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Ray Corrigan - B2fxxx: PM's claims about DNA database false

Mon, 2008/06/30 - 08:05 — Keren

Speaking of fearmongering, GeneWatch UK have looked into Gordon Brown's recent claim that 114 murderers would have walked free if innocent people's DNA was not recorded on the national DNA database. They concluded, not surprisingly, that:

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1. The Prime Minister’s claim is false;

 
 
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Ray Corrigan - B2fxxx: PM's claims about DNA database false

Mon, 2008/06/30 - 04:05 — Keren

Speaking of fearmongering, GeneWatch UK have looked into Gordon Brown's recent claim that 114 murderers would have walked free if innocent people's DNA was not recorded on the national DNA database. They concluded, not surprisingly, that:

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1. The Prime Minister’s claim is false;

 
 
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Doug Clow - Doug Clow's Imaginatively-Titled Work-Related Blog: No, Google isn’t making us stupid

Wed, 2008/06/25 - 07:05 — Keren

There’s been a lot of commentary about Nicholas Carr’s article in The Atlantic, Is Google Making Us Stupid?  Carr is worried that, like HAL in 2001, he can feel his mind going.  He used to read for long stretches, but:

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Various - Open Minded Ethics: Might We Need Induction for Ethical Reasons?

Wed, 2008/05/21 - 16:06 — Keren

(based on a discussion with Chris Hoeckley, Kevin Sharpe, Jim Taylor and David Vander Laan) 

I.  Simple-minded question about logical methodology:  Why do we bother to recognize induction as a separate category of inference?  Why not treat all inferences as deductive, but with a probabilistic qualification built into the conclusions of some of them? 

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