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Fighting war in the public eye
The recent release of a previously classified military video by the website WikiLeaks has once again reignited the firestorm over the nature of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A central thesis of the people who oppose the war(s) based … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Culture, Current Operations, Entities, Ethics, Iraq, Media, Military, Nations, News, Philosophy, Society, United States, West, the, World Watch
Tagged Afghanistan, evidence, Iraq, Media, Military, War
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And you’re still defending climate science as overwhelming and irrefutable?
Via Cranach: researchers studying the nature of climate science discover that climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated climate data measurements by selectively eliminating the number of data collection stations: In a January 29 report, they find … Continue reading
This is science?
There are people who claim that my skepticism of modern scientific claims about the environment and evolution stem from a lack of understanding rooted in the fact that I am a Christian. Their claim is that, because I have faith … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Ethics, Faith, Philosophy, Science and Technology, Updates, Worldview Item of the Day
Tagged Beliefs, evidence, science, skepticism, truth
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If our government won’t, should we?
Worldview Item of the Day
Our current era of connectedness allows us an unprecedented view into international affairs, one so unprecedented that we often no longer need to trust our government to reach foreign policy conclusions on our behalf. We can evaluate the evidence and reach those conclusions on our own.
The Constitution clearly prohibits individual citizens from taking foreign policy actions on their own, but at what point does the belief by a group of citizens that the government’s foreign policy actions are wrong allow that group of citizens to act? This idea of private foreign policy is one that is growing and will likely come to plague traditional governmental systems with more frequency in the years to come. […] Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Iran, Nations, News, Society, World Watch, Worldview Item of the Day
Tagged Citizens, Constitution, Foreign Policy, Iran, Revolution
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Battlebots
The US Navy’s Office of Naval Research released an omnibus report on the potential pitfalls of autonomous combat systems slated to be delpoyed by the US and other militaries in the coming decades. Among the report’s warnings is that future civilization could be threatened by an uprising of military robots against us all. […] Continue reading
