khms

• khms 27 Aug 2012 19:57 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: shelterit’s comment on: The non­cen­tral fal­lacy—the worst ar­gu­ment in the world?

  the Liberal Party (conservatives, ironically)

  Hmm. My understanding is that the liberal parties are rather often, let us say, closer to the conservative side of the spectrum. The reason this appears strange to especially citizens of the USA is that, for convoluted historical reasons, they use the term “liberal” to refer to the progressive side of the spectrum, whereupon their liberal party needs to be called “libertarian”. (And it’s not particularly progressive, either.)

• khms 30 May 2012 22:54 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Multiheaded’s comment on: Avoid in­fla­tion­ary use of terms

  Hmm. I wonder how many such studies looked at environments where the majority had a reasonable scientific education and there was no pre-existing religion?

  (This just might be a trick question.)