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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Science</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>Luck and evolution</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/401</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple truth that you won&#8217;t hear from all the high priests and popularisers of science (in this case, biology):
&#8220;If you dissect the past, you can see that luck is a big part of everything in the grand scheme of evolution,&#8221; says lead author Stephen Brusatte, a researcher at the American Museum of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seed: Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/325</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Seed: Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers
Robert Trivers: So you&#8217;re talking about self-deception in at least two contexts. One is intellectuals who, in a sense, go through a process of education which results in a self-deceived organism who is really working to serve the interests of the privileged few without necessarily being conscious of it at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minor tremors in Biology: Evolution and Natural Selection</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/324</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some recent majordomos like Jerry Coyne (University of Chicago) have used language akin to George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;aiding and comforting the enemy&#8221; to shut down or criticise any criticism of the orthodox position (The New Synthesis) in Evolutionary Biology. To them, everything from Jerry Fodor&#8217;s controversial essay, &#8220;Why pigs don&#8217;t have wings&#8221; to the &#8220;Altenberg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewontin on Gould, and the practise of science</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/323</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/323#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[In a predictably excellent essay reviewing The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould (Ed: Steve Rose) and Punctuated Equilibrium by Gould, Lewontin offers two valuable reminders. One is the essential and important difference between a &#8220;public intellectual&#8221; like Gould who works to disseminate knowledge of his field to the general public and someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloodthirstiness by any other name?</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/319</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/319#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evo Psychology]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Winding down a tediously long essay describing in detail the vengeance driven tribal battles in New Guinea, Jared Diamond finds in them a justification and need for bloodthirstiness:
Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance Is Ours: The New Yorker
[...]
We regularly ignore the fact that the thirst for vengeance is among the strongest of human emotions. It ranks with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blowhards of the world unite</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/309</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/309#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting phenomenon to be seen these days, every time there is some controversy. It is quickly morphed into a controversy about the response to the original one! That happened with the Muhammad cartoon issue, where the publication of some silly cartoons aimed at infuriating Muslims (the same populations that are oppressed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A flap over the flap of a gene&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/291</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/291#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are in need of animated and grandiose debate, with a good measure of personal attacks thrown in, you are sure to find it in biology writing for a general audience. The latest is an outcome of Olivia Judson&#8217;s (biologist and author) resurrection of the &#8220;hopeful monster&#8221; idea with suitable provocative content to trigger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S. J. Gould, R.I.P</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/278</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/278#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do you say punctuated equilibrium without saying punctuated equilibrium? Here&#39;s how:
Another Big Bang for Biology  Researchers have uncovered what they think is a sudden diversification of life at least 30 million years before the Cambrian period, the time when most of the major living groups of animals emerged. If confirmed, the find reinforces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Not so] Black and White</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/258</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/258#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one valuable insight that philosophers of science and sociologists have demonstrated it is that issues in science (and metascience) are frequently decided (or at least argued) in quite non-&#8221;scientific&#8221; ways (by which I mean what is generally claimed to be the scientific way &#8212; in truth a formalisation of rationality, common sense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IQ and the poverty of thought</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/230</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This from The Observer:
Low IQs are Africa&#8217;s curse, says lecturer &#124; The Observer
The London School of Economics is embroiled in a row over academic freedom after one of its lecturers published a paper alleging that African states were poor and suffered chronic ill-health because their populations were less intelligent than people in richer countries.
Satoshi Kanazawa, [...]]]></description>
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