Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.

There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.