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Talk: Data Mining, Truth, Justice, the American Way, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Sat Sep 22 06:56:42 PDT 2007
President Bush advises that students should be exposed to many different schools of though. In this matter, he is less than totally correct.
An important part of science is to expose people to the critical and continual (re)evaluation of ideas. Otherwise, any nonsense can be shoved down our throats such as pirates are causing global warming.
So this talk concerns notions of certainty and standards for debate. One surprise will be that nothing is "true" (in a scientific sense) but many more things are false. Implications for humility, tolerance, and justice will be discussed.
