Monthly Archives: February 2015

Following the Money

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Science is the most difficult instance to bribe, because the only currency it accepts is evidence. Continue reading →

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On Farming, Animals, and the Environment

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

The way I see it, being labeled organic really shouldn’t stand in the way of choosing environmentally friendlier methods. Looking at the evidence I can find, sadly at this time this seems to be the case. Continue reading →

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Delving Deeper into the Roots of Organic

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

I would love to hear news of the organic agricultural movement getting ready to adopt a more evidence-based approach, no longer shunning methods solely on the claims of not being ‘natural’ enough.
And who knows, maybe it will happen? Continue reading →

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Am I Biased? Are You?

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Bias is a mental heuristic, and it can be as useful as it is dangerous. How can we know if we are blinded by bias? Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, biology, health, nutrition, organic | Tagged , | 9 Comments

Injecting Kindness into the Debate

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Vaccines are a topic that stir up a lot of emotions. How should we talk about them? Will anything we do make a difference? What if we frame the question somewhat differently: can we make a difference by the way behave in our interactions with other people? Continue reading →

Posted in epistemology, existentialism, health, medicine, psychology, science, science communication, society, vaccines | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Why Science?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Why science? Because science is the one gig in town that’s sitting down around the table and thinking hard on ‘how can we truly know something?’ Continue reading →

Posted in consensus, epistemology, health, medicine, methods, science, science communication, vaccines | Tagged , , , | 9 Comments

Shamelessly Serendipitous

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

This piece is about my journey as a writer from one language to another – from Finnish to English. It was originally published in The Woolf, a literary online publication in Switzerland, in their summer 2014 issue themed Exploitation. It’s about the linguistic exploitation of one’s mother tongue as a non-native writer. Continue reading →

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Natural Assumptions

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Iida writes of her attempt to defend organic, of the risks of repeating slogans, and of how pieces of worldview are built and change, sometimes as easily as with a comment or two. Continue reading →

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Why Thoughtscapism?

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

The sort of infectious curiosity that makes you go: I wonder how that works. How did they find out? What does that mean? Continue reading →

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