Science or Pseudo-science

Here is a pretty good article about how to tell if something is not science.

The Chronicle: 1/31/2003: The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science

This week was a the first of a new quarter for me at LLU. One of the classes I am taking, and very much looking forward to, is a seminar in Science and Religion. At our first meeting we defined what science is and what religion is to our class, and how religion is different from theology and spirituality. Since we were mostly scientists we spent less time on that but I believe it is definitely important to think about it.


Here are some good quotes from the evening, uttered by the ethics professor Dr. Gerald Winslow.

Advice to aspiring professors -- "Don't lie awake wondering what to teach the student, lie awake at night wondering how to awaken inquiry in the students"

-- "You can't settle definitionial problems. What do you do get a bigger dictionary? All you can do is explain why you choose to use a word."