Clay Fulghum
My blogs
| Industry | Communications or Media |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Blue Ridge Mountains, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a former newspaper reporter and editor with a liberal arts background—an unequivocal scientific outsider. It is my generalist’s perspective that I bring to the table. My intention here to point out what I think specialists might have missed, namely that there has been over-reaching on the part of some scientists into non-scientific realms. My problem is not evidence-based science, without which we might not know the dangers we face from global warming. We might not have an accurate reckoning of the loss of species. Scientific research of this sort is precious beyond measure. It's epistemologically dubious metaphysical extrapolations that I object to. The purpose of this blog is to point out where I believe science exceeds its mandate and becomes philosophy and metaphysics. |
| Interests | Contemporary physics and cosmology, philosophy of science, formalist poetry, sentience of animals. |
| Favorite music | The Well-Tempered Clavichord by Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Favorite books | "Why Does the World Exist," by Jim Holt." "Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth," by Jim Baggott "Uncertainty," by David Lindley |