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[This is a repost of an article that appeared on 21 Dec 2011 at Science Meets Religion.] One of the most common refrains in news and commentaries, from both the religious right and the secular left, is that modern society is in sharp decline: skyrocketing rates of crime, divorce, teenage sex, teenage births, drug abuse . . . → Read More: The great decline of Western society: What are the facts? [This is a repost of an article that appeared on 23 Dec 2011 in The Conversation]. Recently there was an excellent, and much read, article on The Conversation entitled There’s no place for pseudo-scientific chiropractic in Australian universities which made the case against chiropractic “medicine” all too well. Dodgy doctors are dodgy wherever they . . . → Read More: Chiropractic: crackers now, and crackers way back when Many will greet the title of this piece with considerable skepticism — in this day and age how could one possibly talk about a decline in violence? Yet it is true. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker begins his new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined as follows: This book is about . . . → Read More: The remarkable decline of violence [Note: A condensed and revised version of this article was published here in The Conversation, an online forum of academic research headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.] Assessing risk is something everyone must do every day. Yet few are very good at it, and there are significant consequences to the public’s collective inability to accurately assess risk. . . . → Read More: Innumeracy and public risk |
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