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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Scientism</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A den of vipers</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/239</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times reports on a scientific forum at the Salk Institute titled &#8220;Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival&#8221;, consisting of the usual suspects such as Weinberg and Dawkins repeating their angry young scientist polemics, described aptly by one of the conference speakers:
A Free-for-All on Science and Religion - New York Times
[...]
By the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obfuscations and Explanations</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/235</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[via BoingBoing]
The Dead Sea Scrolls it seems contain specifications for construction of latrines:
The Seattle Times: Nation &#38; World: Toilet evidence links Dead Sea Scrolls to sect
[...]
The Essenes are one of the few ancient groups whose toiletry practices were documented. The first century Jewish historian Josephus noted that members of the group normally went outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition and Reductionism</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/229</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two things, in my opinion, define the post-socialist, post-communal turn (1980 onwards) more than others: 1) Competition and 2) Reductionism. They are the result of an unholy combination of scientism and capitalism (hyper-individualism). The former (hyper-competition) pits us against each other relentlessly, both by pushing to the extremes the effects of success and failure, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The spectre of Malthus</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/67</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On many left lists, in the West in particular, if you talk about the unsustainability of current human population and consumption, you are often labelled a &#34;neo-Malthusean&#34; and further, an enemy of the common folks and an advocate of population control of the worst kind. A popular modern version of this debate is the Simon-Ehrlich [...]]]></description>
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