• Members Only
    • Login

Canadian Association for the Club of Rome

Become active - It's your duty!

  • Home
  • About
    • About the Club
    • Meet our Directors and Members
    • CACOR Groups
  • Articles
    • Climate
    • CACOR Groups
    • Quotes
    • Trending
    • CACOR Writers
    • What are you doing
    • Solutions & Pathways
    • CACOR YouTube
  • Events & Resources
    • Luncheon Events
    • CACOR Forum
    • Presentations
    • Resources
    • Announcements
  • Contact Us
  • Membership

CACOR is a non-governmental organization
dedicated to intelligent debate and action on global issues.

2020-08-23

The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful

How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses When I showed some of these Instagram accounts to Sophie Bishop, a lecturer in digital humanities at King’s College London, she identified in all of them a “very recognizable,” feminine-coded aesthetic. “It’s aspirational, and then it’s also authentic enough to allow for relatability,” she […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Account held Honest, Accounting for Values, conversation, fake news, Honest Account, honest evidence, Honesty, Post-Truth, Truth-is-Dead-Long-Live-Honesty, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-07-04

There should never be heroes in science

Some scientists make their careers by criticising other’s research. But who watches the watchmen? …those self-critical, self-correcting principles of science simply don’t allow for hero-worship. Even the strongest critics of science need themselves to be criticised; those who raise the biggest questions about the way we do research need themselves to be questioned. Healthy science […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Honest Accounts, Honesty, Reasoning, Science, Skepticism, Truth-is-Dead-Long-Live-Honesty, values, Valuing Values, Wisdom-as-Multiple-ways-of-Reasoning Leave a Comment

2019-12-27

Speaking truth to power – there’s no such thing as neutral

There is no such thing as neutral. There is no position, no placeholder, that doesn’t carry with it some subjectivity based on our experiences in the world. “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” if someone says it’s raining, and someone else says we’re […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / conversation, Honesty, Post-Fact, Truth, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-07-16

Honesty is majority policy in lost wallet experiment

Public more likely to return wallet containing larger sum of money, global study finds Here’s a moral dilemma: if you find a wallet stuffed with bank notes, do you pocket the cash or track down the owner to return it? We can each speak for ourselves, but now a team of economists have put the […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Debt-as-Social-Fabric, Homo Economicus, Honest Account, Honesty, Social Fabric, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-02-11

Getting it right

Truth is neither absolute nor timeless. But the pursuit of truth remains at the heart of the scientific endeavour But philosophers of science, over the past half-century, have turned against the representation of science as a ceaseless forward march toward truth. It is just not how science works, how it moves through history. It flies […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / All Knowledge is Partial, Explicit Knowledge, Fact, Honesty, Know-How, Knowledge, Paradox, Post-Truth, Pragmatism, Science, Theory, Truth, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

STAY INFORMED

Read more articles like this. Sign up for our latest updates.

Upcoming Events

  1. Presentation schedule update

    January 15 @ 08:00 - May 26 @ 17:00
  2. The Way that Women Deal with Global Issues

    January 20 @ 13:30 - 15:30

View All Events ...

Recent Articles

  • Developing policies that reduce Inequality and improve Genuine Wealth including Climate Justice
  • CANADIAN CLIMATE 2021-01-15
  • Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate

Topics

Monthly Archives

Connect with us

Membership

Apply for membership.
 

Apply

Donate

CACOR is a registered charity.

Donate

Details

  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • FAQ
  • Sitemap

© 2021 · Canadian Association for the Club of Rome · Built by Creative Integration Web Design · Contact Us

Copyright © 2021 · CACOR Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in