Taxes

When it comes to paying taxes, the only moral issue is whether or not you complied with the law. If you feel like someone isn’t paying enough taxes, you should lobby your congressperson.

If you haven’t already, you should read Larry Correia’s guide to how taxes work.

Science!

I don’t believe in Science. If it’s about belief, it’s not science.

Science is about collecting evidence, forming explanations, and then testing those explanations by collecting more evidence, and so on and so forth. The more you go through this process, the more confident you can become that your explanations are correct. Even then, you have to be open to the possibility that additional evidence will overturn, or more likely require modification of, your explanations.

If someone tries to tell you that you have to believe in Science, they’re just trying to get you to conform to their orthodoxy. That isn’t science. Such people should be mocked and ignored.

By all means take science into account, but believe whatever you want.

It’s that time again

2020 has been a crazy year, but we’ve made it to September and we still have winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes and the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest. Enjoy!