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

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.