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"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
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gcallah
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I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
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gcallah
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Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
The atrticle..."It is important we recognize that when money goes from the pocket of an American to buy drugs, it may contribute to the financing of unspeakable crimes of violence around the world," Hutchinson told Congress... That "might" be as a direct result of the gov't laws that created the black market in the first place.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great example of free market consumer protection coming about as a result of the self-interest of producers!
ReplyDeleteAfter thinking about this article further and giving its truth and accuracy the benefit of the doubt, why would a major heroin distributor like binladin need to poison coke? Why not his dope? or both. Perhaps the real quest of this alleged story is to get an "in" on the coke pipeline which is quite a conduit in terms of the volume of material that flows unhindered to the US. ladin and that ilk utilizing a good smuggling set-up could bring in products consumers don't want to ingest.
ReplyDeletePresumably he doesn't want to poison his opium for the same reason that the Columbians decided they didn't want to poison their cocaine.
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