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Posts published in “Scientific Curmudgeon”

Thanksgiving Guilt Trip

The approach of Thanksgiving, that quintessential American holiday, has me brooding once again over scientists’ slanderous portrayals of Native Americans as bellicose brutes.

Beauty does not equal truth

Poet John Keats once said, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all/Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.”

Kicking My Caffeine Addiction, Part I

I recently carried out an experiment involving my decades-long caffeine consumption. I have ingested caffeine, mostly in the form of coffee, since my twenties.

Has physics lost its way?

John Horgan asks, "Does anyone who follows physics doubt it is in trouble?"

How Google could help end war

Can a war that kills the innocent be just? John Horgan explores the morality or war, killing, and the role of Google.