Thanks to Siris for putting us in mind of Plato on this election day. Socrates, in Plato’s Gorgias: No, Callicles, the very bad men come from the class of those who have power. And yet in that very class there may arise good men, and worthy of all admiration they are, for where there is… Continue reading

When Scientists Speak Ill of their ColleaguesLarry Moran has a great post on how John Maynard Smith embarrassed himself when he disparaged the work of Stephen Jay Gould.