Nothing seems to excite me more than tales of Conspiracy in Aotearoa. Thus when Peter Cresswell, an Objectivist and Libertarianz linked to an article by Trevor Loudon and Bernard Moran about the Soviet plot to make New Zealand nuclear-free I was in conspiratorial heaven.
Entries Tagged as 'Commentary'
Correlation does not equal causation, gentlemen!
March 22nd, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: 1984 · Aotearoa · Commentary · Communism · New Zealand
Fisking Fisk’s fiskers
August 28th, 2007 No Comments
So, the world (well, bits of it) are all in a tizzy because Robert Fisk believes that 9/11 was an inside job.People believe silly things all the time. In this case, however, it seems people are believing silly things about Fisk.Sure, Fisk has said a number of things which we might questionable, objectionable or just [...]
Tags: Commentary · Explanations
You will become like us
July 12th, 2007 2 Comments
So, emotive language is now apparently something we should not be using when defending Science, Philosophy, proper Theology and so forth. Or, at least, this is what the people at ‘The Briefing Room’ seem to think. In this post, on Atheism, Dawkins is criticised for being emotive and all the atheistic commentators seem to have [...]
Tags: Atheism · Commentary
The Old Oil Chestnut
June 11th, 2007 2 Comments
I seem to be delivering content to this blog at the moment and I have the horrible feeling that you (on meagre readership) might think this to be a) a good thing and b) a sign of further good things to come. I had hoped to dissuade you of this today with a filler post [...]
Tags: Commentary · Explanations · Institutional Analysis
Exercise
July 3rd, 2008 No Comments
As it should be well known by now, I accept the theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. Still, being a Conspiracy Theory Theorist I do sometimes read things in a conspiracy-seeking way (by way of an intellectual exercise) and this piece by Massimo Pigliucci is just dandy.
Pigliucci, a philosopher and biologist, is attending a discussion [...]
Tags: Commentary