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At Stat News: Science has got obesity all wrong

A science writer reflects on the way paradigms work. If he’s right, a popular paradigm it was dangerous to doubt will come under fire.

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Did fatness rule the Stone Age?

Not all Stone Age Venus figurines, of which 200 have been found, were fat. It doesn’t seem as though much has changed over 25 millennia except that many more people have much more to eat. So fatness wouldn’t signify success in more modern cultures.

jerry A comment from 17 years ago I hope this will erase the complacency on this web site that ID is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes ~ “external criticism” KF: PM1, you tried to set up a frame that invites an insulation around internalism. PM1: I... – Is the Galton Board evidence for...
Origenes Sandy @74 ~The (strong) emergence concept stems from the extreme reductionist mindset. Chalmers: We can say that a high-level phenomenon... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PS, by weak form, I here imply that for any A that is/is not/may be/may not be/ is impossible, we... – Is the Galton Board evidence for...
kairosfocus PM1, yes, you did make such claims and continue to do so. However, we both know that a material issue... – Is the Galton Board evidence for...
kairosfocus HN42, excellent question. I find in the Chalmers corpus: We can say that a high-level phenomenon is strongly emergent with... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, it is precisely because of the slipperiness of "naturalism," that I draw out briefly, the focal form, evolutionary materialistic... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
bornagain77 Seversky at 71 pays lip service to valuing empirical evidence Sev: "You could say it (empirical evidence) has more practical... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
hnorman42 Regarding strong emergence -- Is there any way to test for the difference between strong emergence and not having any... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Querius Whistler @64 and Bornagain77 @69, I've mentioned this before in other posts, but it bears repeating. The earliest example in... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Sandy Origenes Emergentism is the hypothesis that something that cannot be explained from its parts nonetheless follows(?) from its parts and... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
StephenB Origenes: I am asking you to please reconsider your statement. Suppose you walk in the street, can it be said... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
vividbleau Sev 71 So what? Vivid – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes ~ Eric Anderson on **emergence** It is true that we can use words (like “instinct”) to describe things that are... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
bornagain77 Seversky is upset about a very questionable quote denigrating atheists? The Claim is that George H.W. Bush said this at... – Atheists vs Christians: Who makes the...
relatd Seversky at 70, If those statements about George Bush senior, and others, are true, why didn't atheists go to the... – Atheists vs Christians: Who makes the...
Seversky OhReally/68 Seversky at 66 George Bush on atheists as citizens or patriots – Atheists vs Christians: Who makes the...
Origenes StephenB @167 Ori: The actions of B cannot be a separate entity from B, instead they are an inextricable aspect... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Seversky Vividbleau/66 As StephenB would say “Reason informs the evidence not the other way around” Reason without data is vacuous. For... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes WJM@ The simpler version of the “God is sufficient cause, therefore determinative” argument is that when God creates a person,... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
relatd Seversky at 67, I disapprove of the arrogance of the Woke Mob who believes that they are perfect and are... – Atheists vs Christians: Who makes the...