Sublime

the fact that the few theories we can test have produced quite poor results suggests that many of the ideas we haven’t tested are very wrong as well. We are undoubtedly living with many delusions that we do not even realize.

what we learn from professionals in the real world is that data is not necessarily rigor.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”

“The internet is a fad, blogging is a trend, and real journalism will never die,” my college professor said.

Thus the theory claimed to stand outside the jurisdiction of normal (i.e. all) modes of criticism – a hallmark of bad philosophy.

So what would refute the Darwinian theory of evolution?

“This is the crux of science,” he’d say with enthusiasm. “All science is modeling. In all science you are abstracting from nature. The question is: is it a useful abstraction.” Useful, to Bob Glass, meant: Does it help solve a problem?