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    I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…

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    I suspect evolutionary and behavioural perspectives are left seriously underappreciated in this approach to epistemology. Reichenbach’s claim that epistemology must…

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    Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…

“Masters of Stupidity”

A law professor at another university writes with the following amusing remarks (not to mention nice words, which I get to gratuitously include):

“First, my compliments on your ever-interesting blog. Every day brings worthwhile and often horrifying information, expressed wittily and pungently. The swine in the White House shouldn’t seek reelection; he should seek absolution. Keep up the good work!

“Probably I’m the last person in the world to realize this, but I wandered through some creationist sites recently and found that the Institute of Creation Research is authorized by the State of California to award the M.S. degree. If the S stood for stupidity I wouldn’t much care, but how on earth can this group purport to give degrees in science, degrees held out as credentials by their brainwashed possessors? A college friend teaches at a little religious college in
[name omitted] where one of the science faculty has an ICR M.S. as his highest
degree. I suspect I learned more and better biology from Mr. Bloomhuff in ninth grade.”

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