We have discussed before (and in detail here) how Fisher, inventor of the wee P of which scientists boast (“Look how small my P is!” shouted the excited scientist), was deeply influenced […]
David Stove Exposes Karl Popper’s Wee P!
The Don’t Just Stand There, Do Something Fallacy — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong
In the talk I gave about The Most Infamous Coronavirus Model, the one that caused many governments to gleefully embrace panic, I made the point that an implicit premise in the model […]
Racism Is Rational
“Racism”, the late-great philosopher David Stove told us in his gorgeous essay “Racial and Other Antagonisms” (found, e.g., here), is “one of those words which are so perfectly foolish that they are […]
How To Increase Rats & Tr4nnies
There’s an old story, I believe repeated in essence in more than one locale, of some local government offering a bounty on rats. Experts believed that citizens hunting the disgusting beasties would […]
Malthus’s Proof That Welfare Leads To Increasing Need For Welfare Reexamined
This is an updated version of an original post that ran 3 February 2014. Here is a sketch of Malthus’s argument that official government beneficence causes the problem it seeks to cure. […]
Efforts At Officially Defining Scientific Disinformation Continue
Phrases like scientifically valid, the late great philosopher David Stove taught us, signal distress. A writer wants to say valid, a strength word, but somehow can’t bring himself to this higher point, […]
Do Most People Enter Philosophy Already Atheist?
I am now only months behind in answering emails. I have a string of excellent questions from readers that I will try to get to at weeks’ end. From reader S: “I […]
Young Anon Seeks Advice On Whether To Become A Mathematician
Got this terrific email with interesting questions from Anon. The obvious perspicacity of its young author caused my heart to soar like a hawk, and to have renewed hope of Renewal. Which, […]
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