[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[Krimel]

> [Platt]
> Science challenges its assumptions as often as Obama challenges big 
> spending programs. I'm sure Krimel will let us know if and when either 
> happens, but don't hold your breath.
> 
> [Krimel]
> Every experiment ever conducted was designed to challenge some form of
> scientific assumption. 

[Platt]
Tell us which of the following scientific assumptions science challenges: 
determinism, reductionism, empiricism, materialism, externalism, mechanism, 
experimentalism, emergitism, conditionalism.

[Krimel]
All of them every single day.

> [Krimel]
> I believe Obama recently announced that the full cost of the Iran war
> will be included in the annual budget rather than handled in emergency
> appropriations. 

[Platt]
Did you mean the Iraq war? How about the full cost of the Afghanistan war?

[Krimel]
Sorry I did mean Iraq. It is hard to shake off the long national nightmare
when a new war or disaster seem to lurk around every corner.