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The Appeal To Non-Authority Fallacy — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong

Today, an excerpt of Chapter 6 from Everything You Believe Is Wrong. This again is only a brief excerpt from a long chapter which investigates our fascination with celebrities, ignorant…

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Free First Chapter in Everything You Believe Is Wrong, The Book All Woke Fear

Who is this book for? Before I answer that excellent question, let me first show why the book is necessary, if you have a moment. Watch this thirty second clip.…

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Austin Ruse’s ‘Fake Science: Exposing the Left’s Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data’

Austin Ruse kindly sent me a copy of his new Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data, a book readers of this blog will take…

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The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels Reviewed

People first Just in time for the Federally-Recognized-Holiday-Of-25-December-That-Shall-Go-Unnamed we have a suitable gift for science deniers everywhere. Alex Epstein's The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels Science deniers? Yes, sir. Those…

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Party’s Over, Baby: The Twilight of Abundance Reviewed

The Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short by David Archibald, visiting Fellow Institute of World Politics. I am a curmudgeon, which…

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Author Says Machines Will Take Over The World

At the Singularity awaits The Beast. Or so says James Barrat in Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (Yours Truly only read the free…

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What appeal to authority means and what it doesn’t

This article is meant to be the first is a small series of demonstrations of how not and how to argue for or against climate activism. The level of argumentation…

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Podcast Radio Show #5: Independence Day!

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_21nov2008_0005.mp3[/podcast] On Today's Show: Only 5 minutes! A brief show today, containing one Earth-shattering announcement... Big changes ...As of December 1st, you, my faithful audience members, will be my official…

Rudolph Harrier on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
The other day I was at a statistics talk about a proposed method for meta-analysis, specifically for combining p-values in…
hudbwu on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
I've been informed that the old-timey literacy tests were meant to disenfrenchise black people by being deliberately near-impossible to pass,…
Dana on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
No matter for whom you vote, a politician gets elected.
Milton Hathaway on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
We engineers deal often with root cause analysis. It's usually deceptively harder than it initially seems for any given failure…
Cloudbuster on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
Paul: "Cloudbuster: check q. 6" Yeah, I thought that one was poorly worded, too. You can interpret it in at…