Bruce Charlton's Notions

I began actually *doing* science in 1984 (a significant date, perhaps) - or, at least, that's what I thought I was doing. I have worke...

“As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already...

"First, the problem with the European model, namely: It drains too much of the life from life. (...) "I start from this premise:...

“How is science done in our days? “Here I must immediately make a distinction between science as a profession and science as the expressio...

I was always puzzled by the submissive flaccidity of modern Western societies: the way that - although they live to maximize gratification a...

Charlton's Law: Things must always get worse before they can get better; Because otherwise they already would be better.

I have tentatively enabled moderated comments, as an experiment. However, I will only allow comments that I judge suitable for general pub...

Dishonest or statistically-incompetent state education propagandists in the UK mass media and 'research' (actually leftist propagand...

"[The Byzantine Empire's constitution] was based on a clear religious conviction: that it was the earthly copy of the Kingdom of He...

"Why not?" is a phrase and attitude that is used to justify destruction of existing social institutions. "Why not?" co...

Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) invented the term 'the habit of truth' to describe the fundamental and distinctive ethic of science: the...

Charles Murray's book length quantitative analysis of Human Accomplishment, made a big impact on me. I 'brooded' over it for qui...

The most striking aspect of modern secular society, which would have amazed and horrified our ancestors, is the moral inversion by which hav...

Atheists commonly misunderstand it when Christians are critical of a primarily this-worldly and hedonic life - i.e. a life dedicated to maxi...

Scientific progress is talked about in three main ways, depending on the numbers/ proportion of the population involved in generating this p...

The story of the development of the SSRI (selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor) drugs – the Prozac’ group of ‘antidepressants’ has been in...

We have become used to growth in scientific knowledge, and expect growth in scientific knowledge. This expectation at first shaped reality, ...

"I must tell you first of all that, to the best of our knowledge, there are no startsi today—that is, truly God-bearing elders (in the ...

My favourite television show - from the perspective of purely self-indulgent entertainment - is Cricket Writers on TV. Indeed CWoTV it is ...

For several decades, most psychiatrists have propagated the idea that 'depression' (Major Depressive Disorder, Endogenous Depression...

For Christians, repentance is a first step on a short path to forgiveness; but modern secular leftist guilt has no answer. Repentance and ...