ssteffin

This has to be the worst example of Junk Science, I have seen in a long time. What you have done is to take a serious issue – Clinical Depression – and reduced it to a simplistic group of assertions completely lacking in any capability for careful validation. If indeed you have a Graduate degree in Sociology, what happened to what you learned in the Research methods courses? Some of what you say is countered by the available evidence, some counterintuitive, and some just plain silly. How, for example, do you possibly come to this conclusion? “It should come as no surprise that the vast majority of prison inmates are socially and emotionally underdeveloped or mal-developed and a larger than average percentage of them are more intelligent than the norm.” Which component of the approximately two million prisoners held in U.S. prisons fit this classification? Perhaps it’s the Hispanic and Black Gang-Bangers, or the huge percentage who are simply in prison for illegal possession of drugs. Since you have a preference for anecdotal evidence over repeatable observation, ask any member of the law enforcement community cop, prosecutor, judge the single characteristic applying to ...

As someone who has, throughout his life, formed his world view from the perspective of the methods and philosophy of science, I find great difficulty in reconciling some of the contradictions, both as regards factual proof, and your personal conclusions. Perhaps you might find it useful to ponder the questions I raise. In your review of Ayn Rand’s, Anthem, you say, “Equality’s (the protagonist) world is one horribly different than our own; a world where individualism is forbidden, and human rights are infringed upon in an effort to achieve total equality among mankind.” You assert that the Bible is completely true. If that is the case, for those who are adherents to the bible, how can they be diverse, individualistic, and exercise free will, if the Bible provides a complete instruction set for their expected behavior? From earliest history, Scientific and technological progress largely been resisted as heretical by the religion prevailing, when each of these developments occurred. If religious leaders were correct in their interpretations that these discoveries were violations of biblical intent, why do they continue to not only survive, but thrive? “[Article] Our modern E...

Your proposed raising of a robot army would certainly vastly enhance our military capabilities. Unfortunately, the mismanagement of military hardware of all kinds is not likely to soon end. At the most basic level, our troops lack some of the currently available technology for their own protection. Up-armored Humvees are still in short supply. The Ireland-made Trophy anti-grenade launcher has been refused by the Department of the Army. Fired grenades are the single greatest source of source of combat casualties (even greater than those caused by IEDs, but omly politics has prevented this effective prevention from being used. South Korea is years ahead of us in working robot infantry -- so why aren't we buying and deploying these robots? In the end, it would appear to me that mismanagement and politics, not manufacturing capability is the reason we have failed to substitute machines for men.