So, then, record snow storms in all kinds of odd places. Evidence for melting Himalayan glaciers . . . melts. The culprits were caught cooking the books. The guy at the center of that controversy now admits that nothing has been warming since 1995, and beside, they lost a bunch of papers, with evidence n’ …
Getting a Post Hoc Post Doc
Among the informal logical fallacies, one of the most common is called the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Translated it means “after this, therefore because of this.” B follows A, and it is therefore assumed that A must have been the cause of B. This fallacy is so prevalent that it could easily be …
Foodstuffs
As you know, I have been writing a great deal about foodstuffs. Now Peter Leithart has provided some bedrock to build on. Check it out here.
Just the Right Amount of Me
Last night I had the privilege of participating in a good discussion about “food issues” with a number of men. That discussion was wide-ranging, so there will be no attempt to reproduce it here. But it did jog me in a couple of areas, and you are about to read the results of that. First, …
Since the Time of Rutherford B. Hayes
C.S. Lewis noted in his essay on the reading of old books that one of the great blessings of doing so is that it gets you out of your chronological provincialism. When you are stuck in your small town mentality, small differences are magnified and treated as though they were everything. But when you get …
What PTE is Not
I have often heard Christians who want to be culturally engaged and relevant appeal to the old statement from Augustine, when he justified Christians partaking of classical learning, saying that we were “plundering the Egyptians.” And there is something to that. We don’t want simply to echo Tertullian’s famous comment when his famous Jerusalem said …
Get Between the Hogs and the Bucket
As I have been writing on “creation and food,” and the whole ag-econ system that gets food on our plates, some may assume that I want to be nothing more than a shill for the status quo. However, this assumption would go clean contrary to quite a number of things I have written about it, …
How Many Idahos Would It Take?
These numbers are approximations for the most part, sketched out on the back of a napkin. They may be a reflection of my deficient education in math growing up, or of me believing the wrong web site on how much hay an acre of grassland produces, or perhaps a function of some other gross personal …
That Poor Mutt, the Taxpayer
So let’s talk for a bit about what “sustainable” means. But before talking about sustainable at the level of food and food production, we should first consider the sustainability of ideas. One thing that is not really sustainable is fear mongering. That is why faddists are nomadic. They stay camping on one fear fad until …
Here. Try a Bigger Knife.
So last night I watched Food, Inc., a movie about the unsavory side of the food manufacturing industry in America. And, not surprisingly, I have a few things to say about it. But only a few — no need to answer every twig and leaf when the trunk is right there. But first, I want …