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Inductive Turkeys Get Their Bacon Cooked At Christmas

As the last remnants of Christmas turkey fall to sandwich and soup, forget not Bertrand Russell’s musings on the fate of turkeys subscribing  to Francis Bacon’s philosophy of inductivist scientific reasoning. They don’t see it coming (photo WikiCommons) On his first day at the farm, the turkey noted he was fed at 9.00 am.  After this procedure had been repeated [...]