Coronavirus Common Sense (and a Classic Cautionary Tale).

This blogger has watched with amazement the fear, panic, and hysterical overreaction to the discovery of the newest head-and-chest-cold virus to come out of China. Scientists who should know better how to calculate statistics, have fudged the reported fatality rate by using the wrong denominator in the equation: If anybody in the Epidemiology class I … Continue reading Coronavirus Common Sense (and a Classic Cautionary Tale).

Why does Death Inspire Fear?

Fear of death is a hard-wired, natural emotion. It resides in organized forms of life at the atomic level, because those particles recoil from the idea of dissolving into their constituent sub-atomic parts and returning to a state of chaos. I think it's funny that the atheists among physicists don't accept that the cosmology they … Continue reading Why does Death Inspire Fear?