Political Readings of the Week (weekly)

• The Science of Guns Proves Arming Untrained Citizens Is a Bad Idea: Scientific American

  Science, bitches. It works.

  tags: politics thought science violence

• Why We Should Choose Science over Beliefs: Scientific American

  The scientific process was invented to overcome our tendencies to have irrational beliefs, logical fallacies, and mental traps. He mentions a couple of them - confirmation bias is, of course, huge today, when you can watch news shows tailored to how you already think. While I don't have faith in scientists (they are fallible humans, after all), I trust in the scientific *process* - especially when that process is repeated through many different sources and methods.

  tags: politics science brain climate violence thought

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Political Readings of the Week (weekly)

• Scientists’ depressing new discovery about the brain - Salon.com

  tags: politics thought science brain

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Political Readings of the Week (weekly)

• What Snowden and Manning Don't Understand About Secrecy - Mark Bowden - The Atlantic

  tags: politics thought security

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Political Readings of the Week (weekly)

• The Science of Guns Proves Arming Untrained Citizens Is a Bad Idea: Scientific American

  Facts vs. Fantasy. 

  tags: science politics violence

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Political Readings of the Week (weekly)

• More Guns = More Killing - NYTimes.com

  Somehow, seeing armed guards everywhere has never made me feel "safe."

  tags: politics violence thought

  • “Generally, if you live in a civilized society, more guns mean more death,” said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. “There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at all.”
  • “Guns are not a defense, they are a risk.”
  • do I really want my kid’s teachers packing a weapon?

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