I don't like to repost, but Steve Novella has some great pieces up right now, and this is directly related. --PalMD

s I've clearly demonstrated in earlier posts, I'm no philosopher. But I am a doctor, and, I believe, a good one at that, and I find some of this talk about "non-materialist" perspectives in science to be frankly disturbing, and not a little dangerous.

...I would be feeling like an idiot right about now. A while ago, I endorsed Sonia Chang-Diaz over Dianne Wilkerson for MA State Senate because I thought Wilkerson had some ethics problems. I didn't know the half of it (italics mine):

One of the things that has puzzled me about natural history/science museums are the mineralogy exhibits. They really don't seem to be about anything other than "OOH! SHINY PEBBLE!" Mind you, they often have some very cool and shiny pebbles, but contrast them to paleontology exhibits.

Encephalon is up at Mind Hacks! Go check it out!

Greta and I are off to vote today, so you'll have to get your psychology fix over there.

Oh, and out of curiousity: