The Alignment Of Conservative Ideology & Hostility To Science

Throughout this long deveopment, from 600 BC to the present day, philosophers have been divided into those who wished to tighten social bonds and those who wished to relax them. With this difference, others have been associated. The disciplinarians have advocated some system of dogma, either old or new, and have therefore been compelled to be, in greater or lesser degree, hostile to science, since their dogmas could not be proved empirically. They have almost invariably taught that happiness is not the good, but that ‘nobility’ or ‘heroism’ is to be preferred. They have had a sympathy with irrational parts of human nature, since they have felt reason to be inimical to social cohesion.

 — Bertrand Russell

Two Forms Of Primitivism

Your Time Starts … Now!

The Postmodern Theorist

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
 — Katharine Graham

The End Justifies The Means

Celebrity

"Just-For-Show" Business

Uropæan

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
 ― Peter Ustinov

Grumpy Old Man Anagram

Minimal Pair

Free Before The Law

Every law is an infraction of liberty.
 ― Jeremy Bentham

Fear Itself

Now Just Let Me Stop You There

Metaflamingo

Only Joking

Soldier Ants

Gott Im Himmler!

Jesus 0 Odin 1

International Women's Day

Near Enough Is God Enough

Aping Monkeys

Rogered

Sowing The Seed

Always Gets A Seat

Apropos

Lend Me Your Ears

Comedy Central

Obama Sin-Laden

The Dunning–Kruger Effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realise it.

The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast, the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.

This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will rate their own ability higher than more competent people.

It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding.

Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.

Animal Quakers

We think of the Quakers now as eminently respectable,
but in the early days they seemed rather closer to hooligans
— inspirational, idealistic, infinitely courageous —
but hooligans none the less.

 — Bamber Gascoigne 'The Christians'

Be The First

Newton's Third Law Of Self–Promotion

For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.
— Anonymous