{"id":2280,"date":"2009-09-13T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2009-09-13T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T20:53:29","slug":"bloggingheads-diavlog-with-craig-callendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Bloggingheads Diavlog With Craig Callender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new Bloggingheads Diavlog up today, where philosopher of science Craig Callender and I discuss the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/brainwaveweb.com\/diavlogs\/22449\">Philosophy and the String Wars<\/a>.  Regular readers of the blog will just get to see me make the same points as usual in video format, more interesting might be to hear Craig&#8217;s point of view on some of this. We agree about the anthropic principle.<\/p>\n<p>Those who follow science-blogging controversies will have heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/08\/31\/bye-to-bloggingheads\/\">certain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2009\/09\/01\/bloggingheads-and-the-old-challenges-of-new-tools\/\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/09\/04\/bloggingheads-capo-non-grata\/\">bloggers<\/a> have announced a boycott of Bloggingheads, based on the fact that two creationist\/ID types had recently been allowed to participate. I heard about this after agreeing to do this latest one, and initially the idea of such a boycott sounded to me completely bizarre.  Why would anyone boycott a media outlet that produces a lot of serious and interesting content on the grounds that two out of its hundreds of participants were cranks (I can&#8217;t think of ANY completely crank-free media outlet)?  So, I recently read much of the on-line discussion, including that of the original boycotters, some non-boycotters (<a href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/lw\/17e\/why_im_staying_on_bloggingheadstv\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2009\/09\/k-is-for-kerfuffle.html\">here<\/a>), and the discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/diavlogs\/22300\">here<\/a> with Bloggingheads founder Robert Wright, who put up a clarification of the organization&#8217;s policy <a href=\"http:\/\/brainwaveweb.com\/forum\/showthread.php?p=128670&#038;#post128670\">here<\/a>.  After wading through all this, I concluded that, yes, the boycott thing is completely bizarre.  For one take on the question that I pretty much fully agree with, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevens.edu\/csw\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/csw\/?p=860\">this one<\/a> by John Horgan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new Bloggingheads Diavlog up today, where philosopher of science Craig Callender and I discuss the topic of Philosophy and the String Wars. 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