myths – Armed With Reason

Debunking Myths, Interview

NPR Segment: The Myth of Defensive Gun Use

Feb 3, 2015, 12:43 AM 13

I was on the NPR program On The Media discussing the Myth of Defensive Gun Use. You can listen to the interview inside. We discuss aliens, social desirability bias, empirical attempts to quantify Defensive Gun Use Estimates, and the fact that…

Philosophy, Short Read

The Inevitability Argument: Why Conservatives Love It, And Why That’s Just the Way Things Are

Nov 18, 2013, 6:03 PM 8

The Way Things Are “What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are” –Epictetus Claims that problems are inevitable, or that attempts to resolve problems will inevitably fail whether they be physical feats, or scientific barriers,…