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Joe Cruz is the chairman of the philosophy department at Williams College, a private liberal arts school in Massachusetts ...
There is a constitutional amendment on the ballot this fall to limit state income tax rates at 3.5%. I am opposing its ...
When discussing so-called alternative medicine (SCAM), logical fallacies are seldom far away. Recognising how they are used might sharpen our own reasoning and help us exposing misleading claims. Here ...
A former Republican leader in the NC General Assembly calls a constitutional amendment limiting income tax "a risky bet." ...
Government should tax only to raise money for its essential functions. I support a thorough review of expenditures each year. A goal I share with proponents of this amendment is a mechanism that will ...
On the factory floor, a post-hoc legal settlement is completely useless. A lawsuit does not rebuild a ruptured distillation column. A legal settlement does not reverse an environmental chemical spill.
Anecdotal fallacyIt treats an n=1 case as evidence as-is. Before even reaching hasty generalization, it hasn't even followed the procedures that could be called "generalization" in the first place.A ...
There aren’t any easy an­swers around Chi­na and biotech. End­points News took our Chi­na de­bate on the road to DC this week. We sat down with some of the peo­ple craft­ing new laws and poli­cies ...
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