We’ve all seen news stories that claim a “new study” has come out that shows some new thing causes or prevents…
Will86
Will86
I have an old old book, Spock Must Die. Obviously not Cannon, but in it McCoy argues that transporters kill you. So Scotty creates a new transporter using tachyons, which has a much longer range... and when using it they get back 2 spocks, one of them where everything is backwards, including his internal organs.
Interesting talk of homonins aside, let's not forget that "The Chase" was a metaphor. The point was not that Klingons, Romulans and Humans, etc, all share a common ancestor. The point was that Africans, Asians and Europeans, etc. (or Russian, Chinese, American, etc. if you will) all share a common ancestor. …
Didn't they use transporters to fix them?
It all started a couple of years ago when IBM's Watson, the computer voted most likely to destroy us when the…
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten is to attack your own belief/argument hardest. Not only does this ensure you avoid confirmation bias, it ensures the conclusion you draw in the end is factually and logically based, not the result of an already formed opinion.
Every day, we’re confronted with claims that others present as fact. Some are easily debunked, some are clearly…