Tom Butler Abstract There are four important concepts concerning the question of how a community describes itself and what it believes and/or studies. The first is that words are things, meaning that they conjure specific meaning. Words have power, meaning that word choice can determine the outcome to social processes. The medium is the message, meaning that … Read more
Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration Introduction Before including a point in an article, an editor must find someone, with reasonable credentials and with no obvious conflict of interest, stating the point in a source the editor can make people think is reliable. With that in mind, … Read more
Abstract This essay is a critiquing of two ITC Articles written by Imants Barušs which were published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. Educated people are role models and what they say tends to be accepted as fact, often without examination because it is stated by a person who should know. In fact, people sometimes … Read more
Also see: Pseudoscience Skeptic Wikipedia Bullying Editors Concerns with Wikipedia Wikipedia Watch Wikipedia Arbitration General Wikipedia is hugely important as a means of documenting society and making that knowledge base available to anyone with access to the Internet. For the most part, it has been successful. The point of this article is that Wikipedia has … Read more
Introduction to Developing a Winning Attitude How is it that some people seem to go through life winning while the rest of us struggle? What does it take to be lucky? Is there a genetic trait that predisposes people to win? You know the ones I mean. All of us had one of those “most … Read more