Comments on: A skeptical reading list

By: shawmutt

shawmutt — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:21:13 +0000

Fostering critical thinking skills is an ideology? What does that make science?

By: Anderson Fortaleza

Anderson Fortaleza — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:03:24 +0000

Dustin: When one publishes a blog one should be ready to receive positive and negative feedback, I’m not trying to convince the author of anything, I’m just stating my opinion that he should not contaminate science with his ideology.

If I would just “suck it up or leave” how would the blogger know that he may be right on somethings and wrong on others ? What is the usefulness of an article if there’s no criticism over it ?

By: Gonzo

Gonzo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:30:39 +0000

Thanks Phil! Posted the link to my Facebook, and finally friended you and became a fan! Huzzah!

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:22:43 +0000

Thanks for the timely link . My wife and I are expecting out first child in March and I’ll definitely be browsing through that entire list. I should have just enough time to read the whole thing before the little one pops out

For another sci-fi author worth checking out I’d recommend Peter F Hamilton. His stuff is a pretty good mix of both hard and soft sci-fi and the trilogies are truly massive tomes. If you can handle warp travel and the occasional ghost in your sci-fi you’ll probably love his work.

And Anderson: Good luck convincing a blogger they should stick to the topics you want them to. It’s a losing battle, and if he really makes you that uncomfortable you’d be better off to just suck it up or leave.

By: Femmostroppo Reader - June 26, 2009 — Hoyden About Town

Femmostroppo Reader - June 26, 2009 — Hoyden About Town — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:15:31 +0000

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By: sophia8

sophia8 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:43:07 +0000

I can barely read anything on that site – could somebody tell the site author that tiny light-coloured text on white is a VERY bad idea? I can send him links on coding for accessibility if he wants.
In case it’s just my browser/screen that’s shrinking the text, I’m using FF3/1280 x 1024.

By: Anderson Fortaleza

Anderson Fortaleza — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:13:09 +0000

It’s such a pity that your blog is filled with your ideology, it would be much more useful if it would stick to science only, this way people of all ideologies could read it comfortably. You should leave your ideology out of your science.