About Kenneth W. Krause

Mountain biking in Copper Harbor, Michigan.

If we hope to achieve meaningful social progress or perhaps even survive as a species, we’ll have to get significantly more serious about our methods of thinking and communicating our thoughts.  That is, humans generally must adopt a consistently rational, empirical, and disciplined attitude and perspective on all important social issues and most, if not all, aspects of daily life. We all possess these abilities — I know we do because I’ve witnessed every kind of person stop, listen, and look both ways before crossing busy intersections!

As a contributing editor and science columnist for the Skeptical Inquirer magazine (and a frequent contributor to Skeptic magazine) I reported on a wide variety of scientific topics from genetics and gene-editing, the biology of alleged “race,” epigenetics, medicine, and neuroscience to psychology, paleoanthropology, exercise, and nutrition.  As a contributing editor and books columnist for the Humanist magazine, I explored a variety of political, historical, scientific, legal, and religious topics, and reviewed hundreds of serious new non-fiction titles.  My published articles have also been featured in various university level textbooks and instructional materials (visit with me on facebook as well).

A graduate magna cum laude of both the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Drake University Law School, I was also certified by the American Council on Exercise as a Personal Trainer, Sports Conditioning Specialist, and Senior Fitness Specialist.  Although I was not born a particularly talented person in terms of athletic abilities, my physical conditioning has long been at least as important to me as my cognitive and intellectual conditioning.  After all, the body keeps the mind on a very short leash.

Snow biking to the bluff’s summit with my wife.