Science & Technology
History, Philosophy, Science & Technology
The Missile Gap and the Morality Gap
Wendell Hoenir January 21, 2010
In my post about the contradiction between the technological sophistication of the Burj Dubai and the primitive superstition on display in the mosque at its pinnacle, I argued that this disparity is another example of the general disparity in progress between science and morality. But what accounts for this gap?…
Philosophy, Science & Technology
The Towering Contradiction
Wendell Hoenir January 18, 2010
[caption id="attachment_33190" align="alignright" width="300"] Image: Petter Palander[/caption] The beginning of the new year and decade bore witness to the opening of the world's newest tallest building: the Burj Dubai in the UAE. Like many other commentators, Landon Thomas of the New York Times noted the dire economic situation Dubai faces…
Science & Technology
'Doing Nothing' Is An Option
Paul Hsieh December 15, 2009
Remember when President Obama insisted that health care "reform" had to be done his way, and that doing nothing was "not an option"? Well, the American people disagree. In "Do Nothing, Majority Says" (Wall Street Journal, December 10, 2009), James Taranto notes a recent Fox News poll showing: While 41…
Reviews, Science & Technology
Review: Red Hot Lies, by Christopher C. Horner
Daniel Wahl November 20, 2009
Daniel Wahl reviews Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed, by Christopher C. Horner.
Reviews, Science & Technology
Review: Heaven and Earth, by Ian Plimer
Gus Van Horn November 20, 2009
Gus Van Horn reviews Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science, by Ian Plimer.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
What the “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” HR 3962, Actually Says
John David Lewis November 20, 2009
Asks ten crucial questions regarding the proposed law; examines what the proposed legislation actually says with respect to these questions; and evaluates the bill accordingly, showing that, if passed, it would massively expand government power over the health-care industry, virtually eliminate the remnants of freedom left in this market, and thus increase the U.S. government’s violations of individual rights by orders of magnitude.
Science & Technology
Pharmacide: The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Self-Destructive Effort to Loot America
Cassandra Clark November 20, 2009
Provides an illuminating view of the pharmaceutical industry, showing that industry executives have advocated and continue to advocate rights-violating legislation through which the companies gain revenue taken coercively by the government from American taxpayers—and further showing that the pharmaceutical industry’s advocacy of such legislation is killing . . . the industry itself.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Lin Gilbert's Rationing Story
Paul Hsieh November 12, 2009
Canadian Lin Gilbert tells of the wait she endured for over two years for her MRI and spine surgery, and the toll it took on her life: http://www.youtube.com/embed/9Kyoxy1ufhg In Canada, health care is never truly a "right". She was repeatedly told that she hadn't suffered for long enough to receive…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
The Best Option For The Public
Paul Hsieh November 6, 2009
In the November 4, 2009 Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby outlines the best option for the public. (Hint -- it's not the "public option".) From his article, "An option for public: less government, more choice": A government-run health insurer would radically tilt the health-insurance playing field. It would amount to a…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Praying Won't Make It So
Stella Daily Zawistowski November 5, 2009
I'm a second-year student in the Objectivist Academic Center, and the class is currently working through the difference between the metaphysically given (such as the law of gravity) and the man-made (such as traffic laws). The man-made is the result of choice, and as such is subject to praise or…
