Date: August 24, 2024 Author: Tim Platnich I am not a fan of the 'left' and 'right' dichotomy. These days, the media typically express...

Author: Tim Platnich Date: August 12, 2024; Updated August 19, 2024 What I mean by reasonable people is people who think critically about issues. What I mean by thinking critically is explored in my previous post, here . For our purposes in this post, reasonable people are people who have formed opinions on issues after some research and analysis. Their opinions are tentative in that new research or demonstrated errors in their analayis may change their opinions. At the other

Author: Tim Platnich Date: May 18, 2024 Why are people homeless? I am sure there is a lot of data on this point. Without going into that data, analytically, there are four possible types of people who are homeless: 1) those that elect a homeless lifestyle; 2) those that are homeless due to mental illness; 3) those that are homeless due to drug or alcohol addiction; and 4) those who are involuntarily homeless due to financial or other causes. It may or may not be important to

Author: Tim Platnich Published: April 27, 2024 A tribe, in the most general sense, is a group of people who identify with the tribe's...

Author: Tim Platnich Publish Date: April 18, 2024 There are two fundamental pillars of progressive ideology. These are: critical theory and post-modernism. In a nutshell, critical theory divides people into two classes: the oppressors and the oppressed. This division applies in many contexts including: the rich oppressing the poor capitalists oppressing the proletariate white people oppressing everyone else men oppressing women successful people oppressing unsuccessful people

Author: Tim Platnich Published: April 5, 2024 In this post, I will talk about three ways science is used to magnify the risks faced by...

Author: Tim Platnich Originally Published: February 19, 2024; Revised February 25, 2024; Further Revised April 4, 2024 One merely needs to google 'attacks on science' to find numerous articles concerning people that are said to be anti-science. What does it mean to be anti-science? What is science? The term 'science' has two contexts. On the one hand, it refers to a method by which knowledge of the empirical world is obtained. On the other hand, it refers to the body of knowl

Author: Tim Platnich Original Publish Date: February 5, 2024; Updated April 5 and 12, 2024 On January 31, 2024, the Alberta government...

Original   Date:   January   28, 2024; Revised February 21, 2024. Author:   Tim   Platnich This post discusses the assertion that climate...

Original   Date:   January   25, 2024; Revised February 25, 2024 Author:   Tim   Platnich It is often reported in the media that a given...

Original Date: January 17, 2024; Revised February 25, 2024 Author: Tim Platnich The data supports the proposition that the average...

Original Date: January 10, 2024; Revised February 25, 2024 Author: Tim Platnich This post will deal with the presentation of temperature...

Original Date: January 10, 2024; Updated: January 14, 2024 and February 25, 2024. Author: Tim Platnich Following up on Post #2, I want to...

Original Date: January 10, 2024; Updated: January 14, 2024 and February 25, 2024 Author: Tim Platnich In the Post on Climate and Weather,...

Original Date: January 10, 2024; Revised February 25, 2024 Author: Tim Platnich Climate change is in the news daily. Over a series of...

Original Date: December 6, 2023 Author: Tim Platnich To answer this question, it seems logical to start with some understanding of what it means to 'colonize'. People migrate. The earliest homo sapiens migrated from Africa to the Middle East, Europe and Asia in repeated waves. Was the first migration a form of colonization? What about the subsequent migrations? Did homo sapiens colonize the Neanderthals who arrived in Europe first? What about the first-peoples of the Americas

I submit that rioting is always wrong. Let me explain. First, I will define what I mean by rioting. Rioting is a non-peaceful...

Let's say a 'critical thinker' is presented with a statement like 'X causes Y'. What does the critical thinker do with the statement? The...

Original Date: November 17, 2023; Updated January 14, 2024 Author: Tim Platnich In the recent Federal Court decision: Responsible Plastic...

Original Date: November 5, 2023; Updated: January 14, 2024 and August 24, 2024. Author: Tim Platnich In June, 2020, Prime Minister Justin...