Reg:

Occam’s Razor is not dead. It has been demoted. It is no longer the supreme judge of scientific truth as Nature may not owe us humans a simple explanation.

Nature has always been complicated from the time we first beheld it and started thinking about it. Occam’s Razor is not a rule for the Natural Universe, it is a rule for our attempt t…[Read more]

Reg:

AI shows promise in the fight against fake news.

Here’s hoping it does good because fighting Misinformation/Disinformation/Malinformation is hard enough between humans of different cultures and languages, even with smartphone translators.

Today, at the store where I work, a Caribbean man was sporting a florescent yellowish green shirt…[Read more]

Simon, here is a great read from a previous Sunday School….Life is Simple…

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Occam’s Razor is not dead. It has been demoted. It is no longer the supreme judge of scientific truth as Nature may not owe us humans a simple explanation.

I would say that Nature is elegant but not necessarily simple.  I don’t believe the most simple explanation is the right one.

I was surprised to read that Ireland is to consider decriminalizing the possession of all drugs for personal use. I have smoked weed throughout my adult life (a few times a year) and nobody cares about it. But I suspect the religious objectors will be out in force again even though they keep losing (marriage equality, abortion, divorce). It will…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Reg:

I myself haven’t drank in 11 years and don’t plan to restart, at least until medical science can create instant regrowing brain and liver cells. For me, it’s not a virtue signal; I just don’t want brain and liver troubles on top of any pancreas troubles that may come from diabetes.

It still struck me as curious that the World Health…[Read more]

Thanks Jake.

Enco  –

The key line in the WHO article is “There is no form of alcohol consumption that is risk-free” and that even low levels carry some risk and can cause harm. I would contend that there is no safe amount of alcohol. There are only lower-risk amounts. For health, the optimal amount is none. That does not mean one drink will ruin…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: WHO and the Death of Evidence-Based Medicine.

Evidently, the World Health Organization has a no-threshold view of Alcohol, which ignores the entire history of U.S. Prohibition, with battery-poisoned rot-gut bathtub gin and gang wars in the streets over “sales turf.”

This no-threshold view of alcohol would also give support…[Read more]