovely cloaks - barbam nondum video |
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No I mean the pro-science, Dawkinsist, secularist "all traditions are shit because science sees the truth and nothing else does" snipping from a position of comfortable privilege that your man talks about in the article you linked. Quote:
I remember reading a really good book about the history of Popper vs Kuhne, which laid out the changing philosophical basis of scientific method really well. Will try to remember what it was. It was probably called "Popper Vs Kuhne". ...........................
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