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Thanks Again Dr Fauci!

Dr Anthony Fauci, beside Trump (the best of us, beside the worst), via Wikimedia Commons Donald Trump’s first presidency was a global embarrassment, starting with the so-called ‘Muslim ban’, and ending with the January 6th insurrection. And then, in 2020, came COVID-19. This was a major global event, and there was no perfect course of action. There were a lot of bad ones, though, and Trump selected many of them. Selecting Alex Azar for Health and Human Services was not necess

Aug 194 min read

What is Neurotypical?

Da Vinci sketch of the human brain and skull (c. 1510), via Wikimedia.org NOTE: An edited version of this article appeared on The Skeptic (UK). “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Winston Churchill, 11-Nov-1947 The term “neurodiversity” has been used in recent years to describe the natural variations in human neurolo

May 275 min read

ML Pseudoscience

PSEUDOSCIENCE: Human and animal physiognomies, via Wikipedia.org NOTE: An edited version of this article appeared on The Skeptic (UK). Computer science is science, right? It’s in the name. This is actually a topic of some debate. Is it a scientific discipline? An engineering discipline? A branch of mathematics? Yes. All of that, and more. Probably best to describe it as a “multi-disciplinary field” and note the intersection points with mathematics, cognitive science, linguist

Apr 155 min read