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Big Muscles: Experts Know Best
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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Edge’s Last Question
The guy who runs Edge, the site we've had some fun with over the years, has decided he's run out of interesting questions. So to go out with a noise,…
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Musk’s Matrix Is Malodorous
"Elon Musk has said that there is only a 'one in billions' chance that we're not living in a computer simulation." Since all probability is conditional on the assumed premises,…
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Clean Razors For Women Who Cut Themselves? What Happened to First Do No Harm?
Physicians long ago abandoned the Hippocratic Oath, for at least the reason that its call for physicians not to cause harm went against the modern acceptance, and even boasting, of…
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A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux
After posting yesterday's article, Jerry Coyne Doesn't Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne's. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the…
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Do I Exist? (Does Russia?) Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Do I exist? Great question. And does that rock over there really exist? Another great question. For idiots. Yet those are the two questions that have tortured all of the…
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Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity (And Catholicism)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogcast Summary Against Modern Thought to bring you breaking news: Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity. In what should have been…
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From Paganism To Christianity To Deism To Malleism
Pagans---the word is not an insult---believed that God was immanent. If you've seen Star Wars, you have it. "The Force" was God, and The Force was everything. To quote that…
