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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Washington, DC.
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Physicist Lawrence Krauss: Science Can Dissolve Metaphysics
Posted on January 19, 2012 | 1 CommentI’m paraphrasing, but not much. There seem to be at least three distinct ways scientific answers can be brought to... -
Is Dark Matter A Scientific Theory In Crisis?
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsThere’s a very good scholar at USC Annenberg who works on the constraints that scientific institutions put on knowledge production,... -
No, Of Course Social Media Won’t Replace Science Journalism. Or Science Journals. Or Science Communication.
Posted on July 31, 2011 | 1 CommentDarren Naish of Tetrapod Zoology made the mistake of commenting on something that might be of interest to science journalists... -
Lifeworld Colonization Meets Mass Communication, Global Warming Edition
Posted on May 21, 2010 | No CommentsDemocratic theory 101: there is a technical sphere and a public sphere, and the two are by design separate and... -
Scientist Who Doesn’t Understand Judgment Tries To Persuade People To Drink Own Waste, Produces Rhetorical And Psychoanalytic Train Wreck, Comedy Gold
Posted on December 8, 2007 | No CommentsOrange County has just launched a Toilet To Tap water program to reclaim flushed waste, distill it, and return it... -
Severity Bias In Doctor-Patient Relationships Unhelpful To Glib, Non-Rhetorical Medical Ethics
Posted on November 24, 2007 | No CommentsWe really don’t have much to say about this beyond the obligatory “this is why it’s important for doctors to... -
Greek Version of Scientific Instrumentalism Was Particularly Instrumentalist
Posted on October 4, 2007 | No CommentsThere are at least two ways that science is circumstantially practiced. One is as a heavily mathematical search to understand... -
It Would Be Really Nice If Science Was What Chris Mooney Says It Is (Plus: Climate Scientists Learn The Hard Way That Making Scientific Method Into Collective Identity Is A Bad Idea)
Posted on October 2, 2007 | No CommentsWe used to call this the naive, self-congratulatory bench-scientist version of science. But we’re becoming inclined to think of it... -
Disturbingly, Quantitative Analysis May Have Methodological Shortcomings – Medical Studies Edition
Posted on September 14, 2007 | No CommentsFetishized social scientific methodologies from dissimilar fields are adapted by grant-hungry researchers and applied to unrepresentative samples of 18-21 year... -
Pentadic Ratios In The Rhetoric Of Addiction
Posted on September 12, 2007 | No CommentsThe Burkean pentad has a bad reputation for lending itself to cookie-cutter “this is the agent, this is the scene,...
