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- Introduction to Logic and Arguments How to develop critical thinking skills. Probably the most important thing you will ever do!
- Logical Fallacies Errors in thinking described and explained.
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Daily Archives: Sunday, October 19, 2008
I wish I were not such a moron…
…but apparently I am according to this web site. The main web site is www.drdino.com/ but the topic I want to talk about here is that scientists are morons, more or less. I’d like to examine this web site by looking at some of the articles posted on it by people who obviously must be geniuses and certainly not morons like me. One article I’d like to comment on can be found here: www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=95. It is written by John Hinton who must be a very intelligent and perceptive person to have so thoroughly destroyed in only 6 short paragraphs, the geological observations of thousands of scientists over the last 200 years. John Hinton begins his article with this statement: Standing at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and concluding that the multiple bands that line the canyon walls are products of millions of years of sedimentation is just plain stupid. … Continue reading
Run 87, 2008
OK I have a major problem with my knee. I started out fine, at well under a 7 minute pace until km 7 where the old knee popping/swelling thing reared it’s ugly head. The knee popping is especially bad going uphill, and the swelling really takes off on the downhill. So I had to walk a lot on the way back home and my total time was 1:27. I’ve been puzzling over this knee problem for quite a while, at least since the spring as far as I can recollect. I think I finally have a probable cause. I considered muscle imbalances causing my knee to not track properly, but now I think it is my IT band. Possibly both are contributing to the problem. I am going to get some professional help to resolve this. And I am going to focus a lot more on stretching my IT bands. … Continue reading
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