WSJ: You Cannot ‘Pause’ Evolution (2015)
My 4/20/2015 WSJ Letter to the Editor, reprinted here: Drs. Baltimore and Berg have unimpeachable scientific credentials, but judging from their opinion piece, they appear to have an incomplete...
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My 5/3/2012 WSJ Letter to the Editor, reprinted here: LETTERS Survival of the Fittest Is Best Defense for Cyber Attacks May 3, 2012 3:55 p.m. ET Judging from his April 23 op-ed “Everyone Should Pay for...
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BJA: We’d be better off keeping cryptography free (1994)
A Who’s Who of cryptographic geniuses published this 31 page indictment of Government stupidity yesterday (7/7/2015): Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all...
View ArticleWSJ: The Robots May Become More Ethical Than Most of Us (2015)
My 8/1/2015 WSJ Letter to the Editor, reprinted here: [My proposed title was “Lame Robotic Strawmen”, but the WSJ ignored that.] July 31, 2015 4:30 p.m. ET The concerns expressed in the essay “Is It...
View ArticleUW: Making and Breaking The Rules (2018)
[From the Spring 2018 University of Washington Medicine magazine, reflecting my volunteer efforts on behalf of the UW Institute for Protein Design.] Benjamin W. Slivka, formerly of Microsoft and...
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WSJ Opinion: Partisan Science in America, by Gary Saul Morson
[original post on wsj.com] OPINION COMMENTARY Partisan Science in America Scientists corrode public trust when they pretend to have authority on social and political matters. By Gary Saul Morson Oct....
View ArticleDiscredit of Others, 1952, E.B. White
In The Free Press recently, Peggy Noonan recommended the 2019 book On Democracy by e.b. white (a selection of White’s writing by his granddaughter Martha). I read the Kindle edition on my airplane...
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