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Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence
September 1, 2026
Fertility Fears Overblown: Tiny Shift in Childless Rate Saves The Species
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A New Kind Of University: Your Comments Wanted
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Bad Black Health Blamed On Slavery
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Is Moral Certainty Possible?
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We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research
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Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind
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AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
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You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday
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Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200
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The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
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Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
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Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
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Death By Organ Donation
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
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Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
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Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
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University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing
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The Equality Paradox
July 9, 2026
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Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence

Posted by By Briggs September 1, 2026
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Fertility Fears Overblown: Tiny Shift in Childless Rate Saves The Species

Posted by By Briggs August 27, 2026
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Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails
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Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails

I sat down with Wilbur Salazar, who runs the brand new Faith Deposited site and YouTube channel, and had a chat about the philosophy of science and religion. Well, I…
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Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity
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Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…
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Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky
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Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky

Ressentiment and hurt feelings over lose of prestige has hit many academic scientists hard. The ebbing away of respect and deference was not something they prepared for. They were taught,…
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The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
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The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell

My son had the opportunity to go skiing at a hotspot out west. One of the first things he was asked was if he had a ski lift pass looped…
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Class 79: Time Series Example
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Class 79: Time Series Example

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…
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The Importance Of Not Making Decisions
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The Importance Of Not Making Decisions

Here, I promise you, was "breaking" news from not long ago: "United States Representative Tim Burchett says aliens could be stationed in five or six underwater bases off the U.S.…
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Don’t Take The ‘Long-Covid’ Alzheimer’s Study Seriously

Headline (one of many): "Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain: new study". Story: The effects of long COVID rage on. Over 20 million Americans are believed…
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AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest Panic
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AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest Panic

Here is a typical calm well-reasoned take on computer models (a.k.a. AI): I pointed out: "Stop terrorizing yourself. AI is just computer models, hooked to the wall by cords that…
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    Let me say something stupid cuz I'm not vey bright - to me it is an indication of the Existence…

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    I was hoping you wrote about race, because I wanted to hand you a quote, since long ago, but I…

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    DIE, put this way, sounds an awful lot like Lysenkoism.

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    As I'm fond of pointing out, a 100% of the reason you're a man and not a monkey is genetics.…

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    Not convinced you're encroaching on the functions of the universities with this initiative. Seems to me the primary functions of…

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